learning language with the Sims

You're Not Studying, You're Just...

Less dry than the abstract would suggest, and shorter (in terms of text) than the scrollbar would suggest; it has pictures. :)

In The Beginning Was The Command Line: The 2004 Annotated Version

http://home.earthlink.net/~android606/commandline/index.html

*ponder*

the most beautiful words in the world (reputedly)

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/11/25/1101219683777.html?oneclick=true

I think that it's interesting how the nature of the words (and presumably the motivation for their selection) changes as you go down the list.