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Peer-reviewed academic books and papers can be inaccurate and/or biased in some way. (Hopefully ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-review#Criticisms_of_peer_... ) less so than Wik…

Madonna is changing her business model too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7047969.stm

Why do people (sci-fi writers and scientists alike) generally seem to assume that extra-terrestrial life would be Earth-like life in Earth-like conditions?

I found this http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/cclass.html a useful, lighter, accompaniment to K&R when first learning C. Good luck. C is a great language for, er, implementing hig…

Domain specific graphical programming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max/Msp ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data

Acorn BBC Micro and Sinclair Spectrum. BASIC. Various Usbourne books. I wrote a text editor on my Spectrum in BASIC. It was too slow at keeping up with your typing, so I figured ou…

28, Last year of undergrad Philosophy and Maths