Excellent instruments for building, capturing, and examining informational things

  • A unix machine (apple-flavored ones are especially splendid).
  • Rapidweaver (what I currently use for constructing this site).
  • emacs
  • perl
  • For papers: pdfLaTeX + bibTeX + perl + xfig
  • revTeX
  • For presentations: beamer
  • matlab
  • C