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Reading

  • Graham Farmelo (Editor): It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science

    Graham Farmelo (Editor): It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science

  • Guy  Kawasaki: The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

    Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

  • Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters

    Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters

  • Gary Wolf: Wired - A Romance

    Gary Wolf: Wired - A Romance

  • Elizabeth Castro: Creating a Web Page with HTML : Visual QuickProject Guide (Visual Quickproject Series)

    Elizabeth Castro: Creating a Web Page with HTML : Visual QuickProject Guide (Visual Quickproject Series)

  • Douglas Coupland: Hey Nostradamus! : A Novel

    Douglas Coupland: Hey Nostradamus! : A Novel

  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

  • Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon

    Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon

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Icons: the history

The History of Icons at GUIdebook, with ilustrations of the most traditional and funny icons for almost every operative system: from Lisa to Mac OS X and also Windows, NeXT, OS/2, BeOS and Linux.

(Via Slashdot.)

Posted by Alvy on 04/04/2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers

There are at least sixteen of them: codes and ciphers that just resisted all cryptoanalisis over time. All of them are listed in Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers waiting for somebody to solve them. Some are quite well know, like the Voynich Manuscript. The list also includes the pending RSA challenges, altough some of the not-so-strong versions have been solved in the past years.

Posted by Alvy on 05/20/2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)