Michael Abrash's classic Graphics Programming Black Book is now available free online at Dr.Dobbs. Beware, the graphics stuff itself is obsolete, but the optimization and general assembly programming info is still relevant.

An excellent resource for finding rare books.

Recently laid-off tech sector emloyees should not forget to fill out their 1040.com forms!

CoreWars, the antediluvian, abstract, assembly language version of RobotWars (for software nerds instead of hardware jocks) got more interesting when warriors were evolved instead of written. More here and here. Perhaps CoreWars@home will be next. :)

A computer language genealogy, in PDF format, and others.

"...the US law system has allowed for a decade the filing of patents for elementary software processes. The 30.000 software patents filed every year are now used to attack and eliminate independant software publishers or free software authors."
From: www.freepatents.org
Its aimed at Europeans, but is still very interesting and relevant.

Using Genetic Algorithms for Game AI

The One True Programming Editor wars continue... this time its settled in a paintball match! Guess which editor wins?

A rant about privacy.

Letting computers evolve a language.. Is this a step towards spontaneous development of an AI ?

See what happened on any particular day in Dr. Mac's Cultural Calendar.

How Power Shapes the News from FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting). Lots of blatant manipulation of the press is exposed here... as if the mainstream media weren't good enough lapdogs as it is... I guess the dogs have to get whipped in to shape sometimes. Check out the article to see which carots and sticks are being used on whom.

Things my girlfriend and I have argued about. Well, no, not me personally, but someone has... specifically the someone who wrote that web page.

"BlöödHag ... are dedicated to the promotion of literacy in a Heavy Metal format. All their songs are short speed metal bios of some of the greatest science fiction writers of all time. With songs such as "J.R.R. Tolkein and "Michael Moorcock" they will blow your illiterate ass right back to the library.."

NASA is secretly developing a Death Star underground!

The real-world problems of managing 40,000 bitmaps and textures to 3D models, sounds and music, and source code files for Age of Empires 2. I blame it on Microsoft! :) Seriously, though, they should have used Perforce.

A trackball designed for manipulating objects in a 3D virtual-reality space.

A trackball that scans your hand in infra-red for biometrics applications such as credit-card transactions. It seems to be an interesting alternative to fingerprints or retina scans.

Who wouldn't love a site dedicated to philosophical humor?

A talented artist's comic depiction of his obsession with chess.