This site provides a free physics textbook that tells the story of how it became possible, after 2500 years of exploration, to answer such questions. The book is written for the curious: it is entertaining, surprising and challenging on every page.
a book about the aesthetics of videogames — what they share with cinema, the history of painting, or literature; and what makes them different, in terms of form, psychology and semiotics. It was first published in 2000; this is the revised edition with
There are currently 290+ games with runs listed at Speed Demos Archive. Gaming at record breaking speed. Some amazing stuff, like Super Mario 1 in just over 5 mins!!
an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster, local cache, prefetching, data compression. Currently a Google Labs product. (probably good for very slow connections and as a general proxy)
The NOVA mini-series The Elegant Universe, watch all three one hour episodes here, divided into chapters, available in the QuickTime or RealPlayer plug-ins.
by Robert L Read - To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one's coworkers and customers.
Cambridge University Press by Paul Taylor - Practical Foundations collects the methods of construction of the objects of twentieth century mathematics, teasing out the logical structure that underpins the informal way in which mathematicians actually do