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- Cards from Lambda the Gathering.
- A review by Anthony Flew of Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion.
- Pages from a memoir of Charles Augustus Murray with information about his time at Oxford.
- The short version of a eulogy for my father, Norman Spivey. Also, a copy of his article about his own radio design, first published in Sprat, the journal of the G-QRP club for low-power radio communications. If I'd been able to do it, a copy of the article would have been on each seat at the funeral service, for mourners to take away and enjoy later.
- How to play a guessing game.
- A completely useless set of scripts for Oxbridge CS interviews. (The real interviews are a lot less intimidating than this, I promise.)
- An article about Harriot's solution to a map projection problem.
- The Christ Church seven.
- In memoriam John Simopoulos.
- The ACM Forum letters column from CACM, November 1979; containing responses to the De Millo, Lipton, Perlis article, and especially a letter from W. D. Maurer that is the source of test case
tMaurer.m
in OBC. - Two articles, from Radio Electronics and Practical Electronics about noughts and crosses machines.
- Documents connected to the 1860 Wilberforce–Huxley encounter.
- My collection of back issues of the Oxford Magazine.
- A Kripke kōan.
- Some apt quotations.
- The text of a sermon about Thomas Harriot preached in Oriel College Chapel on 21st October 2012.
- Obfuscated PDF.
- Notes about the Tangerine Tree, a collection of Tangerine Dream bootleg recordings.
- Code for Lunar Lander.
- Printing the New Testament in Greek.
- Euro-lock with a slipped cam.
- Wisdom from Planet Tom.
- Barbaric coordinates.
- Offer bot.