Portal 2 Soundtrack
Valve is giving away the Portal 2 soundtrack on the Portal website. You should go get it, for science.
Portal 2 Soundtrack
Free software
Probability and Statistics for Programmers
An ebook, Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers, teaches statistics through hands on programming oriented exercises.
You can find a data set used in the book here.
Microsoft Sho
Microsoft Research just released Sho, a marriage of .NET and Python. I would try it out, but I need to upgrade before I can run it.
A Free Web Graphics Package
Protovis uses JavaScript and SVG to make excellent web graphics. A snapshot of their example gallery is below.
Microsoft Graphing Calculator now Free
Courtesy of Jerry Pournelle, I found out today that Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 is now free. It used to be $20.
I've never used it, so I have no idea of its utility versus other free applications that do the same thing, but we all like free. Microsoft
Linus Torvald's Greatest Invention
Is git.
Mark Dominus has a talk with slides online that I found absolutely fascinating.
John Wiegley has a more in-depth explanation of git for those who need to know the details.
Free Books
Two free ebooks today.
The first is Breaking the Law of Averages, an introductory statistics book that I recomment. Matt Briggs approaches the subject in a wholly modern way, relying on your computer to do the math, allowing the student to focus on the more important task of understanding what