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research

Richard P. Feynman: The pleasure of finding things out [Google video]
Richard Wesley Hamming: You and your research

teaching

The Boyer Report: Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
PowerPoint is Evil

bibliographic resources and online archives

ISO List of Title Word Abbreviations: online edition | description
Additional sources for title abbreviations
JSTOR, the scholarly journal archive
Russian/Soviet mathematical papers (free access to Russian originals and links to translations of publications of the USSR (later Russian) Academy of Sciences)
Reviews of papers on MathSciNet
The DjVu format | the wonderful (and free) Any2DjVu online conversion service (with English OCR)

maths

Kolmogorov's Foundations of the Theory of Probability
D.H. Fremlin's treatise on measure theory
Biographies of mathematicians | Photographs of mathematicians and physicists
The Online Encyclopaedia of Mathematics (Springer) | PlanetMath
The Mathematical Atlas
Mathematics Pronunciation Guide
sci.math | The NA-Net

physics

Richard Feynman: The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures (quantum electrodynamics for the layman)

"serious" stuff

How to write a scientific paper
Some common techniques of proof
The mathematical theory of big game hunting
How to prove that all odd numbers are prime
Chicken chicken chicken [pdf]; video
How to become an IEEE author (thanks to Cédric Vonesch)
The case of the 500-mile email
A guide to grading exams

programming

Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL
The Story of Mel
Rob Pike's Notes on Programming in C
Frank Rubin: "GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful [pdf]
csh programming considered harmful
Ed is the standard text editor.
The Jargon File
Numerical: netlib | lp_solve (free mixed integer LP solver) | free linear algebra software

NetBSD

"Of course it runs NetBSD"
pkgsrc | The pkgsrc guide | pkgsrc.se
Tracking NetBSD-current
NetBSD kernel documentation

news and analysis

BBC News
The Independent: Comment
The Guardian: Comment & Debate
The Economist
Big Money

music

Daniel Barenboim: In the Beginning was Sound (BBC Reith Lectures 2006)
Radio Swiss Classic | BBC Radio 3 Classical

online libraries, catalogues, and book search engines

Project Gutenberg | PG Australia
HathiTrust
The Universal Digital Library @ CMU
Google Books
LibraryThing

Persian language resources

Dehkhoda and Mo'in's dictionaries (searchable)
Dehkhoda's Dictionary (alternative version) (searchable)
Classical Persian poetry (searchable)
Computer analysis of Persian grammar
Persian fonts for Mac OS X, X11 (*BSD and Linux), and Windows

misc

Latin for Mountain Men
The Web Accessibility Initiative
World Community Grid
One Laptop per Child