Reading

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Singularlity science fiction

The following books are great reads and free downloads:

• Accelerando http://www.accelerando.org , Charles Stross

• The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (MOPI) http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/index.html by Roger Williams

both of which just happen to be quite kinky sexually.

• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (DOMK) http://craphound.com/down/ and the followup Truncat by Cory Doctorow

Epic Science Fiction

Then there's all of Vernor Vinge's work .. which is not so much free as available

• A Fire Upon the Deep

The genius of Niven and Pournelle:

• The Mote in God's Eye and the followup The Gripping Hand

Or perhaps just Niven:

• Ringworld Saga

Frank Herbert:

• Dune

Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson , et alia

• other Dune Books

Brin's

• Uplift series
• Earth

Cyberpunk

Gibson:

• Neuromancer trilogy, Bridge trilogy Stephenson:
• Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon and the more interesting post-cyberpunk: Gibson:
• Pattern Recognition, Spook Country And Stephensopn's pre-cyberpunk:
• The Baroque Cycle

Webcomics

I more or less keep up with these stories:

• DresdenCodak
• QuestionableContent
• GeniusGirl
• GodsOfAK and have given up on these, at least for the time being:
• MegaTokyo
• Sluggy
• UserFriendly

xkcd is very funny, but usually just one-shots

and I thought AcidReflux was quite good but it stopped

Gadgets

• Sidekick II hiptop by Danger Computing

• Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

• Palm Zire 72 PDA

• Sony PSP

Software

System Software

• BeOS: Zeta, Syllable, Haiku

Three D

* OpenCroquet

• SecondLife, OpenSim

Games

WebGames

• KingdomofLoathing (KoL)