Misc

CB expounds
Chris Brown on CS in a liberal arts education.
I've TA'ed for Chris a number of times, both as a grad and back when he was my undergraduate advisor. His gist is that college in the US should be about thinking, not about training. This is a perspective shared by many, but unfortunately one that seems to often be acquired only after the fact, coupled with a healthy dose of regret.
Software KVM
A how-to on setting up a wireless KVM between a laptop and desktop.
Alternatively, think about it as multi-machine, dual display.
Setting up ssh keys
A how-to on setting up ssh keys such that you need not type in passwords when connecting from one machine to another.
This is especially useful if you are doing regular work on a cluster of machines and are constantly bouncing across the nodes to check/run experiments.
A comment on Wikipedia
An interesting article written by a past editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia Britannica on the merits (or lack there-of) of Wikipedia.
Solution to Wikipedia vandalism
By the author of the dinosaur comics; this fix can't fail. More seriously, it is exciting to see epistemological discussions in 'popular' media. The ongoing debate on the goodness of Wikipedia has made a lot of people give at least a passing thought to what the word 'knowledge' really means.
Not Exploited
While academia for the Computer Scientist is certainly still more viable than it is for this guy, the tone set in the article is a good one. As someone who left a lucrative software engineering position, and is in the middle of a second graduate program, I tend to agree with his points (as compared to alternative views) .