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Here are some links and resources I have found useful for doing science

LaTeX Stuff: Install info for Mac and Windows. Here is a very useful LaTeX tutorial and syntax file. JHEP, ReVTeX4 and IoP styles. Stop whinging about how "hard" LaTeX is to use. It's better than Word. Real men use Beamer to write presentations. I use Keynote because it makes things look pretty.

Get a Mac. Stop complaining about how much they cost. Or how Steve Jobs (RIP) has you by the nadgers once you get an apple product. They are awesome products: incredibly well built, marketed and thought through. If you like Unix/Linux, you'll love Mac. It's not up for debate.

How to give a talk that dosnt suck: Slides from David Tong at Cambridge: slides

CosmoCoffee

Cadabra is a great tensor algebra package, using LaTeX syntax for input. Bit of a pain in the butt to install, but well worth it.

People's sites: Rick Newton, Dave Brett, Kurt Hinterbichler (I dont know this guy, but check out his art and theory of everything)(want a link here? email me: jon@jpoffline.com)

Preprints: SPIRES, arXiv, hep-th and astro-ph.CO

BiBTeX from SPIRES: This is a useful script to grab the BiBTeX entry from SPIRES after specifying the arXiv reference.

More nerdy computer stuff: gedit is a good text editor (download for mac). I use Jaxodraw to make schematics - supposed to just be for Feynman diagrams. Chicken of the VNC is a good VNC client for mac. GnuPlot is great (& free) graphing software. Fink is a good distributer thingy for mac. Use it to install, e.g., meld to compare versions of a document. FileZilla is a good FTP clience for mac. Can you tell I like mac? Do you have a mac yet? Why not?

Lecture notes/papers/reviews:

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