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Links
- Due Diligence
Tim Oren's weblog (ex-coworker at Apple). - Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools
The Whole Earth Catalog lives on. - KineticWorld
Kinetic sculpture stuff. - Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion
The Foresight Institute. These are the people who coined the term "nanotechnology." - Raindrop
The blog for the Social Computing Group at Microsoft Research (where I used to work). - Sarah Allen's Weblog
Friend and ex-co-worker (at Apple and Macromedia). - Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
Of course. - Smart Mobs
Howard Rheingold. Always worth reading. - Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
Invited speakers every week, with many of the past talks available on streaming video. Everything from IC fabrication to Brian Eno. - TopCoder
If you love doing programming interviews mainly because they give you bite-sized coding problems that you have to solve in limited time, this site is for you. They do weekly coding contests that are quite well run.
Books
Babylon 5 - The Complete First Season
My favorite science fiction series. But you have to watch all five years to really get it.Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance
An exploration of some potential uses for nanotechnology. I wrote one of the chapters.Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
If Dickens were alive today, this would be published in blog format.Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon : Student Edition
Perhaps the best fiction ever written about intelligence.- Harry R. Chesley: Supercharging C With Assembly Language
I don't really recommend this book any more (it's very old and obsolete), but I wrote it, so I sort of have to include it here. Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Stephenson has developed a unique style of historical science-oriented fiction (does that make it "science fiction?" I'm not sure). This is the latest; first of a trilogy.Ollie Johnston: The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
A book every user interface designer should have (not to mention anyone who loved Disney animation).Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works
Good cog sci book.Vernor Vinge: True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
The original cyberspace story. (No longer in print by itself, so you have to buy this book that also has non-fiction essays; but some of them are interesting too.)
