Junk thoughts of Curious Idiot

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-networking-stack/?ca=dgr-lnxw01lnxNetStack

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/18-tricks-to-make-new-habits-stick.html

http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html

http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/mirror/biomorph/

http://www.onelife.com/

http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything

http://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/Richard-Feynman-Challenger-Disaster-Software-Engineering

http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2008/05/powers-of-ten-in-years.html

http://www.yendor.com/programming/unix/apue/

http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=tough-choices-how-making&sc=WR_20080722

http://humanscience.wikia.com/wiki/Worst_Predictions

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/22/opinion/oe-shermer22

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1006624

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=free-will-vs-programmed-brain

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read

http://weboflove.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/quality-of-life-vs-standard-of-living/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=set-in-our-ways

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=one-world-many-minds We are used to thinking of humans as occupying the sole pinnacle of evolutionary intelligence. That's where we're wrong. Complex brains and sophisticated cognition have arisen multiple times in independent lineages of animals during the earth’s evolutionary history.

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090111-creating-life.html

http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/news/seminars/Schrodinger/Lecture3.html

http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/news/seminars/Schrodinger/index.html

http://www.intothecool.com Book by Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan. Intersting theory about "What is life" and other complex processes. Slightly different from Schroniger's theory of entropy and life.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/computer_data_storage_through_ages

http://hawking.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8164060.stm

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-08/st_best

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=try-a-little-powerlessness&sc=WR_20090811

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3318/

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3323/

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/martina-devlin/why-its-our-gross-national-happiness-that-counts-1888824.html

http://www.cio.com.au/slideshow/319119/slideshow_cio_blast_from_past_-_60_years_cryptography/

http://neuroph.sourceforge.net/image_recognition.html

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3461/

http://www.scientificblogging.com/rogue_neuron/what_makes_genius

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3844291/Are-Software-Developers-Naturally-Weird.htm

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1231

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/11/48444-you-dont-know-jack-about-software-maintenance/fulltext

http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2009/11/awesome-by-proxy-addicted-to-fake.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6680989/Meat-grown-in-laboratory-in-world-first.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123083704.htm

http://www.omninerd.com/articles/Coding_Practices

http://www.publicola.net/2009/12/11/the-killer-app-of-1900-2/

http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/15/iphone-xerox-google-technology-cio-network-gadgets.html?partner=alerts

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3593/

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/12/23/why-programmers-are-not-paid-in-proportion-to-their-productivity/

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/the-best-and-the-worst-tech-of.html

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/10/42360-retrospective-an-axiomatic-basis-for-computer-programming/fulltext

http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=3513

http://discovermagazine.com/photos/frankenhuman-9-lab-animals-add-up-to-1-person

http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3657/

http://www.codersatwork.com/

http://www.thehumanbrainproject.com/

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/Introduction.html

http://futureseek.freehostia.com/books.htm

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/what-is-time/ "Objects like us depend on the arrow of time just for our existence"

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3755/

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/molecular_manufacturing_presents_huge_opportunities_risks/ Chris Phoenix, from CRN, explores the mind-blowing implications of emerging nanomanufacturing—the exciting, the frightening, and the in between—in a conversation with the Independent .

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3742/ "When we feel like we’re making a free spontaneous decision, very often there’s an unconscious brain process that has already made the decision beforehand." I hope one day everybody comes to understand the above statement. "But rather than focusing on the erroneousness of some of our causal ascriptions related to the feeling of free will, why not focus on the joy of transcending one’s individual boundaries via experiencing unity with the larger entropy-reducing processes of which we sometimes form the focus?" This above statement must be to make sure that others are not misguided by the determinism or rather the control less predicament :-)

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3732/ Most of us simply exist, never asking why it should be this way or how it might be different. We are either too hungry, too busy, or too afraid. The tiny fraction that does ask questions can’t agree on the answers, and anyway have no power to effect change.

http://www.wbur.org/npr/122322542 Scientists have theories, of course, and one of them is that when you experience something for the very first time, more details, more information gets stored in your memory. When it's the "first", there are so many things to remember. The list of encoded memories is so dense, reading them back gives you a feeling that they must have taken forever. But that's an illusion. "It's a construction of the brain," says Eagleman. "The more memory you have of something, you think, 'Wow, that really took a long time!'

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3727/ Predictive implications are part of science: science can tell us “If X happens, then expect Y to happen with a certain probability.” But science cannot tell us whether X is the “cause” of Y, versus them both habitually being part of some overall coordinated process. Our psychological use of causality is closely related to the feeling we have of “free will.” Understanding causality as a construct leads quickly to understanding “free will” as a construct. The two constructs reinforce and help define each other.