If you're a Charles Stross (or even just a sci-fi) fan you'll appreciate that he has made his latest collection of short stories available for free - Accelerando.

I'm terrible at maths but I can appreciate the beauty in the theorems - this guy has collected the Top 100 Greatest Theorems. I'm almost tempted to add 'as voted for by you the viewer'.

As my mp3 collection is getting a little stale I've started to rip some of my older CD's - as a result of trying to find out some information on the Dead C and Gate I stumbled upon this guide to New Zealand and Japanese 'Noise'. I remember seeing the Dead C open for Sonic Youth and completely blow both the audience and headliners away.

If you want to know why the Mac has such visually appealing software take a look at the level of attention to detail in this post about some extranious pixels that could do with some 'tidying up'. No one in the Windows or Linux world would ever care about this type of thing.

Some cult UK TV - If you grew up in the 70's you'll be familiar with Bernard Quatermass - this UK Sci-Fi drama was truly scarey (not in a nice Dr Who way either). I just discovered that BBC4 remade it recently. Wonder what it was like ? I think the last movie with John Mills was my favourite of the lot. In a similar 70's style its interesting to see that Rumpole of the Bailey has been released on DVD - something strangely appealling about this gentle courtroom drama and Leo McKerns portrayal of the character.

Some discussion on 43Folders about using simpler devices to make life easier - this particular post points to another article over at O'Reilly where Kendall Clark discusses his new Alphasmart Neo. Its interesting that someone pointed out the similarity to the old Apple eMate which is still a favourite for people who want a robust writing solution but don't want the hassle of a laptop. There was a vaguely related article I came across a week or so ago which made a connection between Apples disk-less Nano, falling memory prices and the possibility of moving Apples consumer iBook line to a similar diskless configuration - by removing the hard-drive and making it completely solid-state they could make the laptop smaller, faster and more power efficient - given it will be a few years before Apple transition to x86 this might get them a little more milage from the aging G4 chipset.