On-line demo of Xerox's language identifier (commercial) 47 languages, not terribly actively maintained. I believe this was originally created by one of their Finnish researchers in XRCE Grenoble once upon a time ... I also got the impression that this one was the first to make a conscious effort at supporting different character set encodings. Fun Observation: the Danish sample Sentence uses ancient German-Style Capitalization Rules (-: ... and the Norwegian is (predictably) unlabelled, although I believe it's Bokmål. And it's incorrectly punctuated.

Viruses in the wild, monthly reports way back to 1993

Classic essay by Vannevar Bush - shared bookmarks predicted in 1945 Oddly prescient, this essay by the father of the U.S. National Science Foundation is deservedly a classic. He speculates about a yet-to-be-invented machine which he calls a "memex" and describes it in a way which sounds a lot like a personal computer. Missing from the picture, but easy to imagine, is the Internet. But the image of scientists making "trails" of annotations and sharing them with each other is closely matched by ... surfers collecting bookmarks, tagging them using ad hoc tags, and sharing them via the internet. The stuff about the "memex" is only towards the end - skip to section 5 if you find the first pages boring. As is my habit, I have linked to the "printer friendly" version of the article. The authoritative location is . There are also various more or less legitimate copies all over the net. Oh, he misspelled "Hollerith". Sorry, couldn't resist noticing.

Just another Beatles apocryphica site

Origins of the Greek letter forms, and how they ended up in the Latin script

Jorn Barger, a pioneer of blogging Apparently he is back with us again. (Visited 2005-04-02)

Usability guru Jef Raskin died in February of 2005 You'd think THEY would have thought of giving the page a sensible title, but nooo.

Steve Mallett's oreillynet.com announcement of de.lirio.us

Zeitgeist site, one million pixels for sale (SOLD)

Jamie Zawinski's web site (the Lucid guy, the Netscape guy, the XScreensaver guy) This is one of the sites I get back to again and again. The mix of deep insights into computing, weird anecdotes, and general attitude is just right (or you will hate it from the first minute).