A collection of interesting reads from across the web
While I used to keep this list up to date it has fallen by the wayside. More interesting items coming soon.
| Title | Link | Category | Tags | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Death Row Book Club | Link | Article | General, Books, Compelling | Book Club started by death row inmates |
| On the hunt for the lost wonders of medieval Britain | Link | Article | History, Aberystwyth, Obscure | An Aber grad hunts down wonders described in medieval literature |
| Watchdogs | Link | Article | Embedded, Software, Hardware | Jack Ganssle's definitive article on watchdogs |
| The Innovator Who Introduced Cherry Blossoms to the U.S.A. | Link | Article | History, Obscure | The story behind Washington, D.C.'s sakura |
| The Scientific Paper is Obsolete | Link | Article | Academia, Visualisation | An argument for modern presentation of results |
| You Share Everything With Your Bestie. Even Brain Waves. | Link | Article | Psychology, Research, Society | Research demonstrating enhanced similarities in brain response between individuals with close relationships |
| Has Wine Gone Bad? | Link | Article | Food, Wine | Discussing the rise of 'Natural' wine producers. |
| When is a nation not a nation? Somaliland’s dream of independence | Link | Article | Long, Geopolitics | A look at Somaliland's struggle for recognition in the face of indifference |
| Searching for Chocolate's Roots, and Enemies in Colombia | Link | Article | Long, Food | Struggles facing the modern farming of Cocoa in Columbia |
| On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace | Link | Article | Long, Embedded Software, Software | The original 1980 article by Danny Cohen on the Endianness of data |
| The Wizards of Mind Control | Link | Article | Science | How parasites adapt to cause psychological effects in hosts |
| Inside the C Standard Library | Link | Article | Long, Embedded Software, Software | A deep dive on the structure and contents of the C standard library |
| The Lies in Your Grocery Store | Link | Article | Long, Oddball, Law | Following America's most prolific lawyer in the domain of misleading food labelling |
| The Jargon File | Link | Collection | Software, Humour, History | The classic compilation of hacker culture |
| The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge | Link | Story | Oddball, History | The hunt for the origins of a pedistrian bridge in Minnesota |
| Sound | Link | Article | Software, Physics, Music | Bartosz Ciechanowski's incredible explination of the physics of sound |
| The Last of the Fungus | Link | Article | Nature, Science | On the collection and cultivation of caterpillar fungus in the Himalayas |
| Safe Design Rules | Link | Article | Software, Design | Reliable rules for visual design |
| Coffee in a can | Link | Article | Food, History | History of canned coffee in Japan |
| Game, set, sell | Link | Article | Advertising, Long, History | On the commercial development of tennis |
| Marin Mersenne on the Consolation of Sad Music | Link | Think-piece | Music, Long, History | 16th century polymath Marin Mersenne's views on sad music |
| St. Helena communications info | Link | Collection | Oddball, travel | A comprehensive look at St Helena's communications links |
| Slovenia's Beautiful Beehives Turn Apiaries Into Art | Link | Article | Travel, History | The unique construction of Slovenian beehives |
