This article deals with self-publishing a book, in a variety of forms. It covers writing, editing, proofreading, and has technical points on preparing a manuscript. Writing itself Before you can publish it you have to write it. There are two ways you can do this: write it your…

Quine (the Quine Programming Language) is a programming language for writing quines, or rather, one specific quine. Quine (at Github) is based on a virtual machine that contains a buffer holding the previous token, a main queue which can hold arbitrary tokens, and a standard out…

*Because everyone has a theory about the broken state of education* Can the knowledge or skills in a field be broken down into discrete atoms of knowledge? If so, can we: - Learn those atoms of knowledge (or atoms of skill) - **Assess** our current knowledge/abilities with thos…

A small, self-contained universe; or a universe reached through a small opening — such as the cupboard in the lion the witch and the wardrobe. (Do not view source of this page.) See also - Paracosm…

The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. —Famous Smart Alec, Samuel Clemens Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog, in the end they both die. —Woody Allen I used to believe that jokes stopped being funny when they were analyzed. But since becoming a father I…