Ball and chain to force children to study, I highly doubt this product will be big.

From Voodoo to GeForce: The Awesome History of 3D Graphics, a walk down memory lane for those of us who were present in the early days of the graphics card era.

"Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses"

teepeedee2, a really fast web server written in LISP.

A few thoughts on the role of software architects, insightful.

AlternativeTo, a community driven site that lists alternatives to applications.

iShoes, because the Segway wasn’t enough.

Code Monkey, a song about being a programmer by Jonathan Coulton.

How do you test a random number generator? Bill the Lizard of Stack Overflow fame gives us a very good rundown on random number generation.

The speed, size and dependability of programming languages, benchmarks run across 33 different programming languages and plotted based on four different characteristics.