Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-9-2010

[andrewducker]

• Man seeks restraining order against police so that they can't stop him killing abortion doctors.
  (tags: abortion usa EpicFail)
• F# Basics - An Introduction to Functional Programming for .NET Developers
  (tags: f# .net microsoft)
• Clelia Mosher - Victorian Sex Scholar
  (tags: history sexuality feminism sex research science gender)
• Apple rejects app for being too usable, insists on downgrade.
  (tags: apple EpicFail)
• I'm voting Labour, founder of Tory gay rights group says she will vote Labour in protest.
  (tags: lgbt election equality gay politics)

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Hearty assent -- the most admirable instructional book in my former professional field (ornamental horticulture) was an early edition of "The Sunset Magazine Western Garden Book". The writers obviously assumed both that the readers would be reasonably intelligent and would know practically nothing about the subject. And they arranged their presentation in such a way that you could start skimming rapidly, then slow down when you reached your level, and find what you need to know. I've not been forunate enough to find such works in the general computer field.