An autobiographical comic in two parts by Scott McCloud.

Sports Illustrated's 1961 article on the chess player Lisa Lane.

This looks like an interesting shorthand font to look at sometime.

I grew up listening to Jim Copp Tales.

I think this article spends too much time on the structure and prize purses of top-level women's tournaments, which simply aren't the real barriers to women in chess, but it's otherwise good. I don't think I'd ever even heard of Lisa Lane before.

An enjoyable personal essay about the time Bobby Fischer visited Little Rock to play a simul.

Erasure: only checks types at compile time
Reification: type checking at run-time

Adam Bard started a little web service that now makes $1,000/mo. This is the sort of thing I need to do.

I like these little introductions (at least the few I've read so far)

Saw these neat photographic recreations of Byte magazine cover paintings on a recent episode of EEVBlog.

Good interview with Chris Hannah (23:24)

A hound dog ran a small-town half marathon of its own accord and finished 7th (1:32:56).

John Fegyveresi's report on becoming a Barkley Marathons finisher (this is the year covered by the documentary The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young).

Copyleft engineering and programming texts by James M. Fiore.

I'm impressed at how close Brian's conversion factor is to the formula derived by fivethirtyeight/slate from their surveys (at least for me @ 55 mpw).

Reviews of the 2009 Boulder Backroads Marathon (also on previous page). I ran this race and blew up at mile 20 and had to walk the last 10K; it was hot (90F) and I didn't pace myself or hydrate accordingly.

Matt Fitzgerald's thoughts on marathon pacing.

Pete Pfitzinger's guide to marathon pacing.

An interview with Hou Yifan and Judit Polgar about women in chess.