Unfortunately work-related activities having been taking up a lot of my time and energy over the past couple of weeks. On the good side I’m gradually making progress towards figuring out this grad school thing. While work on a funny and insightful blog post to blow you all away I leave with you a brief tour of the Intertubes.

Society

It’s not gender warfare, it’s math Being a computer science graduate student I’m regularly confronted by the fact that there are not enough women in our field (and that doesn’t seem to be changing any time soon). Here’s a look at why and that needs to change and some work in the right direction.

The Fraying of a Nation’s Decency Sometimes we just need a reminder that we’re all human after all.

Web Technology

10 best @font-face fonts I think embeddable web fonts are one of the best things to have happened to the web in recent years. Think of this article as a good “getting started” guide if you’re trying to figure out what fonts to use for your own projects.

How to make a simple HTML5 Canvas game The canvas element is an even bigger improvement than web fonts. Like the name suggests, it gives you a general purpose drawing element on a web page. Combine that with fast JavaScript engines and you have a pretty decent game engine on your hands.

Video

QuakeCon 2011 John Carmack keynote If you’re interested in gaming engines or high-performance, down-and-dirty programming then you should take the hour and half to listen to John Carmack — the brains behind the Doom and Quake game engines.