Whilst the puzzles here are mainly lateral thinking puzzles, they range from the image type puzzle shown here, through to riddles and other puzzles. Overall, they provide somewhere to exercise the brain muscle and have fun.
By Evan Miller. essay about how you can get paid to write great open-source software. If you're not a software developer, you should probably spend the next few minutes of your leisure time on a web page other than this one.
How to create applications that look right, behave properly, and fit into the GNOME user interface as a whole, covers specific advice on making effective use of interface elements, and the philosophy and general design principles behind GNOME interface.
By Oleg Krivtsov - Implementing Lucas-Kanade and Baker-Dellaert-Matthews image alignment algorithms (remember to check l8r freaking site changes the urls)
by the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center), covers four main areas - copyright questions - how to legally organize an open-source developers group - American patent law - U.S. trademark law
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On January 15, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in U.S. policy toward Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan.
by Mark Larson. "The most important thing to remember is to TIME your code. Trying different tricks might or might not speed up your code. So it is very important to time your code to see if you do get a speedup as you try each trick."
By: S Kokila "a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Coupled with it being relatively fast and having a very lenient license, it has gained a following among game developers ..."
the Future of the Theory, And The Generation of a Living World by Christopher Alexander presentation recorded live in San Jose, California, October, at The 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA).