The Beauty of Semantic Markup, Part 2: strong, b, em, i ~ A Blog Not Limited
A great bit of research from Emily. She correctly values data more than opinion.
Link archive: August 6th, 2010
Early History of HTML - 1990 to 1992
A wonderful document outlining the earliest history of the tags we know and love today.
CS404
This looks like an excellent event: learn about programming without being a programmer.