The Last Question -- Isaac Asimov
The Last Question a short story by Isaac Asimov
Rifters CC-free series
Eastern Writings (and writings written in Eastern styles, such as tanka, haiku, etc.)
The Collars (on AI)
2005 Essay on Political Talk Radio
Basquiat's Broken Window Fallacy
Pornography Drives Technology: Why Not to Censor the Internet (an essay)
Google Reader - Featured Reading Lists
A Visual History of Loudness in Popular Music | FlowingData (A.K.A. The Loudness War)
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 @ Project Gutenberg
The history of the smiley face symbol | Art and design | The Guardian
Smiley Face Is Serious to Company - New York Times
To His Coy Mistress: Study Guide (keywords: worlds enough and time, world enough and time)
LA Highway Sign Fixed by Motorist
Reference Model for Drawing Human Figures
Virtual Dave :: A Pox On Your Freedom
Welcome to the Orion's Arm Universe Project: A Collective "Worldbuilding" Effort
Poetry Lovers' Page - Rudyard Kipling: Dane-Geld
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Omnilingual, by H. Beam Piper
Why Socialism? :: Monthly Review (by Albert Einstein)
Interesting English Grammatical Constructions
A good example of a dangling participle follows. Comprised of silica and alumina dust, ESO astronomers have been able to image the nebula in infrared wavelengths for the first time.
Manna, Chapter 1, by Marshall Brain
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories
Chinese Cultural Studies: Dao De Jing/Tao Te Ching: Selections
Petitinvention | Designs for the Better World
The Skills of Xanadu (@ Google Books)
Robert A. Heinlein: All you zombies
The Chaos, a poem by Gerard Nolst Trenité
7 Ways to Say "ough" | EnglishClub
Read, I, Pencil | Library of Economics and Liberty
Video and Movies
fay A Poem by Lulu Krause (Youtube)
Validation (16 min YouTube video)
CBC News - TIFF (TIFF Openers, 1976-2009)
Adjectival Order: Why A "Big Red Balloon", not a "Red Big Balloon"? - YouTube
Mele Kalikimaka: Why You Can't Say "Christmas" in Hawaiian - YouTube
Gender Neutral Pronouns: They're Here, Get Used To Them - YouTube
Fantastic Features We Don't Have In The English Language - YouTube
Science Fiction
Meat (on extraterrestrial intelligence)
We still haven't found extraforgostnic life | Journal of mcgrew (92797)
Visual Art
Picture of an Annular Eclipse Through Trees
Towards a 3D Mandelbrot: A Mandelbulb
State of the Internet Image 2009
PeteSearch: How to split up the US (with Facebook Data)
So long, old friend... : On a New Road (R.I.P. Sun)
Nightclub photography: you're doing it wrong. | jwz
Calligraphy, Letter Style and the Forms of Letters
Evolution of Latin Characters from Phoenician
Symbol in Syriac may be world's first question mark | Reuters
Index of languages by writing system
Music
Jonathan Coulton (Mandelbrot Set)
Perfect Sound Forever: Jonathan Coulton interview
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists
24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed
Books I Own
Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford, Matt Webb (ISBN: 0596007795)
Mac OS X Leopard (The Missing Manual) (ISBN-13: 978-0596529529)
Review of Bash Cookbook
Brain Fuel: 199 Mind-Expanding Inquiries into the Science of Everyday Life
Autogenerating Writing
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia
TeX & LaTeX