LaTeX Spoken Here! - Asymptotia

I'm not sure which is geekier: the fact that someone implemented LaTeX in their blog software, or the amount of people posting equations in the comments thread. You decide.

YouTube - Atari 800 in store demo

Pretty cool video of the in-store demo from Atari. I remember seeing this when I was younger and didn't know what household management and personal finance really meant. You have to wonder, is there anything this machine couldn't do for you? (Besides survive the …

In Joel Spolsky's article "Choices = Headaches", Joel went through the design of the Windws Shutdown sequence and whittled it down to, basically, "Let me go away from the computer". He wondered what could possibly have created the confusing mess that seems to have become part of the Windows shutdown mess …

BBC NEWS | Technology | User paid to uninstall Windows XP

Methinks I should have gone this route on JoDee's laptop. I still have the shrinkwrapped rescue discs. I never even gave the thing a chance to boot Windows XP. Same with Sarah's Laptop (HAL) and her new machine (Harry Potter). :) That …

Java Is Free

This is the best news I think I've heard all year. (And yes, young padwan, that's free as in speech )