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Retro Reading: The Game Novellas Homepage edit / delete

An impressive collection of novellas that came with 80s games.

to amusements etext games novellas retrocomputing ... on 25 November 2012

Am Baile - Digital Library edit / delete

Various scanned books related to Scottish culture, including a copy of J. Scott Skinner's "The Scottish Violinist" that's the edition before the one I've got.

to etext folk music skinner violin ... on 25 November 2012

Scan Tailor edit / delete

Takes a directory full of scanned images, and processes them into nice tidy pages to make a PDF file from (splitting, deskewing, deblobbing, etc.). Works nicely; I now have a clean PDF of "The Scottish Violinist" based on A3 scans.

to etext graphics scan software ... on 18 November 2012

The History of Phone Phreaking edit / delete

The blog is quite interesting, but the best bit's the scanned documents, including some classic 60s stuff on phone signalling.

to etext phone phreaking retrotech telecom ... on 13 October 2012

Out of This World and Out of the Unknown: bringing science fiction to the small screen | MetaFilter edit / delete

With links to many of the episodes and the original stories, where available.

to etext fiction sf tv video ... on 16 September 2012

Bruce Eckel's MindView, Inc: Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel edit / delete

This C++ book comes highly recommended, and is now freely available. AG0700/AG0803 students may find this useful.

to ag0700 books c++ etext programming ... on 16 September 2012

The Hacker Shelf | Community-curated collection of free books for the intellectually curious. edit / delete

Links to online books -- generally pretty good (better than collections of cheap ebooks I've seen!).

to ag0700 ag0803 books etext programming ... on 16 September 2012

hwrnmnbsol edit / delete

Lots of short SF stories. Good stuff.

to amusements etext sf story ... on 27 May 2012

~Archive: a Knowledge Tool by the Brooklyn Institute by Brooklyn Institute for Social Research — Kickstarter edit / delete

I'm unconvinced by the project, but the idea of using kickstarter to fund research projects is an interesting one. Wonder whether I'd get away with it here! (Those donating $100 get free B+B at a workshop at the end, or something...)

to etext funding research ... on 27 May 2012

klabs.org: "We've taken a hit, but we're back." edit / delete

Particularly interesting section on the engineering of the Apollo flight software.

to agc apollo etext history retrocomputing space ... on 27 May 2012