The IEEE Computer Society is commemorating 25 years of Software magazine. Some of articles are available to nonmembers and some are interesting (feel free to draw your own Venn diagram):
- C's Brian Kernighan on sometimes the old ways are best (he complains about linux breaking wc)
- Niklaus Wirth's (father of Pascal) brief history of software engineering
- and the "top 35" articles published in Software so far. I think I have just found the syllabus for a intro software engineering graduate class :)
Bonus bonus: Technology Review created an oral history of space tourism by interviewing five of the six Soyuz passengers to the space station and interleaving their responses. Just like with commercial airlines, Anousheh Ansari's luggage was lost and she ended up with men's shaving cream and cologne instead of her stuff.
Doesn't it seem like microgravity would be good for back pain? But astronauts frequently complain of lower back pain maybe because the spine decompresses.
