- xkcd – Exploits of a mom – There’s fun in naming your kids!
- OAuth ? An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. – “An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.”
- Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 — article about software localization – search.cpan.org – A good article on the difficulties of providing really good translations in software apps.
- Software bits – Lisp libraries by Walter C. Pelissero.
- Burningbird » The Parable of the Languages – “If programming languages could speak, really speak, not just crunch bytes and stream bits, they would have much to say that is both wise and profound.”
- What Is Truth? – Worse Than Failure – We need more boolean values.
- Programming – You’re doing it completely wrong – Via xach.
- A sometimes minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial for Linux / i386 systems. – “Until you understand how FORTH is written, you?ll have only a very superficial understanding of how to use it.” (via Raganwald)
- Sam Kass’s Blog – Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard – Oh, the complexity!
- Catalan number – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – I had never heard of these ones.
- Chris Ball: : Favourite Unicode Codepoints – Some really weird letters… wait, no, symbols. No, glyphs! Well, Unicode Codepoints, in fact.
- Project proposal: Multi-Language VM – A project to add extensions to the JVM so it can support more languages.
- TNR Online | What the F***? (1 of 3) (print) – A good introduction to the history and psychology of swearing.
- The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World | Cracked.com – NSFW – I think I will never eat again.
- Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | RFC 5023 – The Atom Publishing Protocol – Finally, the spec is finished. Congrats to all the participants!
- Scalad – a salad of Scala abstractions – A very good idea, should have one for every language.