Pinging Knight

Sweet Surrender. A haunting story enjoyable by Go players and math people who understand what NP-hard means. A Picture's Worth. Stories and essays inspired by a single photograph. There is some really touching stuff there. Hilarious poster. Jeff sent this to me. Avoid if you are politically correct. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!). An example of why blog entries should not always be named after their title. Self-explanatory, otherwise. Child's Play. What do little kids think of the games of yesteryear? Were the classics really that great? "What? There's no power-ups in Pong. The concept of a power-up hadn't been invented yet." Guidlines for focusing on learning. Excellent tips. Angst Technology. A webcomic about a start-up computer game company. Particularly funny for any programmer is January 22, 2001. Project Aon. Did anyone else play with the Lone Wolf books? You know, with Magnakai powers and such? A mix between table-top RPG and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, sorta. Well, now the books are online for free. Multiple IE's in Windows. Web designers groan now. On one hand, you can now test your site designs on multiple versions of IE(Internet Explorer). On the other hand, now you have much less of an excuse not to. Bah. 47 Blog Tips. Blogging tips from some major bloggers. I only read kottke, of those on the list. I think Fallenearth is a bit special in that our blogs do not stand alone... so the tips may not be as applicable. A List Apart. Awesome web design resource has been redesigned and relaunched! Proggy Fonts. Excellent programming fonts. The Sad Story of PNG Gamma "Correction". Must read if you mix PNGs with other image formats on the web and the colors need to match.