Paxos is a family of protocols for solving consensus in a network of unreliable processors. Consensus is the process of agreeing on one result among a group of participants. This problem becomes difficult when the participants or their communication medium may experience failures.

Looks like an interesting story.

The full, official summary of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009"

Explanation of how MP3s are structured and writing a decoder for them in Haskell.