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Practical UNIX Manuals: mdoc edit / delete

A guide to writing man pages. Particularly useful because it describes the best way to do this with modern man tools.

to etext man manual unix writing ... on 04 March 2012

The Elements of Style by William Strunk - Project Gutenberg edit / delete

The original version, before White's (more prescriptive) amendments.

to ag0700 english style writing ... on 03 December 2011

Long Live Pitman's Shorthand! Devoted to New Era Shorthand edit / delete

It turns out to be remarkably difficult to find decent web sites about shorthand -- this one's about the most detailed I've seen.

to shorthand writing ... on 24 December 2009

Translator's Notes edit / delete

Annotated version of the English translation of "The Mystery Guest". Interesting reading, but the site design's really irritating!

to translation writing ... on 04 December 2006

Greg Egan's Home Page edit / delete

Writer of "Luminous", and general all-round science cool guy.

to amusements physics science sf writing ... on 17 November 2006

Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms edit / delete

I found the anime section particularly amusing.

to amusements anime tv writing ... on 31 October 2006

Designing an Authentication System: a Dialogue in Four Scenes edit / delete

Explaining Kerberos as a dialogue. A nice bit of writing.

to amusements kerberos programming security writing ... on 13 August 2006

Paul Robinson, The Philosophy of Punctuation edit / delete

to amusements english writing ... on 13 August 2006

Edison's Conquest of Mars edit / delete

Scans of a couple of editions. Maybe someday if I feel like writing some OCR software...

to books sf writing ... on 30 November 2005

Vademe.cum - Mail Books edit / delete

A selection of constrained writings, including a lipogrammatic review of "A Void".

to amusements constraints oulipo writing ... on 13 November 2005