I found a couple of interesting programming languages while browsing around last night. The first would be SPL: The Shakespeare Programming Language. It’s pretty far out, considering that every program reads like a play. It seems like it’d be good for confusing someone, since it’s actually human-readable. And the ‘plays’ make some sort of odd sense, even though they are composed mostly of insults.

For another odd programming language, there is Perligata… which is Perl that can be written in Latin.  It’d probably make Perl programming somewhat easier for me, if I could ever figure out Latin. Ah well.

And then if you want to get really obscure,  there is Whitespace. All programs are composed entirely of spaces, tabs and new lines. Anything else gets ignored. I can’t wrap my head around how this works, but it apparently does (at least enough to write some sample programs available on the site).  It’s downright crazy, if you ask me.

Of course, if those aren’t enough to make you go crazy, you can always go check out more weird programming languages.

Personally? I think I’ll stick to ‘normal’ languages… and likely count myself (slightly) saner for it.

I file this under ‘programming’ and ‘toys and games’ since when you’re programming games, you often have to find sounds to go with your program. Logical, yes?

FindSounds is a great site for searching for various sounds in different formats. There is no guarantee that the audio files will be copyright free or GPL-able, but at least it’s a good start!

I know I’ve used this site before to search for sounds to use as sounds on my personal computer.

Don’t you hate when you lose the remote? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could, oh, say store that information on your computer and never lose it? Or how about being able to control various parts of your computer (such as a music player) via remote?

If so, and you’re electronically inclined, go check out LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control). If I tried to explain it all, I wouldn’t do as good a job as they did.

Go check it out and never lose your remote again, you geek you.

This time, I bring you FreeBookZone. Free Book Zone not only has free computer science books, but books on things like engineering and more than one science. Want some novels? There are some there, too.

There isn’t a huge selection, but it is something worth taking a look at, if only to see if there is something new.

It’s always good to have more than one source for things, so I present another site with free tech books. They also have lists of free magazines you can either subscribe to or get a free trial of. Some of the magazines are in print, some are just online, but they’re certainly worth checking out.

It’s nice to have everything you need, in one place when you’re trying to do anything computer related. Trying to search all over the internet can be fruitful, but can take quite awhile.

That’s where books come in. Books are great. Despite the popularity of websites and electronic copies, I still say that there is nothing like a hard copy of something. I find it much easier to bookmark a particular place and come back to it later than with something on the computer.

On the other hand, sometimes you can’t get your hands on a hard copy for whatever reason. In that case, you might want to try looking at these free computer books online.

There are multiple topics covered (many dozen, in fact), and even links to other book sites. It’s definitely worth a look.

One good thing about books, as opposed to websites, you can print out an electronic book. It’s a bit more difficult, though still doable, to print out a complete website.