The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use.

Grossest thing of the year: hot dog infused vodka. If the vodka doesn’t make you honk, the hotdogs will.

Dell call center turnover exceeds 300% per year. Dude, that’s a good reason not to get a Dell.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is terrorism of the rich — Peter Ustinov

Ubuntu considers replacing its System-V startup system. It’s interesting to see this progress.

Wikipedia has a comparison of issue tracking systems.

Ajaxio, a prototype ‘visio’ web application using Ajax and SVG. I was wondering a while back if this approach could work (I guess so).

Threads, Tasks, Coroutines, Processes, and Events, and why threads are not the only sane path to concurrent processing. I’ve known this for years, but I find may developers have not thought enough about the other approaches. ACM Queue also has a piece on Threads Without the Pain.

The Official Rules of Calvinball , the fully documented rules and procedures for playing Calvin’s classic comic childhood game. I should really sit down and read my old Calivin & Hobbes books again, I forgot how funny Watterson can be.

How Apple’s Firmware Leapfrogs BIOS PCs, a technical overview of how Apple’s firmware works.