web pearls

programming languages

• The lambda files.
• What's lambda anyway?... in fact, just a way to mock a mockingbird.
• All you ever wanted to know about those parentheses, and then more.
• The book every programmer should view.
• A comic way to learn lisp.
• Lisp, its history and users.
• E.W. Dijkstra on the nature of computing.

unix

• How to design a kitchen sink.
• Not your father's tiling windows.
• Are GUIs really user friendly?.
• Socrates visits the gates of Hell.

science

• Axiom of choice's backdoor.
• The hapless peasant Oz learns General Relativity (or are you in the mood for a serious tutorial?).
• Euclid by colors.

trivia

• The first web page ever published.
• Security flaws in Middle Earth.

(See also my my del.icio.us collection.)