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(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.

Treaps: a simple balanced binary tree

http://pavpanchekha.com/programming/treap.html

Things could be worse (Tragedy series)

http://tragedyseries.tumblr.com

God adds an entry on His blog about world's creation, and then there are some comments

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/08/08/110808sh_shouts_simms?mbid=social_retw...

Mazes, mirrors, deception and denial: an in-depth analysis of Kubrick's "The Shining"

http://www.collativelearning.com/the%20shining.html

Ken Reid

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2011/07/ken-reid-world-wide-weirdies-1970s.htm...

H. P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/07/h-p-lovecrafts-commonplace-book/

Hollow Earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth

A regular expression matcher in 30 lines of C

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/beautiful.html

By Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan no less.

Q. William Bacon (the Linc Chanes chapters)

http://qwilliambacon.com/

Who is behind these mind-bending stories?

The upside down alphabet

Just in case I forget:

 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
 eq)paj6y!fk7wuodbjs+n^mxhz

http://www.google.es/search?q=paj6y

Incidental Comics

http://thoughtballoonhelium.blogspot.com/

Cotard delusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion

Skip Lists

ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/skipLists/

Mysterious number 6174

http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue38/features/nishiyama/index

Morgellons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons