StumbleUpon: This is a COOL firefox extension. It allows you to "stumble upon" links related to a web page that other people have left. It adds a meta-hyperlink layer on top of each web page, and if it isn't the future of the web, then the future of the web will at least contain something like it.
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
It looks excellent and the reviews on Amazon are very good.
A page with lecture notes and homeworks (but no solutions):
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/80-413-713/
Just a random assortment of things I need to look at/into:
UltraCorps, an online web-based multiplayer game by Steve Jackson
Munchkin and Frag, two card games by Steve Jackson
Dork Tower, an online comic
Something Positive, another online comic
Game Puzzles, an online store/resource for cool games
Loompanics Unlimited, "hard to find, controversial, unusual books"
Genetic Omni-dominance, the God Hypothesis
I was buying some tickets for the Sinus Theater Christmas Show at the Alamo Drafthouse, and I pondered the origin of the term "will call". A Google search turned up the site PainInTheEnglish (
http://www.painintheenglish.com/default.asp), which gives this explanation:
To the best of my knowledge and belief, the phrase comes from the fact that you have prearranged for the tickets to be held for you (usually so you can get guaranteed good seating) and you "will call" for them at the booth when you get there.
"Call" in this case does not mean the phone call you make to arrange the tickets to be held for you, or a shout to the fellow on duty, but something like what's meant in the phrase "a social call" (i.e. visit).