Good articles from the Internet.

How to be a graduate student

Mihir Bellare, The Ph.D Experience (www).
Gordon B. Davis, Advising and Supervising Doctoral Students: Lessons I Have Learned (pdf).
Jason F., Give it five minutes (pdf).
Richard Hamming, You and Your Research (pdf from Gabriel Robins's page).
H. T. Kung, Useful Things to Know About Ph.D. Thesis Research (www).
David A. Patterson, How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia Keynote in OSDI '94 (slides).
Estelle M Phillips and Derek S Pugh, How to Get a PhD (Amazon).
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator (Amazon).
Stephen C. Stearns, Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students (www).
Ivan Sutherland, Technology And Courage (www).
Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), A Student Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond (www).
The Ph.D. Grind by Philip Guo (www).

How to be a terrible graduate student

Graeme Hirst, How to be a Terrible Graduate Student (www).

Paper Writing

Simon Peyton Jones, How to write a great research paper (slides).
Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson, Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business (Amazon)
7 Spelling and Grammar Errors that Make You Look Dumb (www).
How to Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected by Jim Kajiya (pdf).
Some Useful Advice on style by Philip Torr (WWW).