Good Reading

This page was originally intended as a way of keeping track of any good papers and articles, mostly computer-related, that I've downloaded from the Internet. However, that got to be more trouble than it's worth - I can always look up a paper using a search engine - so I've mostly been adding links to collections of papers and articles, e.g., magazines with on-line articles, E-zines, etc. There is lots of good stuff out there - enjoy!

Blogs

Computing-related blogs are found under Computers. Political blogs are found under Politics.

• Blogarama - "The Blog Directory".

• Blogger
• Blogger Forum

• AKMA's Random Thoughts
• C Street.us
• Cosmic Variance - "random samplings from a universe of ideas".
• "Out of the Crooked Timber of Humanity, No Straight Thing was Ever Made."
• Ed Brayton's Dispatches from the Culture Wars - "Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture".
• Edge - "to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society."
• Scarlett's Fastidious & Precise - "a lyric from Queen's song 'Killer Queen'".
• Fighting OCD - "A journal of my fight with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)".
• Steven D. Levitts and Stephen J. Dubner's Freakonomics - "The Hidden Side of Everything" (with guest bloggers).
• Elizabeth Measday's In for the Long Haul - caring for animals and seeking to become a veterinarian.
• Jamie Zawinski's jwz - the eclectic hacker.
• LanguageHat
• Dr. Frank Mondimore's MoodNews - various postings about research into depression.
• David Dobbs's Neuron Culture - "on science, nature, culture".
• Leonard Richardson's News You Can Bruise
• John Dufresne's Occasional Web Log
• Forrest Maready's The OCD Alien - "An Alien Observes the Human User Experience".
• Stephanie Dray's Peaks and Valleys - "Writing, Politics, and Minutia".
• Elayne Riggs' Pen-Elayne on the Web - must be a Beatles fan!
• Gordon Atkinson's Real Live Preacher
• Theo's Impressions & Such - "speaking with much energy for the good of others is naturally exhausting". (Delicious)
• Wilson's Blogmanac - "Think universally, Act terrestrially". (The blog for Wilson's Almanac, a daily E-zine.)

Meta-Everything

• freshnews.org - "fresh tech news from around the net". Recent headlines from a bunch of technology web sites.

Everything

• Ars Technica - "The PC Enthusiast's Resource".
• Digg - "a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control".
• Freecode (formerly Freshmeat)
• Hacker News
• I Programmer - "programming, reviews and projects".
• Slashdot - "News for nerds, stuff that matters".
• Stack Overflow - programming questions and answers.
• UserFriendly.org - "Impairing Productivity Since 1997".

Various and Sundry

• I, Cringely - Robert X. Cringely's insightful musings on the computer world.
• Joel on Software - ramblings, mostly on computer-related topics. (Discussion Groups)

Embedded Computing

• Dr. Dobb's Portal: Embedded Systems
• Embedded | Linux Journal - embedded computing articles, news items, and resources.
• Embedded Systems Design and its magazine.
• LinuxForDevices.Com - "... your embedded Linux resource".
• WindowsForDevices.Com - "... your Windows Embedded community".

Gadgets and Games

• Engadget - a gadget blog. (Gaming, Handhelds)
• Joystiq - "the video game weblog".

Handhelds and PDAs

• Internet Tablet Talk - for the Nokia internet tablets.
• MobileRead - "[T]he resource for mobile geeks ..."
• PalmInfoCenter - "The Latest Palm OS News and Reviews".
• Planet Maemo (Nokia tablets/phones) Blogs
• TamsPalm - the Palm OS / web OS Blog

Operating Systems

• Librenix - "Information for Linux System Administration"
• LinuxInsider.Com - "Linux News & Information from Around the World".
• Linux Links - "The Linux Portal".
• LinuxPlanet - "A Guide to the Linux Operating System".
• WinPlanet - "Software Downloads and Reviews for the Small Business".

Programming Languages

• Lambda the Ultimate - "The Programming Languages Weblog".
• Language Pissing Match Wiki

• The C++ Source - "The Premier Online Journal for the C++ Community".
• Daily Python-URL
• Dave Roberts' Finding Lisp - "Slowly but surely, the programming world is finding Lisp ..."
• Jim Weirich's { | one, step, back | } - "Ruby, OO, Programming, whatever".
• Planet Erlang
• Planet Haskell
• Planet Lisp
• Planet Scheme
• José A. Ortego-Ruiz's programming musings (Delicious)
• Team Eiffel - "A place for serious Eiffel users to post their experiences, opinions and commentary."

Software Development

• Artima Developer - "Best practices in enterprise software development". Weblogs:
  • James O. Coplien's Software: The Next Generation
  • Bruce Eckel's Computing Thoughts
• developer.* - "Articles, Blogs, and Books about Software Development and Computer Programming".
• Dr. Dobb's Portal - "The World of Software Development". The "Running Light Without Overbyte" journal is no more, but, before its demise, it had absorbed C/C++ Users Journal and Windows Developer.
• I Programmer - "programming, reviews and projects".
• O'Reilly Developer Weblogs

• Ned Batchelder: Blog (additional writings)
• Ian Bicking: A Blog
• Marshall Brain's Blog
• Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror - "programming and human factors".
• The Daily WTF - "Curious Perversions in Information Technology".
• DZone Snippets - "Post snippets of code. Sort by tags, people, people and tags, etc."
• Andrae Muys' Etymon
• Ralph Johnson
• Larry O'Brien's Knowing .NET - "Software Development Process and Industry Analysis" by the former editor of the excellent (but now-defunct) Computer Language and Software Development magazines.
• Reg Braithwaite's Raganwald - "Passionate software development." (Delicious)
• Wesner Moise's Smart Software - "... musings on .NET, Technology, Entrepreneurship and Life (formerly .NET Undocumented)."
• Steve Yegge's Stevey's Blog Rants - "Random Whining and Stuff." (Other writings)
• Jean-Claude Wippler - "a homepage? no. a trash can? no. a weblog."

Web Design and Development

• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox - "Current Issues in Web Usability".
• A List Apart - "For people who make websites".
• Anne van Kesteren - "Weblog about Markup & Style".
• Shirley Kaiser's Brainstorms & Raves - "almost daily notes about web design, development, standards, typography, music, and anything else".
• Richard Rutter's clagnut - "stick around why don't you".
• Jeffrey Zeldman's The Daily Report - "web design news & info since 1999".
• Vincent Flanders' Daily Sucker - "Examples of Bad Web Design".
• Les Orchard's 0xDECAFBAD (Delicious)
• Digital Web Magazine
• evolt.org - "Workers of the Web, Evolt!"
• Evan Goer's goer.org: Journal
• Patrick Griffiths' HTML Dog Blog
• microformats (Wiki)
• Molly Holzschlag's molly.com
• Heather Measday's Myteknowledgy - "Where I share my Tek-Knowledge - Design, Fun Stuff, Cool Links, Awesome Imagery, Help and Support".
• Jeremy Flint's Red Hot and Daily
• John Battelle's Searchblog - "Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more."
• Dan Cederholm's SimpleBits
• Douglas Bowman's Stopdesign
• Eric Meyer's Thoughts From Eric - and his writings.

Miscellaneous

• Builder.au - "by developers for devlopers".
• Paul McJones' Dusty Decks - "Preserving historic software".
• InformIT - articles, book excerpts, etc.
• Mappa.Mundi Magazine - from 1999 to 2001, "examined how we see and use the Internet via an eclectic mix of articles about technology, history, and the future of cyberspace."
• ACM's Queue - "in-depth articles and insightful columns written by accomplished software engineers, as well as interviews with legends (and future legends) in the field."
• ACM's Ubiquity - "Information Everywhere!"

Fiction

• anacrusis - "101-word stories by Brendan Adkins ... Fiction for the Attention-Deprived".

• FanFiction.Net - "unleash your imagination and free your soul". Fan-written stories for books, video games, TV shows, movies, and so on.

• The Practical Press - "The place where bloggers come to be creative -- fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays, art, photos, literary reviews and discussion, we do it all."

Mystery

• Gaslight - has a number of E-texts "from the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919".
• The Thrilling Detective Web Site   (fiction)

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

• AlienSkin Magazine - "Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Magazine".
• Anotherealm - "The Magazine of Speculative Fiction".
• Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy   (back issues)
• Dark Moon Rising - science fiction, fantasy, and horror. (Last issue was in 2004; book reviews only now.)
• Horror Masters - an extensive collection of old and new horror stories. (All stories are in PDF format.)
• InterText: The Online Fiction Magazine - was an established E-zine (1991-2004) with great short stories in a variety of genres. The link takes you to an archive of all the issues.
• Planet Magazine - "Wild Science Fiction & Fantasy :: Online since 1994".
• Quantum Muse - alternative, science fiction, fantasy, and book.
• Strange Horizons - speculative fiction.

Genomics

• "Boulder Data Interchange Format" by Lincoln Stein - is a brief overview of and manual for a PERL-friendly, data interchange format for genome analysis software. The PERL objects? Boulders, stones, and pebbles (nested stones), of course!
• Primer on Molecular Genetics by Denise Casey, for the Department of Energy - an excellent, fairly detailed overview of the Human Genome Project. I've seen so many links to it, would it be fair to call it a "classic" in the field? (The link above is to the 1992 version of the primer. An updated, but abridged, 2008 edition is available.)
• "An Introduction to Biocomputing" by David Steffen - is the informative introduction to the BioComputing HyperText Coursebook.
• "Visualizing the Genome" by David B. Searls - includes a description of his RSVP (Rapid Sequence Visualization in PostScript), a suite of PostScript programs that perform preliminary sequence analysis and generate graphic output. The programs also run on any computer that has a PostScript interpreter, so you're not restricted to a printer!
• "The Importance of Standards and Componentry in Meeting the Genome Informatics Challenges of the Next Five Years" by Nathan Goodman, Steve Rozen, and Lincoln Stein - discusses the benefits of building tools in a modular fashion with standardized interfaces between the modules and proposes a study of the existing practices and of ways of merging them into some type of cohesive standard. (Also see "The Case for Componentry in Genome Information Systems" by the same authors.)

History & Literature

• Early America Review, "A Journal of Fact and Opinion on the People, Issues and Events of 18th Century America".
• H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online: Discussion Lists - "H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers and students in an egalitarian exchange of ideas and materials."
• George Mason University's History News Network (HNN) - "Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too." A web site with lively discussions whose mission is "to help put current events into historical perspective."

• Bad Attitudes - Jerome Doolittle's magazine, mysteries, novels, and poems.
• Boston Review: A Political and Literary Forum
• London Review of Books and its archives.
• New York Review of Books has the full text of selected articles from current and back issues.
• Utne Reader

• "Shakespeare" By Another Name by Mark Anderson - presents the case for Edward de Vere as the actual author of Shakespeare's works. More articles and related links are found at the Shakespeare Oxford Society, a group which argues that de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was the real "spear-shaker"; their magazine, The Ever Reader, is online. Opposing viewpoints and links are found on The Shakespeare Authorship Page.

• TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - "News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics".

Medicine

• Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics - a collection of links.
• Emerging Infectious Diseases - "a peer-reviewed journal published by the National Center for Infectious Diseases".
• Psychiatric Times - "a monthly trade publication with news and clinical articles read by psychiatrists, allied mental health professionals and primary care physicians who treat mental disorders".

Miscellaneous

• Boing Boing - "A Directory of Wonderful Things".
• Delicious - "social bookmarking".
• kottke.org
• Lifehacker
• The Presurfer - "Your Daily Dose of Diversion".
• SUDftw - "We waste time so you don't have to ..."
• Waxy.org Links Miniblog

• Drew Curtis' FARK.com - "[A]t this rate by the end of the year there will be more people reading Fark than will be alive on the planet at that time. It will be interesting to see how that works out."
• Worth1000 - "the top creative competition and photoshop contest site on the web."

• Hal's Picks of the Month - science books and essays worth reading.
• Mark Wieczorek - "The Psychology of Marketing and The Marketing of Psychology."

• Libarynth - "a parafictional, semifunctional (deeply InterTwingled) collection of documents, notes and RandomNess in the smouldering rubble of babel."

• HowStuffWorks - "Learn how Everything Works!"
• The Skeptic's Dictionary - "A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions."
• The Straight Dope - "Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (It's Taking Longer Than We Thought)".

• Television Without Pity - "Spare the Snark, Spoil the Networks". Forums and stuff!

Music

• delicious MP3

• Ubuweb's 365 Days Project - "One MP3 a day ... for one year." Rare finds, MP3s, pictures, and fascinating comments.
• EC Brown's MP3 Links Archive is a large assortment of music links in a wide variety of genres.
• Live Music Archive
• MP3 Blog Listing
• KINGBLIND - "Music, Art & Entertainment".
• Oddio Overplay - "exists to spread some happiness all over the planet by connecting you with fantastic artists who deserve to be heard."
• Puzzling Music Archive
• Things I Think About Music And Stuff Like That - "the musings of a music fan".

• The Ledge - Fleetwood Mac forums:
  • Pre-Rumours
  • Peter Green

Periodicals

• The American Prospect
• Consumer Reports
• Faux Paws - humorous columns about serious issues, by R. David Cox.
• Harper's Magazine
• The New Yorker
• Salon.com
• Slate Magazine

Politics

Radio

• The White Rose Society - "Liberal/Progressive Talk Radio Audio Archives" in MP3 format.

• Ed Schultz Show - "Straight Talk From the Heartland".
• Jon Elliott: This Is America
• Laura Flanders
• Rachel Maddow
• Randi Rhodes
• Stephanie Miller Show - humor to calm the rage.
• Thom Hartmann - "author, progressive talk radio show host, books, and writings".

Frequently Read

• Alternate Brain - "Truth from around the World". (Fixer & Gordon)
• John Aravosis' AMERICAblog - "A great nation deserves the truth".
• Jerome Doolittle's BAD ATTITUDES
• The Book of Cletis - "The Voice of the People is the Voice of God".
• Booman Tribune - "A Progressive Community".
• Brilliant at Breakfast - "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." (Oscar Wilde)
• Crooks and Liars - "John Amato's virtual online magazine... OK, It's a blog!"
• Daily Kos - "State of the Nation".
• Firedoglake - "... bedlam is dreaming of rain ..." (TBogg)
• Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com.
• Digby's Hullabaloo
• Barbara O'Brien's The Mahablog - "Making the World Safe for Liberalism".
• Steve Benen's Political Animal
• Avedon Carol's The Sideshow
• The American Prospect's TAPPED (Dean Baker)
• Think Progress (Wonk Room, Matthew Yglesias)

Squeeze a few religious blogs in here so I don't forget them ...

• Robert M. Jeffers' Adventus
• Nadia Bolz-Weber's Sarcastic Lutheran - "The cranky spirituality of a postmodern Gal. Emerging church à la Luther."
• Slacktivist - "Knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend". (Slacktiverse, at the original Slacktivist web site, is now a community blog discussing many of the same topics.)
• Robert Charest's Whammer's Blog - "Material for the novel Drifting With Jesus".

Less Frequently Read

• PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

Economics ...

• Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal
• EconoSpeak - "Annals of the Economically Incorrect".
• Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality with a Flexible Trunk - "Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based".

Conglomerations

• BuzzFlash.com - headlines and commentary.
• Common Dreams - "Join the movement. For the greater good.". Breaking news, columns, and lots of links to news services, periodicals, columnists, and radio and television stations.
• Democratic Underground (latest threads)
• David Brock's Media Matters for America
• Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo and TPMmuckraker - "They've got muck. We've got rakes."

Every So Often (A-L)

• alicublog - "[I]ts editors pen somber, Shackletonian missives from their lonely arctic outpost."
• Eric Alterman's Altercation - "Is this the right room for an argument?"
• American Politics Journal - "Opinion * Invective * Satire".
• BadTux the Snarky Penguin - "In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin."
• BartCop - "Political Humor and Commentary".   (Bartcop Forum)
• CathiefromCanada - "Do not go gentle into that good night. Blog, blog against the dying of the light."
• Corrente - "If you have 'no place to go,' come here!"
• The Crisis Papers - "News, Opinion and Commentary from the Progressive Internet", edited by Ernest Partridge, Ph.D. and Bernard Weiner, Ph.D.
• Bob Somerby's the daily howler - 'musings on the mainstream "press corps" and the american discourse'.
• d r i f t g l a s s - "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it." (Ray Bradbury)
• Kevin Drum at Mother Jones.
• Marcy's Emptywheel
• Atrios' Eschaton - manning the ramparts for more than a decade.
• Len's First Door on the Left - "If you can read this, thank a teacher."
• First Draft - "Writing is only real on the first draft". (Adrastos, Athenae, and Jude)
• Group News Blog - "The heirs to Steve Gilliard's The News Blog. Progressive politics, news, food, sports & the arts. Stopping the war. Smart, good people & a safe space. Pull up a chair and hang."
• David Cogswell's HeadBlast - "Existential Politics in the 21st Century".
• Hoffmania! - "The American Condition".
• Juan Cole's Informed Comment - "Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion".
• General J. C. Christian's Jesus' General - "An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender".
• Ezra Klein - "Economic and Domestic Policy, and Lots of It".
• Steve Soto's The Left Coaster - "An outside-the-Beltway perspective on current events, politics, media, and the arts. We are proud to be part of the Reality-Based Community."
• Bill Scher's LiberalOasis - "where the Left is right and the Right is wrong".

Every So Often (M-Z)

• Carolyn Kay's Make Them Accountable - "Making politicians and media accountable to ordinary citizens since 2000."
• Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World
• MyDD - "Direct Democracy for People Powered Politics", by Jerome Armstrong et al.
• Swopa's Needlenose
• David Neiwert's Orcinus - "Policy, Culture and Journalism in the 21st Century".
• Pandagon - by Amanda Marcotte et al.
• The Reality-Based Community - "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts", by Mark Kleiman et al.
• Attaturk's, Champollion's, DeDurkheim's, and Loquitur's Rising Hegemon - "Angst-Filled Missives on the Fate of American Democracy ..."
• Scoobie Davis Online - "Filmmaker, Surfer, and Party Crasher".
• Seeing the Forest - "For the Trees".
• Demosthenes' Shadow of the Hegemon - "Over Eight Years of Opinion Writing From The 'Grandfather of the Blogosphere'. I'm as surprised as you are."
• Bruce Garrett's The Story So Far ...
• Susie Madrak's Suburban Guerrilla - "Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media."
• Jeralyn Merritt's TalkLeft - "The Politics of Crime".
• TomPaine.com - "The best progressive insight and action. All day."
• t r u t h o u t - "Fearless, Independent News and Opinion".
• Jonathan Turley - Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks")
• uggabugga
• Steve Clemons' The Washington Note
• Maru's WTF Is It Now?!? - great pictures!
• Some Guy With a Website - "Cartoons & Commentary from August J. Pollak".

People to See and Places to Go

• Eric Alterman
• Joe Conason - The New York Observer column.
• David Corn
• Robert Kuttner at The Huffington Post.
• Gene Lyons

• CounterPunch - "Tells the Facts, Names the Names".
• Mother Jones - "Smart, Fearless Journalism".
• The Nation covers political and social issues. It has the full text of selected articles from the current and back issues.

• Democrats.com - "The Aggressive Progressives" (blog)
• George Mason University's History News Network - "Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too."
• Institute for Public Accuracy - "Reliable Independent Sources for Breaking News".

• AlterNet.org - "an online magazine and information resource where pressing issues are subject to examination and debate".
• Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian
• Citizens for Legitimate Government
• Consortiumnews.com - Robert Parry's excellent site.
• Online Journal
• Unknown News - "News that's not known, or not known enough."

Religion

• Antithesis: A Review of Reformed/Presbyterian Thought and Practice - on-line articles from a short-lived (1990-1991), bi-monthly publication.
• The Bible and Interpretation - "... delivering the latest news, features, editorials, commentary ... relevant to the study of the Bible for the public and biblical scholars."
• Jonathan Wallace's The Ethical Spectacle - on the web since January 1995!
• LiveralEvangelical.org - "Empowerment for intentionally moderate Christians, Resources for creatively inclusive congregrations." (Le Blog)
• Theological Editions - "religious news, views, reviews, and resources".
• Theology Today - an "ecumenical journal of theology", has on-line articles and lots of book reviews. Issues from 1983 to 1996 are on-line; the journal plans to keep a five-year gap between the current issue and the most recent issue on-line.

Science

• "The Alternate View" - "cutting-edge science" columns by physicist John G. Cramer from the pages of Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine.
• American Scientist - "The Magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society".
• Discover - a popular science magazine. (News, Space)
• Essays on Science and Society - a collection of monthly essays from Science magazine.
• Hot A.I.R. - "Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research".
• New Scientist (the British counterpart to Science News?) also has the full text of selected articles, both from the current issue and from back issues. The articles are aimed at the interested layman and cover a broad range of scientific subjects.
• Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith - a publication of the American Scientific Affiliation. If you explore the web site, you'll find a number of on-line articles and book reviews.
• Science News - "the weekly newsmagazine of science".
• Scientific American - scientific paradise - for the layman, more or less.
• SciTech Daily Review - "science, technology, future developments, innovations, implications".
• Skeptical Inquirer - published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CISCOP).

• Jason Rosenhouse's EvolutionBlog - "Commentary on the endless dispute between evolution and creationism."
• John Wilkins' Evolving Thoughts - "Evolution, culture, philosophy and chocolate!"
• Carl Zimmer's The Loom - genetics and science tattoos!
• The Panda's Thumb - "dedicated to explaining the theory of evolution, critiquing the claims of the anti-evolution movement, and defending the integrity of science education in America and around the world."
• P.Z. Myers' Pharyngula - "Evolution, development, and random bilogical ejaculations from a godless liberal".
• RealClimate - commentary on "climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public".
• Larry Moran's Sandwalk - "Strolling with a Skeptical Biochemist".