Favourite links [English]

Below is a collection of annoted hyperlinks that I, for one reason or another, I visit frequently enough warrant permantent access to the link.

The resources on this page are all in English. If you read Norwegian, you may also want to look at my Norwegian favourite links.

Organizations

Electronic Frontier Foundation: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an organization campaigning for civil liberties in the online community.
Technorealism: Technorealism is an attempt to think critically about the role that tools and interfaces play in human evolution and everyday life.

First Monday: Since May 1996, f ¡ ® s T - m o ñ d @ ¥ has brought articles, reviews and position statements on science and society from a distinctly postmodern perspective to the Internet community. It was one of the first peer-reviewed journals to appear on the web, and it is one of the most respected. Its contents is indexed by, among others, INSPEC, LISA and PAIS.
PMC – Postmodern Culture: Postmodern Culture is a scientific journal on the web. It brings articles, reviews and position statements on science and society from a postmodern perspective.
Technology Review: Technology Review's mission is to critically examine our use of modern technology, from genetic engineering to the sociology of the information infrastructure. Only selected articles from the original paper based publication are available on the web.

Douglas Adams: Guide to the Macintosh: A blast from the past. Douglas Adams 1987 comparison of feature-packed Microsoft Word 3.0 with minimalistic miniWRITER,
Stephen Cole: Electronic surveillance: Folowing the September 11 2001 attack on the USA, BBC's Stephen Cole conducted an interview with dr. Kevin O'Brian from RAND Europe about why electronic surveillance failed to prevent the attack. This is a transcript of that interview.
Ed Nather: The Story of Mel: The Story of Mel has been praised by Eric Raymond in The New Hacker's Dictionary as: "one of hackerdom's great heroic epics [...] In a few spare images it captures more about the esthetics and psychology of hacking than all the scholarly volumes on the subject put together."
Plato: Phædrus: This dialogue is one of my favourites.
Richard M. Stallman: The Gnu Manifesto: A classic, outlining the rationale behind the Gnu project and Stallman's sentiments on intellectual property rights.