REST Do,s and Don't,s

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1619152/how-to-create-rest-urls-without-verbs...

Creepy things that seem real but aren't

http://crushable.com/tag/creepy-things-that-seem-real-but-arent/

Fountain Codes

http://blog.notdot.net/2012/01/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Fountain-Codes

Static program analysis with LLVM and clang

LLVM and clang include a C code static analyzer called scan-build. Use it calling

 scan-build "make distclean && ./config.sh && make"

More information:

http://grep.be/blog/en/computer/code/static_analysis_with_clang

Lesser known but cool data structures

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/500607/what-are-the-lesser-known-but-cool-dat...

Transcription of Air France 447's black box

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened...

Franz Sedlacek

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2011/12/franz-sedlacek.html

A basic malloc implementation

http://os-blog.com/basic-malloc-implementation/

Parasitistic wasps that zombify their hosts

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_cockroach_wasp
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptapanteles
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoepimecis_argyraphaga

Common REST Mistakes

http://www.prescod.net/rest/mistakes/

A small, inetd-based HTTP server

http://www.sqlite.org/docsrc/artifact/d53e8146bf7977

Nothing new, but it features virtual hosts and CGI.

How to Create a REST Protocol

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/01/restful-web.html

Building Web Services the REST Way

http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html

Versioning REST Web Services

http://barelyenough.org/blog/2008/05/versioning-rest-web-services/

There are more REST entries in that site classified by tags rest-versioning and rest.

Microcaching: speed your app up 250x with no new code (nginx)

http://fennb.com/microcaching-speed-your-app-up-250x-with-no-n

A configuration snippet for using Nginx for caching.

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

Nothing new, but written in a very didactic way.

http://norvig.com/lispy.html

Soylent Green

Javi and Alberto have found that you can buy Soylent Green from Thinkgeek. I'm not sure if it's people, though.

Sergey Tyukanov

http://images.google.es/search?tbm=isch&hl=es&source=hp&biw=1680&...

I don't link directly to the author's home page because it's a Flash monstrosity.

Benford's Law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law

The myth of the 99 cent book

http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/the-myth-of-the-99-cent-book/

Or why I (and another trillion of mediocre artists) don't make a buck selling e-books. We are the long tail. Those authors in the short head may make dumps of money. But the one who is winning billions is the platform.