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Contents 1 Unborged Resources 2 RL-Reading 3 CFC-Reading 3.1 Cool Essays / Rants / Philosophy 3.1.1 Internet 3.1.2 Mini-Rants 3.2 Information - HOWTOs, Guidelines, etc 4 To Borg

[edit] Unborged Resources

• http://rantingroom.blogspot.com/ -- Practical discussions of the craft, trade, and business of writing. No politics. No gossip. No cute cat stories.
• http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/ -- Video log.
• nationmaster - Statistics, an encyclopedia and much more.
• Creative Problem-Solving
• Rick's Rants
• The Quantum Handshake
• http://www.huna.org/~huna/
• National Library of Canada
• Library of Congress - USA
• Library of Congress: Online Catalogues
• Malaspina - Great Books
• Great Books Women's Studies

[edit] RL-Reading

• http://www.techletters.com
• How we confuse symbols and things
• Why is the sky dark at night?
• The Magic Looking Glass
• Interview with an Extraterrestrial
• Did Earth's Life Originate on Mars?
• Stephen Hawking Lectures
• Rant on the Movie "Independance Day"

• http://www.literature.org

[edit] CFC-Reading

• Beelzebub Interview on warez
• Dan Bricklin's writings
• Philosophy of the GNU Project
• The state of the internet
• The magic cauldron
• Where did my files go?
• You've got Jail! - or How The CBDTPA Might Outlaw Proper Security Practices
• The Computer Utility As A Marketplace For Computer Services -- Bob Frankston's Masters Thesis
• Bob Frankston's texts on technology
• Brass Lantern Editorials
• Hacker Folklore
• The Constancy of its Affections -- Omni Magazine, January 1988

[edit] Cool Essays / Rants / Philosophy

[edit] Internet

• The HTML Hell Page
• Open Letter To AT&T About Spam
• A Rant About Usenet
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
• Why the web sucks, II

[edit] Mini-Rants

• Arachnoid's author ranting about HTML inconsistancies
• Eric S. Raymond's Continuity Page

[edit] Information - HOWTOs, Guidelines, etc

• Why so Much Spam in My Email?
• How do I quote correctly in Usenet?
• The Unix and Internet Fundamentals HOWTO

• (local cache) RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines 

[edit] To Borg

• http://www.theotherpages.org/mutual.html
• http://www.targum.net/files.php3

from http://www.comedia.com/hot/jargon_3.0/INTRO/ANTHROMO.HTML

Semantically, one rich source of jargon constructions is the hackish tendency to anthropomorphize hardware and software. This isn't done in a naive way; hackers don't personalize their stuff in the sense of feeling empathy with it, nor do they mystically believe that the things they work on every day are `alive'. What is common is to hear hardware or software talked about as though it has homunculi talking to each other inside it, with intentions and desires. Thus, one hears "The protocol handler got confused", or that programs "are trying" to do things, or one may say of a routine that "its goal in life is to X". One even hears explanations like "... and its poor little brain couldn't understand X, and it died." Sometimes modelling things this way actually seems to make them easier to understand, perhaps because it's instinctively natural to think of anything with a really complex behavioral repertoire as `like a person' rather than `like a thing'.