- The L-Curve
Massive inequality, communicated graphically
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Housework
Gendered division of labour in relationships
- Cradle to Cradle
Book about sustainablity; and an exciting physical artifact
- The Man Who Ate Everything
How do you learn to like new things?
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Can We Build A Star On Earth?
The case for fusion power
- Cultivation
Jason Rohrer's game about farming
- Launchball
Great puzzle game UI design
- 50 States
Name 50 states in 10 minutes
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How Children Fail How Children Learn
John Holt explains the problem and solution
- Sandra Dodd
Putting unschooling into practice
- John Taylor Gatto
History of the problems in the education system
- A Guide for Teaching Mathematics
Explanation of how not to lecture a maths course
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Collaborative Learning in Mathematics
How to improve mathematics teaching
- XMonad
Inspiring presentation on writing a window manager in Haskell
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Implementation of Functional Programming
Simon Peyton Jones's book, online
- How Regexes Work
Guide to implementing regexes - see also this
- RegexPal
Interactive regular expression builder
- CMU Natural Programming group
Interesting papers on improving the usability of programming
- Programming System for Children Designed For Usability
PhD thesis on how to build a programming system usable by young children
- The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin
Co-creator of the original Mac UI explains some big ideas in HCI
- Press On by Harold Thimbleby
How to use mathematical results to prove results about user interfaces
- Magic Ink by Bret Victor
A thought-provoking manifesto for the future of HCI
- Augmenting Human Intellect by Doug Engelbart
Seminal paper on HCI and the future of computing
- Alan Dix
Reliable source of interesting ideas
- The Supersizers Eat
An educational, historical, culinary comedy adventure
- Babylon 5 Lurker's Guide
Exhaustive encyclopedia of everything B5, including vast amounts of collected commentary by the series creator
- Daria
The story of growing up in the 1990s, lost and alone; all on youtube
- Whose Line Is It, Anyway?
Improvisational comedy
- You Are the Sky
A love story in n+1 parts.
- Rice Boy
Epic fantasy comic available online
- Absurd (NSFW)
Because I miss how websites used to be.
- Write, or Die
Aid to creativity
- Ableton
Composition tool and performance instrument (and now collaboration platform and development environment)
- Archive.org
Live music performance archive for hundreds of bands
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How To Mix a Pop Song From Scratch
Invaluable, easy to follow advice on making a musical recording
- Buzz
Old but fun dataflow system for programming electronic music
- Spotify
Ad or subscription funded music on demand
- The Fall by Tarsem
Unbelivable visual spectacle
- The Falls by Peter Greenaway
The nearest to reading an encyclopedia you can get in the medium of film
- Mysterious Skin
Vivid, dreamlike, beautiful - and disturbing.
- Breaking the Waves by Lars Von Trier
From the director who said "a film should be like a stone in your shoe", a film that is like being punched in the face for three hours
- Gerry by Gus Van Sant
Silence, wilderness and Arvo Pärt
- Firebug
No web developer should be without it
- IE Developer Toolbar
Less powerful equivalent of Firebug for IE6/7
- YSlow
Automatic advice on how to improve the perfomance of your website
- CSS 2.1 Specification
Official documentation for CSS
- Sexuality
- Adoption by same sex parents "Am I Gay?" Polyamory Neurobiology of sexuality
- Demos
- NLS Xerox Star NeXTStep 3 Sketchpad
- Graphics
- Tufte Grammar of Graphics William Cleveland History of visualization Patterns
- Fiction
- Manna Annals of the Western Shore Tiffany Aching Ender Stranger in a Strange Land
- Misc
- TED POSTnotes Rat Park A Class Divided The End of the World Cult Anthropology of YouTube