- The note announcing Wikipedia
- Here’s the full text of the note: “http://www.wikipedia.com/ Humor me. Go there and add a little article. It will take all of five or ten minutes. –Larry”
- Linus’ original post about Linux
- He did a bit better than expected: “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu)… I’d like to know what features most people would want.. suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them 🙂
- From the NSA: CryptoKidsâ„¢ America’s Future Codemakers & Codebreakers
- “Hi Kids! Welcome to the NSA/CSS Kids’ page. We’re the CryptoKids and we love cryptology…it’s so cool…we try to figure out what other people are writing about by breaking their codes. It’s a lot of fun.”
- Alan Kay: The Early History of Smalltalk
- Pixar’s tightknit culture is its edge – (37signals)
- “At the heart of this effort is Pixar University: ‘The operation has more than 110 courses: a complete filmmaking curriculum, classes on painting, drawing, sculpting and creative writing.'”
- JSAGE: publishing refereed mathematical software in SAGE
- A journal which allows one to publish refereed code into the SAGE project. The citation format looks like it needs a bit of work, but this is a good step. Wonder if it shows up in places like Google Scholar and Web of Science? That’s crucial.
- Computing large Bernoulli numbers with Sage
- The discussion in the development forum as the open source Sage project pass Mathematica as a tool for computing Bernoulli numbers.
- James on Software: 50% time
- You’ve heard of Google’s 20% time, i.e., letting employees work on their own projects 20% of the time. Here’s an employer who’s trialling 50% time!
- Cool Tool: It’s All Too Much
- “We were reminded that life is not about stuff; it’s about possibilities, which the right tools can enable. For a world of expanding stuff, this book is the necessary anti-stuff tool.”
- Doc Searls Weblog · Pulling the scales from our whys
- “While it’s hard to imagine a world where a free market is not “your choice of silo” or “your choice of walled garden”, imagining one is necessary if we wish to fulfill the original promise of the Net and the Web.”
- Ira Glass on Storytelling
- Ira Glass on the benefits of practice
- Anarchogeek: The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities
- “The shift of online communities resembles urban development and the gentrification of many hip neighborhoods. The artists and hackers move in first… We are creating virtual communities and then by our very own actions gentrifying them!”
- scottberkun.com » Why project managers get no respect
- Insightful rant – it’s better to define a job more by it’s output than by what’s actually done day-to-day. That’s why “Movie Director” is better than “Project Manager”.
- A new model for open access: the pyramid scheme « Culture Matters
- Bentham publishers appears to be spamming random people to ask them to edit journals.
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