Diversions

Podcasts

The Skeptics Guide to the Universe Your escape to reality.

Philosophy Bites Top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics.

Comics

XKCD A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

News

Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters.

programming.reddit.com I once won a beer in Taiwan by posting a dozen lines of Lisp here.

Games

Final Fantasy Wiki For all your boss hunting needs.

People

Computer Science

Don Knuth
The Professer Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming.

Peter Norvig
Author of the worlds leading Artificial Intelligence text book. Old-School Lisper. Director of Research at Google.

John McCarthy The original Lisper. Yet another Computer Science legend at Stanford.

Marvin Minsky Why can't computers think yet? Ask him!

Paul Graham Outspoken essayist. Old-School Lisper. Angel invester.

Audrey Tang Skilled Haskeller, the last best hope for Perl 6.

Chris Gore Friend from grad school. Hire him!

Daniel Tauritz Teaches Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation at MST.

Linguistics

Noam Chomsky The man, the legend.

Larry Wall This is not misfiled.