John Fegyveresi's report on becoming a Barkley Marathons finisher (this is the year covered by the documentary The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young).

Copyleft engineering and programming texts by James M. Fiore.

I'm impressed at how close Brian's conversion factor is to the formula derived by fivethirtyeight/slate from their surveys (at least for me @ 55 mpw).

Reviews of the 2009 Boulder Backroads Marathon (also on previous page). I ran this race and blew up at mile 20 and had to walk the last 10K; it was hot (90F) and I didn't pace myself or hydrate accordingly.

Matt Fitzgerald's thoughts on marathon pacing.

Pete Pfitzinger's guide to marathon pacing.

An interview with Hou Yifan and Judit Polgar about women in chess.

This article argues that drinking sports drinks doesn't really prevent hyponatremia.

I do benefit from Gatorade during a high-effort activity, but I guess it is probably more the carbohydrates than the electrolytes.

This series of posts argues that muscle cramps are the result of fatigue, not a lack of electrolytes.

After my first marathon, where my calves completely cramped up and I walked the last 10km, I bought into the electrolyte theory. But now I think it was just heat- and dehydration-enhanced fatigue.

I usually prefer text articles to instructional videos, but Vimcast screencasts are very nice.

Another great IC photo and write up from Ken Shirriff which explains how Intel's 8087 used different gate widths in its ROM to encode two-bits of information per address.

Python's syntax for nested list comprehensions always seemed backwards to me; here's an explanation for why it is the way it is. I still think nested for-loops are easier to read.

“Sorry, but I won the Boston Marathon,” Kawauchi told his boss. “Is it possible to have another day off?”

Very nice online electronics textbook.

Adrian S. Nastase's weblog has some nice, short introductory articles.

Introductory tutorials on many electronics topics. I don't know who wrote these, but it is now one of the many EE websites owned by Aarow/AspenCore.

Mr. Squishy re-implemented the Gameboy game Pokemon Red in Minecraft.

Here's an interview and video showing how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-U96W89Z90

Fish slapping the 2014 Imogene Pass Run.

Everything you wanted to know about enumerating states of the game 2048 in one series of posts by John Lees-Miller.

After writing my first small golan program, this all rings true to me.