- Science news:
Scientific American,
New Scientist,
Science Daily,
Space.com,
Universe Today,
Stardate Online
- NASA:
APOD,
IADJ,
Mars rovers,
Cassini/Huygens,
JPL;
HiRise images of Mars
- “Idea” sites:
www.edge.org,
www.ted.org.
- Snopes:
www.snopes.com
- Humor:
The Onion,
xkcd,
PhD Comics,
McSweeney’s lists
- Poetry and parodies thereof:
Desiderata,
Deteriorata;
The Profit;
Jabberwocky in translation,
Pullbackerwocky;
The Tao of Programming
- Astronomy:
Ephemeris,
Your Sky,
NGC/IC
- Analog devices:
Clock,
timekeeping
devices,
astrolabe,
slide rule,
a century of calendars;
the archetypal
astronomical clock.
- Literature reference:
gjburch.yi.org/RFCs/gene.wolfe.dictionary.txt;
www.tuckborough.net,
www.glyphweb.com/arda;
www.yrch.com
www.tolkienfrance.net,
www.tolkiendil.com;
www.webpan.com/msauers/modesitt;
www.skepticsannotatedbible.com.
- Numbers:
Primes up to 1000
- Words:
Anagrams,
pangrams (e.g. The quick brown fox ...),
German pangrams.
- Rubik’s cube:
Beginner’s method,
Michael Reid’s pages,
Reid’s
patterns,
de Pereda page,
Petrus speed-solving method,
Fridrich speed-solving method:
bottom-layer orientations,
bottom-layer permutations.
- Other:
zapatopi.net/lordkelvin.html,
perlis.txt,
proof-techniques.txt,
proof.html,
The Aggregate Magic Algorithms,
Grand challenge problems.
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