links

This is my links-o-rama. There are many like it. This is mine.

Documentation

Online documentation and developer resources.

• Java 2 SDK (v.1.3) official online reference.
• Artima - Java topics, including the excellent JVM Corner .
• Webmonkey - classic web authoring and design tutorials.
• XULPlanet - XUL tutorial.
• Dr Dobbs Journal - including Programmer's resources.
• Developer.com - general resources.
• Sitescooper documentation - downloading web pages for palmtops.
• Emacs FAQ.

Some other useful references.

• Britannica Online - where the Encyclopaedia Britannica meets the web.
• Webster's Dictionary.
• Planetary pixmaps - high resolution!
• Project Gutenberg and Textfiles.com - etexts by the famous and not so famous.
• How Stuff Works.
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.

Interesting

Web sites that are worth visiting several times.

• Hyperbolic tilings in Java, by Arnaud Chéritat.
• Lisp - Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to...
• The Nine Planets - A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System by Bill Arnett.
• Fourmilab - John Walker's home.
• Bruce Sterling Online - index of works available online.
• Silva Rhetoricae.
• fravia.org - Fjalar Ravia's web-searching lore.

The following links point to online articles which, at one time or another, I found interesting or intriguing. I sometimes refer people to them. They are in no particular order.

• The case of the 500-mile email.
• Le petit Nicolas en thèse (English version).
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code - Roedy Green.
• Alan Sokal's collection of "Social Text" articles.
• Elements of Style - William Strunk, Jr.
• Rhetoric of advertisement: a "Marlboro Classic" advertisement analyzed.
• Engines of Creation - Eric K. Drexler's original nanotech vision.
• There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom - Richard Feynman's influential paper.
• As We May Think - Vannevar Bush, 1945.
• The Anti-Mac Interface - what if WIMP didn't exist.
• The Cluetrain Manifesto - pondering the web.
• The X-Windows Disaster - history and critique of X.
• The Hacker Crackdown - Bruce Sterling.
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Eric S. Raymond.