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).

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.