research
Richard P. Feynman: The pleasure of finding things out (Google Videos)
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
work
general bibliographic resources and online archives
ISO List of Title Word Abbreviations: online edition | description
Additional sources for title abbreviations
JSTOR, the scholarly journal archive
A front for the arXiv
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 of physicists
The Online Encyclopaedia of Mathematics (Springer) | PlanetMath | Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics (Google Books)
Matrix Reference Manual
The Mathematical Atlas
Mathematics Pronunciation Guide
bibliographies/reviews: MathSciNet (subscription-based) | ZMATH (free)
Russian/Soviet mathematical papers (free access to the originals and links to translations) | NUMDAM: open-access archive of French mathematical papers
Archives de l'Association des Collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki
TeXify/deTeXify (unrelated services) | The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
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
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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 Chart
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
Google Books
LibraryThing
Persian language resources
Dehkhoda's 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