Let us suppose you have been assigned to spend some hours scrutinizing this website, and thus have some time to kill. Here are some links to check out while waiting.

Random non-fiction links

• Poison Ivy tutorial. Try the picture quiz.
• Tree data. Look at all the different kinds of evergreens.
• Left Brain, Right Brain: Science or the New Phrenology?
• Brief explanation of processing international text using standard C
• A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
• Assembly language programming pointers for Linux

Philosophy

• "Nothing exposes the hollowness of the claims corporations now make to intellectual property as much as their own histories...."
• Why Patents Are Bad for Software
• Thomas Jefferson's letter to Isaac McPherson on patents

Journals, periodicals, weblogs

• Freedom to Tinker, a weblog with news and considered opinions on the subject
• Bruce Schneier's blog, with interesting daily tidbits on security
• Wikipedia Picture of the Day
• www.prwatch.org propaganda and lobbying radar
• The straight dope
• Defensetech, covering new defense technologies, their shortcomings, hints regarding policy
• Astronomy picture of the day
• A daily dose of poorly inspired quotes of the "Ditherati"