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DISCLAIMER: The links below are provided for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect my views, opinions, or philosophies, nor those of Texas State University-San Marcos or its Computer Science Department. For more information, please visit http://www.txstate.edu/disclaimer. The contents of the pages linked from this page are copyrighted by their respective site content owners.

SECOND DISCLAIMER: I am a passionate Linux user. This collection of links may reflect a certain bias that is not totally sympathetic to Microsoft. Please understand that I may be pro-Linux, but I am more staunchly pro-consumer coice.

• Tutorial on creating tiny ELF executables in Linux (Brian Raiter) Jul 2008
• Asperger's and IT: Dark Secret or Open Secret? (Tracy Mayor / ComputerWorld) Jun 2008
• Condoleezza Rice hanging out with rock band KISS? Here's the photo! (Scott Thill/Wired.com) Jun 2008
• Starship Dimensions - an online museum of fictitious spacecraft (Jeff Russell) May 2008
• Stevey's Blog Rants: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns Mar 2008
• CBS affiliate's "technical glitch" knocks station off the air during key 60 Minutes segment (New York Times editorial) Feb 2008
• Net pioneers trash Comcast's P2P traffic treatment (Anne Broache at CNET) Feb 2008
• HTML special character reference table (Chami.com Tips) Feb 2008
• Earliest uses of variable mathematical symbols Feb 2008
• Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), Second Edition (Julius Smith III, Stanford University) Jan 2008
• Fourier transforms explained (with lots of images) (Steven Lehar, Boston University) Jan 2008
• Electronic voting machines - can they be trusted? (Clive Thompson, New York Times) Jan 2008
• Boeing 787 may be vulnerable to on-board hacker attack (Kim Zetter/Wired.com) Jan 2008
• The Evolutionary Brain Glitch That Makes Terrorism Fail (Commentary by Bruce Schneier in Wired.com) Nov 2007
• Winners of the Wired News Saddest-Cubicle contest (Wired.com) Nov 2007
• Computer virus involves using social engineering with sexy images to attempt defeating captchas (Fox News) Nov 2007
• Remarkably accurate video produced in 1967 predicting online shopping using computers in 1999 (Requires Adobe Flash plugin) (Google Video) Sep 2007
• It's Official - Apple Is the New Microsoft (Mike Elgan, ComputerWorld) Sep 2007
• Microsoft's tactics in getting OOXML standardized (Wired.com) Sep 2007
• Supercomputer proves Rubik's Cube can be solved in not more than 26 moves (BBC) Aug 2007
• Air traffic woes near JFK airport have ripple effect on U.S. aviation (USAToday) Jul 2007
• Accidental denial of service attack caused by flawed routers (Dave Plonka, University of Wisconsin-Madison) May 2007
• Software patent absurdity - Microsoft's Patent on "IsNot" operator (USPTO) May 2007
• Innovate, not litigate (Sun Microsystems' strategy in the face of Linux's success) (Jonathan Schwartz's blog) May 2007
• When Think Tanks Attack - public policy organizations spreading the FUD (Tim Lambert's Blog) May 2007
• Animator Vs. Animation 2 (by Alan Becker) (requires Adobe Flash Player Plugin) Apr 2007
• Dragging the C++ programmers halfway to Lisp (PaulGraham.com) Apr 2007
• Found AP diary adds new clue to solving Amelia Earhart mystery (Fox News) Apr 2007
• Hackers and Painters - Defense of the argument that hacking is an art form (PaulGraham.com) Mar 2007
• Indirection is NOT Abstraction (Zed Shaw's blog) Feb 2007
• I'm no Anna Nicole Smith fan, but this article summarizing her life kind of saddened me (USAToday.com) Feb 2007
• The Gustav Mahler online library - he's my favorite classical composer (Andante.com) Jan 2007
• The worst Web page in the World (webpagesthatsuck.com) Dec 2006
• Worst political Web sites (CNET News.com) Oct 2006
• The Microsoft Invincibility Myth (Roughlydrafted.com) Oct 2006
• 1990-1995: Why the World Went (Microsoft) Windows (Roughlydrafted.com) Oct 2006
• Interesting hits from Google Code Search (kottke.org) Oct 2006
• RISC vs. CISC (Stanford University) Sep 2006
• Linux Program Library HOWTO (dwheeler.com) Aug 2006
• Complete failure of the software engineering process: $170 million FBI computer system discarded (Washington Post) Aug 2006
• Who Is Morph The Cat? Aug 2006
• Antivirus program falsely labels liturgy program file as spyware - Churches upset (BBC) Aug 2006
• Halley's Comet orbit simulation Java applet (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Jul 2006
• President Lincoln's patent - the only patent ever issued to a U.S. President (National Museum of American History) Jul 2006
• President Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (PBS TeacherSource) Jul 2006
• Linux vs. Windows Viruses (The Register) Jul 2006
• Windows Vista is an example of the Broken Windows Theory (Philip Su/MSDN Blogs) Jun 2006
• Floating-point number representation in computer science (Cygnus Software) Jun 2006
• What the Linux Kernel's mission in life is (Linus Torvalds, as quoted in lwn.net) Jun 2006
• Windows Zombies are most prevalent PC threat (News.com) Jun 2006
• NULL vs. zero (in C/C++ programming) (Lwn.net) May 2006
• DRM: A load of C.R.A.P. (requires Adobe flash plugin) (ZDNet.com) May 2006
• Aeronautical sectional charts with Google Maps-like interface May 2006
• Everyone wants to 'own' your PC (Wired.com) May 2006
• Improv Everywhere Mission: Best Buy May 2006
• Disturbing opinion of Microsoft from Paul Thurrott's Winsupersite.com May 2006
• Priority inversion in the Mars Pathfinder (and how it was fixed) (Mike Jones/Microsoft) Apr 2006
• IT security expert Steve Gibson theorizes that the Microsoft metafile vulnerability was an intentional back door (grc.com) Mar 2006
• DUI defense lawyers challenge breath test (because the brethalyzer software code is a trade secret) (USAToday) Mar 2006
• Lessons from the Sony CD DRM episode (PDF) (Princeton University) Mar 2006
• Tcl the misunderstood Mar 2006
• Real-life Simpsons intro (requires Adobe Flash plugin) (Youtube) Mar 2006
• LAMP lights the way in open-source (CNET News.com) Mar 2006
• Google-Mart (PBS) Feb 2006
• Programmers' personalities from A to Z Jan 2006
• Beam me out of this death trap, Scotty (Washington Monthly) Jan 2006
• Explaining 30 years of fudge, or $118 per payload-pound (Spacedaily.com) Jan 2006
• Is the U.S. already bankrupt? Jan 2006
• Some safety and reliability questions about DRM (Groklaw) Jan 2006
• Madden 2006 bug makes itsy-bitsy lineman (screenshot 2) (CNET News.com) Dec 2005
• Madden 2006 bug makes itsy-bitsy lineman (screenshot 1) (CNET News.com) Dec 2005
• A false Wikipedia 'biography' (USAToday) Dec 2005
• Bush's second-term gambles yet to pay off (BBC) Nov 2005
• Sony, rootkits, and DRM gone too far (Sysinternals.com) Nov 2005
• The Fallen Legion: Casualties of the Bush Administration Oct 2005
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