The Fermi Paradox, Self-Replicating Probes, and the Interstellar Transportation Bandwidth
Re-examining Von Neumann probes, reconciling their apparent scarcity with the Fermi paradox.
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The Myths of Mobile Context by Josh Clark
A PDF of the slides (with copious notes) from Josh’s brilliant presentation. I love this guy!
HF/DF An Allied Weapon against German U-Boats 1939-1945
A 2004 paper on huffduffing.
jQuery Enlightenment | by Cody Lindley | 1st Edition | based on jQuery 1.3.2
A $15 PDF book on jQuery from Cody Lindley.
droidMAKER: DROIDMAKER book now downloadable, FREE!
A free PDF of the inside story of George Lucas, his intensely private company, and their work to revolutionize filmmaking. Discover the birth of Pixar, digital video editing, videogame avatars, THX sound, and a host of other icons of the media age.
Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction
Download the PDF of this essay from the Near Future Laboratory and wallow in the sci-fi/tech/design goodness.
Hamish Hamilton: Five Dials
A beautiful PDF literary magazine, designed to be printed out and read away from the computer. I'd still love to see an HTML version.
Bloomsbury Academic
Lawrence Lessig's newest book, Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy, is now available as a free PDF download.
SitePoint : The Bushfire Relief Sale
For three days you can buy 5 PDF books for the price of 1 from Sitepoint and your money will go to the victims of the bushfires.
QuirksBlog: Slides from acessible Ajax workshop at Fundamentos Web
Download a PDF of PPK's slides from his JavaScript workshop at Fundamentos Web. There's some good advice contained therein.
jQuery 1.2 Cheat Sheet :: www.gscottolson.com/weblog/
A handy cheat sheet of jQuery methods to print out and keep on hand.
QuirksBlog: VTM slides
Here are the slides from PPK's talk this morning at the Voices That Matter conference. It's all good JavaScript advice.
How To Mix Fonts: Typeface Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet for combining typefaces. No hard and fast rules but a handy guide to print out and use.
Five Simple Steps: Designing for the Web
Mark Boulton is self-publishing a PDF book on design. Let the eager anticipation begin.
oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Using Microformats
Brian's PDF book on microformats is now available from O'Reilly for $9.99. Congratulations, Mr. Suda!
suda.co.uk/projects/microformats [Cheat Sheet]
Just in case you haven't seen Brian's microformats cheat sheet, here it is. Print and keep by your desk.
Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
The PDF book of the T-shirt of the philosophy from 37 Signals. There are 4 chapters online for you to sample.
Tim's WSG Ajax Presentation
Download the PDF of the slides and play around with the demo from Tim Lucas' recent presentation.