Essay

https://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/ Excellent essay, very eloquent. I do not agree with all points, but this is definitely a worth a read.

https://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/ Excellent essay, very eloquent. I do not agree with all points, but this is definitely a worth a read.

http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/12763.html A review of three Lord of The Ring movies from someone who never read Tolkin’s books before. Hllarios, read it of you have 30 minutes to spare. Taken from AVVA ( http://avva.livejournal.com/ )

http://norvig.com/sudoku.html An essay by Peter Norvig showing how to program sudoku solver. Note: Read this if you are a software developer . Even better is to print it out and read it with a pencil.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175357/ “greater security doesn’t come from fighting more wars; it comes from fighting fewer of them or none at all.” An excellent article about problems current American war strategy. Read it, if you indeed “support the troops”.

http://tidypub.org/ldcUR Detailed description of what it feels like when you being shot (in a chest , small caliber, point-blank range)

http://www.syleum.com/2009/03/17/healthcare-data-model/ tells about problems with IT in HealthCare and Obama’s electronic records plan from one person’s 1fst hand experience. Make user u read the comments. (allow 30-40 minutes )

http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability good essay about software usability in regards to open source software. Much of what he says is true.

http://karmatics.com/docs/evolution-and-wisdom-of-crowds.html excellent essay! “algorithm of evolution” describes predictive-markets and statistical prediction

http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=79 Jonathan Edwards, currently a Research Fellow at MIT with the Software Design Group. He writes a blog called Alarming Development to better understand the creative act of programming, and to help liberate it from the primitive state of our art.