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The story of the Colorado trail runner who survived an attack by a juvenile mountain lion (the full 21-minute interview is at the bottom of the article).

A young mountain lion attacked a trail runner in Colorado.

How to generate epub books from docbook documents.

Across The Board: a series of interviews conducted by Dominic Lawson over a game of chess

A comprehensive writeup for a simple Othello engine with cross-platform GUI.

On chess livestreamers. I watch some of these people.

An autobiographical comic in two parts by Scott McCloud.

Sports Illustrated's 1961 article on the chess player Lisa Lane.

This looks like an interesting shorthand font to look at sometime.

I grew up listening to Jim Copp Tales.

I think this article spends too much time on the structure and prize purses of top-level women's tournaments, which simply aren't the real barriers to women in chess, but it's otherwise good. I don't think I'd ever even heard of Lisa Lane before.

An enjoyable personal essay about the time Bobby Fischer visited Little Rock to play a simul.

Erasure: only checks types at compile time
Reification: type checking at run-time

Adam Bard started a little web service that now makes $1,000/mo. This is the sort of thing I need to do.

I like these little introductions (at least the few I've read so far)

Saw these neat photographic recreations of Byte magazine cover paintings on a recent episode of EEVBlog.

Good interview with Chris Hannah (23:24)

A hound dog ran a small-town half marathon of its own accord and finished 7th (1:32:56).