Some Links

Here are some interesting links that I'm browsing this evening, while I sit in programming class and try to ignore everything I'm told about how Java is the ultimate programming language:

• Epsilon-Delta on math and programming.

• Some professor offered his students B's if they would just stop showing up for his overcrowded class. Needless to say, humorless administrators were not amused.

• An interesting article on how Jackie Robinson desegregated America (from National Review, 1996)

• I think from now on I'm going to do all my homework in Shakespeare Lang. Just to mix it up a bit, and keep things interesting.

• The Onion interviews Steven Colbert. Hilarity ensues.

• Chessbase offers a short history of computer chess. Scroll to the bottom, where Gary Kasparov predicts (circa 1991) that a computer will beat the world champion in 2010 (this actually happened when Kasparov lost to IBM's Deep Blue in 1997).

• And while we are talking about chess, Nigel Short must've been smoking crack when he told reporters that he has been playing Bobby Fischer on ICC. But, everyone is allowed a bit of insanity when it comes to idol worship, so let's not be too harsh.