A cool set of JUnit extensions with a nice set of utility methods and classes to check for correct implementation of methods such as equals and compareTo.

A cool tool that searches through the Flickr DBs and finds pictures by you (or any other user) that were in the top 500 interestingness on any given day. Two of mine have “hit the big time” so far.

A very nice open source office package for Mac OS X; essentially a repackaging of OpenOffice for Macs.

An interesting study of different academic writing strategies. I definitely lean towards the oil painting strategy myself.

What looks like a very nice collection of Java tools packaged up for use with yum/rpm for RedHat systems.

An excellent overview of the key ideas of extreme programming/agile development.

Ron Jeffries’ site on XP. I really don’t like the design, but there’s a lot of good content hiding in there.

Ron Jeffries’ personal blog.

A pretty cool company with some people doing good stuff in the world of XP and agile development.

Martin Fowler’s nice history/summary of the movement to XP and agile development.

A huge pile of bits and pieces written by Robert Martin. If only I had time to read them all!

It’s a very cool book. We’ve used it as the textbook in our Software Design and Development course for several years now, and I highly recommend it.

Cool, short and to the point. I should hang it on many of the visible surfaces in my life.

A nice article on the importance of practice (in relation to theory) in software design and development (or, arguably, in any sphere where a key measure of success is what you get done). This is certainly similar to my experien

A cool charter allowing generally free and open access to any of the articles printed in any of their journals. Why aren’t CSci people more on top of these kinds of things? We’re so 1970′s sometimes :-(.

A potentially interesting article using genetic programming to aid in data mining of protein function data. Might be good for our bioinformatics course next year.

A potentially interesting article examining the structural differences between social networks and things like computer networks and reaction networks in biology and chemistry.

A nice scholarship that we have someone applying for, and I’ll need to write a letter of recommendation.

A cool map of the townships and railroad lines in Minnesota in 1874. This is potentially quite useful in Sub-Evil’s history project looking at the history of our house.

An 1898 railway map of Minnesota that shows how the railways had grown in the 20 or so years since the previously bookmarked map.

A cool collection of historic maps of Minnesota.

The Library of Congress map collections page, where you can access a whole bunch of cool old maps.

An on-line version of an interesting (if somewhat dated) book. The chapter on information theory is quite nice.

A helpful article on information entropy, which might be useful in the research Ellery and I are doing. Has anyone done research looking at the entropy in a population over time? It seems they must have, but nothing comes to mind and I’m too busy to go

The definition of entropy that is apparently used to measure biodiversity. This would seem more closely related to what we want in Evolutionary Computation, but it wasn’t immediately clear to me how the details work out. I found the entry a bit fuzzy, b

An interesting article on travelling in Alaska in the footsteps of John Muir, who made three trips there in the late 1800′s. Given that we’re going next summer, this looks like cool stuff. And they put in a plug for Dancing Man Ulu knives like the one w