The following are some informative and/or interesting links :
- Slashdot
- "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters". A great site for getting to know the latest in the world of technology.
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia available in many langauges. The range of content available
is truly amazing. A daily visit to the Random Page
is a great way to learn something new each day.
- Google Labs
- Google's technology playground that showcases a few of their favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time.
- IBM Research: Ponder This
- Take a crack at the challenges posed by the guys at IBM Research. Also see the previous challenges and
their solutions. If you manage to solve one, you could see your name up there.
- How Stuff Works
- Wondering how something works? Check this site out.
- Internet Archive
- "The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form." The Internet
Achive stores multiple versions of webpages so that you can see what a website looked like some years ago. Use their Wayback Machine
to search for archived versions of your favourite website.
- The Museum of Unworkable Devices
- Perpetual motion machines, artistic impossibilities and much more. You must visit this site.
- GNU's Not Unix!
- Website of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- Computer Books on the Web
- A site to help you find computer books freely available on the web.
- Reflections on Trusting Trust
- The lecture given by Ken Thompson after receiving the Turing Award, considered the "Noble Prize of Computing",
in 1983. Every year, ACM presents the Turing Award
to 'an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature to the computing community that are
judged to be of lasting and major importance to the field of computing science.'
- The Home of Comics on the Web
- Lots of daily comic strips can be viewed online on this site. You can also visit
Ucomics.com for more fun. Some of my favourite strips are Luann, B.C.,
Dilbert, Wizard of ID, Garfield and Peanuts.
- Calvin and Hobbes
- You may be wondering why this link wasn't included in the previous listing. That is because Calvin and Hobbes
is special and deserves special mention.
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