Rejecta Mathematica is a real open access online journal publishing only papers that have been rejected from peer-reviewed journals in the mathematical sciences. The inaugural issue of Rejecta Mathematica is now available!
Practical Reusable Unix Software (PDF), “This book describes a collection of software of a sort that people have known was needed for years, but has been neglected.” (Has a nice part on Unix shell history, too.)
Attack of the Clones, by James Noble and Brian Foote. “This paper presents implementations of a selection of the Design Patterns in Self, and investigates the differences between their implementations in Self compared with other object-oriented programming languages.”
The Fleet Architecture, slides by Ivan Sutherland. “Fleet puts the programmer firmly in charge of the most costly resource, communication, instead of in charge of the arithmetic and logical resources that are now almost free. Fleet treats arithmetic and logical operations as side effects of where the programmer sends data.”
I Know It Is Possible To Live With Zero Money, Abundantly, “How? Because it’s happening to me, just as it’s happening to ants and deer and slugs and sparrows and bacteria and atoms and galaxies.” (And I like the answer to FAQ #19.)
Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? (PDF), by Tom DeMarco.
b[lac]k, a blog by Benjamin Black. (If you know of other Trivium installations, tell me.)
Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic.
My Life Offline, Aaron Swartz reports.
Big Huge Thesaurus, Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes (oh my!).
There, I fixed it, epic kludges and jury rigs.
61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list