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Some Favorite Links
My attempt at putting these links up is to have a small taxonomy of locations
I find particularly interesting, unusual, or useful. One of the most powerful
forms of Internet-enabled discovery comes from the serendipity of finding
a new site because it was linked to by a related site. Because these various
goodies here are described, you may have hit on this page via a search
engine, and you might find something cool that you weren't looking
for.
Ideas and Bloggish Things
- Ornery.org: The Ornery American. Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card's weekly political column.
- Management by Baseball: Blog which compares issues in pro baseball with general business management problems. Very clever.
- David Isen's blog: on telecom and internet. Plenty of insight.
- JOHO: Journal of Hyperlinked Organization. An amalgam of too much interesting internet stuff.
Interesting web-based applications and Java Applets
- Earth
Viewer: View a map of the Earth or view the Earth from the Sun, the
Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified
by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or
above various cities around the globe.
Economics
Software Design
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The
Selfish Class: Excellent paper on software design by Brian Foote and
Joseph Yoder. The paper compares the reuse and evolution of software objects
to genetic (Darwinian/Dawkins) evolution. The analogy is a bit of a stretch,
but the paper itself is excellent and contains many good ideas about how
to develop good software.
- Urvashi
Kauls' Taxonomy of Design Patterns
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James
Cusik's Taxonomy of Design Patterns
- WikiWikiWeb:
A Wiki server for design patterns. Wiki servers allow visitors to add and
edit content. Very cool. Good knowledge base for design pattern stuff.
Surfing (the traditional kind)
Miscellaneous Cleverness
- Adbusters.org: "...dedicated to
reinventing the outdated paradigms of our consumer culture..."
Forums
Meta: The Internet Itself
- World of Ends: What the Internet
Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else
- JOHO: Journal of Hyperlinked
Organization
Other Good Things
- Summer Science Program in Ojai, CA: An incredible 6-week summer program for high school students, where
they learn astronomy and astrophysics. I am an almuni, SSP class of 1981.
- Wikipedia: A wonderful "open-content" encyclopedia edited by web users
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