Links

Further reading:

http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/lva/rus/CellulareAutomaten/gol.htm (german)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life (Wikipedia english)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Spiel_des_Lebens (Wikipedia german)

first 'Life' article from 'Scientific American' 223 (October 1970):

http://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/october1970.html

Life Lexicon (english):

http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/lexicon/

Play Life online:

http://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/

a YouTube Video in two parts:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FdMzngWchDk http://youtube.com/watch?v=k2IZ1qsx4CM

Turing machine:

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~bulitko/F02/papers/tm_words.pdf