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"Anyway, I've thought about time travel rather more than anyone probably should..."

What you've really done is summarize the thoughts of Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking more than anyone probably should.

If you like those conflicts, you may like L.E. Modesitt's Timegod series.
Two-book set on Amazon
I only read The Timegod, and in searching for it found there was another (see link). Kinda fluffy, but interesting ideas. Deals with a civilization who can dance about time, live millions of years, and have "time police" (I forget what they call them) that monitor the universe to look for civilizations that are entering "high tech" periods and could threaten/discover their civilization. They either alter the civilizations path, or destroy it. If the other civilizations had good technology, they would steal it.
I may have to read it again! Quick read, read it on the bus during my commute in a week or two.

You should check out Pastwatch: The redemption of Christopher Columbus by O.S. Card. http://www.amazon.com/Pastwatch-Redemption-Christo pher-Columbus-Orson/dp/0812508645/sr=8-1/qid=11636 89220/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4722896-3276720?ie=UTF8& s=books

The Mythical Man Month - Fred Brookes
The truth about project management. Written in 1975 and we still haven't learnt.

If you like the The Mythical Man Month, you'll love the 20th Anniversay Edition, in which Brooks candidly reports where he was wrong in the original.

He sticks with his thesis that there's no "silver bullet" to speed up software development but he admits his project planning advice has been largely superceded.

The book is still indespensable but I would add one other revision to his thesis that large projects are fundamentally different from small projects. For those of us who are only involved in small projects, it is interesting how much of what he describes applies to writing a 10-line shell script.

This is the only book on Assembly you need, and it covers linux at the back.

I don't need to "read the article"

Glad that your memory is better than mine!

That's interesting. I always thought that Motorola 6502s were just a second-source on the chip - one of more than a dozen second-sources. They certainly didn't sell any that I ever saw, presumably preferring instead to push their own 6800/6802/6809 (now THAT was a nice 8-bitter!)

Here's another article for you to not read ;-) It doesn't mention that Moto got "the right to build them, with little or no royalty to MOS Technology", merely a dropping of the 6800-pin-compatible 6501, plus a $200K payment to Motorola. I must confess that I haven't read all of On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore", but I did read the bits about MOS Technology (remember that Commodore owned them from 1976 on), and no mention is made of reduced-royalty manufacturing rights being ceded to Motorola as a result of the 6501 lawsuit. (Moto were also miffed that the 6520 PIA was an almost exact copy of their 6820, but they let that one slide as it wasn't a CPU.) That book, btw, is quite entertaining, if a tad long. Did you know that Bill Mensch did the 6501 chip layout by hand (no CAD systems back then!) and got it working first time? Amazing. Sometimes it takes me two attempts to tie my shoelaces! Plus they had some 10MHz 6502s running in 1976. Yes, ten megahertz.

Anyway, enough of my wafflings - this has been a good trip down memory lane :-)

Chapter XII

Mediumship -- Mrs. Leonard (1)

We have seen that one factor in particular seems to encourage the emergence of /psi/. That is faith of some kind in something. Mrs. Curran implicitly believed that Patience Worth was the disembodied spirit she claimed to be. In both the Holland and Willett scripts the purported Myers and his friends insisted that the automatists' belief in their reality immensely increased their powers to communicate. Conversely, hostility and doubt on the part of any one involved, including the investigator, is water to flame, even in the case of straightforward experimental ESP between the living.

Beyond the Reach of Sense: An Inquiry into Extra-Sensory Perception, pg 95 (emphasis added)

CLR is a very good book, but I've always considered AHU (Aho, Hopcroft, Ullman) to be better. It's more rigorous, in my opinion. Another good algorithms book is "Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms" by Horowitz and Sahni, which I would rate just slightly below CLR.

I was kind of wondering the same thing.

There are several non-tech books that I'd add to the list, but they're not for everyone. Besides being a software developer, among other things, I am also a student of strategy and find that it has quite a few applications in circumstances other than combat (though it certainly helps there as well).

Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
Thirty-six Strategies Of Ancient China
The Prince
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - While a bit on the long side, I find it to be an excellent read and it also gives examples of some of the concepts from the first two books in the list in use.

Then, on the lighter side of things, I'd toss in things like the following two (Carlin is always good for a laugh as well as to get you to think about some things)
Brain Droppings
Napalm and Silly Putty

I was kind of wondering the same thing.

There are several non-tech books that I'd add to the list, but they're not for everyone. Besides being a software developer, among other things, I am also a student of strategy and find that it has quite a few applications in circumstances other than combat (though it certainly helps there as well).

Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
Thirty-six Strategies Of Ancient China
The Prince
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - While a bit on the long side, I find it to be an excellent read and it also gives examples of some of the concepts from the first two books in the list in use.

Then, on the lighter side of things, I'd toss in things like the following two (Carlin is always good for a laugh as well as to get you to think about some things)
Brain Droppings
Napalm and Silly Putty

I was kind of wondering the same thing.

There are several non-tech books that I'd add to the list, but they're not for everyone. Besides being a software developer, among other things, I am also a student of strategy and find that it has quite a few applications in circumstances other than combat (though it certainly helps there as well).

Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
Thirty-six Strategies Of Ancient China
The Prince
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - While a bit on the long side, I find it to be an excellent read and it also gives examples of some of the concepts from the first two books in the list in use.

Then, on the lighter side of things, I'd toss in things like the following two (Carlin is always good for a laugh as well as to get you to think about some things)
Brain Droppings
Napalm and Silly Putty

I was kind of wondering the same thing.

There are several non-tech books that I'd add to the list, but they're not for everyone. Besides being a software developer, among other things, I am also a student of strategy and find that it has quite a few applications in circumstances other than combat (though it certainly helps there as well).

Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
Thirty-six Strategies Of Ancient China
The Prince
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - While a bit on the long side, I find it to be an excellent read and it also gives examples of some of the concepts from the first two books in the list in use.

Then, on the lighter side of things, I'd toss in things like the following two (Carlin is always good for a laugh as well as to get you to think about some things)
Brain Droppings
Napalm and Silly Putty

I was kind of wondering the same thing.

There are several non-tech books that I'd add to the list, but they're not for everyone. Besides being a software developer, among other things, I am also a student of strategy and find that it has quite a few applications in circumstances other than combat (though it certainly helps there as well).

Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
Thirty-six Strategies Of Ancient China
The Prince
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - While a bit on the long side, I find it to be an excellent read and it also gives examples of some of the concepts from the first two books in the list in use.

Then, on the lighter side of things, I'd toss in things like the following two (Carlin is always good for a laugh as well as to get you to think about some things)
Brain Droppings
Napalm and Silly Putty

I was kind of wondering the same thing.

There are several non-tech books that I'd add to the list, but they're not for everyone. Besides being a software developer, among other things, I am also a student of strategy and find that it has quite a few applications in circumstances other than combat (though it certainly helps there as well).

Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
Thirty-six Strategies Of Ancient China
The Prince
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - While a bit on the long side, I find it to be an excellent read and it also gives examples of some of the concepts from the first two books in the list in use.

Then, on the lighter side of things, I'd toss in things like the following two (Carlin is always good for a laugh as well as to get you to think about some things)
Brain Droppings
Napalm and Silly Putty

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
ISBN 0811825558

Here's an excerpt:
How to Wrestle Free from an Alligator: 4. If its jaws are closed on something you want to remove (for example, a limb), tap or punch it on the snout.

Mathematical Models by H. M. Cundy, A. P. Rollett
A 55 year old textbook that has stood the test of time amazingly well. If you've ever wanted to make a paper model of a stellated icosadodecahedron, this book will tell you how, and if you haven't ever wanted to, then you soon will. The mix of slightly dry writing from english mathematics professors, high math and solid tips on the best way to manufacture glass nibs for a twin-elliptic harmonograph really captured my imagination as a child, and I was soon adapting my lego railway set to draw Lissajous's figures. Even now, some of the math is beyond me, but the fact that the book explains everything in terms of physical models and their manufacture makes the hard parts seem very much within reach. The final section on computing is perhaps only of historical interest, unless you fancy making an and gate the hard way, but it (like the rest of the book) undoubtedly has charm, an adjective that can rarely be applied to math textbooks!

The Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford
A celebration of post-war British engineering. Spufford takes 6 examples of British Boffinhood and narrates the events in a style that I found unputdownable. While you probably know how some of the events covered will turn out (Concorde doesn't get cancelled in the 1970s, and the two 1980s geeks do manage to finish writing "Elite" for the BBC micro) others, like the take of the British independent space programme might be more of a surprise.

Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
More history of geekdom, this time a history of Fremat's Last Theorem. The math is presented in a form your mom would be able to follow, so this is one to read fro fun rather than enlightenment, but Singh really tells a tale well, and Andrew Wiles becomes the unlikely hero in a true story of mathematical genius, triumph, tials and tribulations (whatever a tribulation might be).

Mathematical Models by H. M. Cundy, A. P. Rollett
A 55 year old textbook that has stood the test of time amazingly well. If you've ever wanted to make a paper model of a stellated icosadodecahedron, this book will tell you how, and if you haven't ever wanted to, then you soon will. The mix of slightly dry writing from english mathematics professors, high math and solid tips on the best way to manufacture glass nibs for a twin-elliptic harmonograph really captured my imagination as a child, and I was soon adapting my lego railway set to draw Lissajous's figures. Even now, some of the math is beyond me, but the fact that the book explains everything in terms of physical models and their manufacture makes the hard parts seem very much within reach. The final section on computing is perhaps only of historical interest, unless you fancy making an and gate the hard way, but it (like the rest of the book) undoubtedly has charm, an adjective that can rarely be applied to math textbooks!

The Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford
A celebration of post-war British engineering. Spufford takes 6 examples of British Boffinhood and narrates the events in a style that I found unputdownable. While you probably know how some of the events covered will turn out (Concorde doesn't get cancelled in the 1970s, and the two 1980s geeks do manage to finish writing "Elite" for the BBC micro) others, like the take of the British independent space programme might be more of a surprise.

Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
More history of geekdom, this time a history of Fremat's Last Theorem. The math is presented in a form your mom would be able to follow, so this is one to read fro fun rather than enlightenment, but Singh really tells a tale well, and Andrew Wiles becomes the unlikely hero in a true story of mathematical genius, triumph, tials and tribulations (whatever a tribulation might be).

Mathematical Models by H. M. Cundy, A. P. Rollett
A 55 year old textbook that has stood the test of time amazingly well. If you've ever wanted to make a paper model of a stellated icosadodecahedron, this book will tell you how, and if you haven't ever wanted to, then you soon will. The mix of slightly dry writing from english mathematics professors, high math and solid tips on the best way to manufacture glass nibs for a twin-elliptic harmonograph really captured my imagination as a child, and I was soon adapting my lego railway set to draw Lissajous's figures. Even now, some of the math is beyond me, but the fact that the book explains everything in terms of physical models and their manufacture makes the hard parts seem very much within reach. The final section on computing is perhaps only of historical interest, unless you fancy making an and gate the hard way, but it (like the rest of the book) undoubtedly has charm, an adjective that can rarely be applied to math textbooks!

The Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford
A celebration of post-war British engineering. Spufford takes 6 examples of British Boffinhood and narrates the events in a style that I found unputdownable. While you probably know how some of the events covered will turn out (Concorde doesn't get cancelled in the 1970s, and the two 1980s geeks do manage to finish writing "Elite" for the BBC micro) others, like the take of the British independent space programme might be more of a surprise.

Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
More history of geekdom, this time a history of Fremat's Last Theorem. The math is presented in a form your mom would be able to follow, so this is one to read fro fun rather than enlightenment, but Singh really tells a tale well, and Andrew Wiles becomes the unlikely hero in a true story of mathematical genius, triumph, tials and tribulations (whatever a tribulation might be).

• The Black Book of Graphics Programming by Michael Abrash - THE book about optimization.
  
• On Intelligence - the ONLY book that explains how your brain works. No wishy-washy vitalist theories here!
  
• The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill - every real nerd's hobby shelf should have one.
  
• Nanosystems by Drexler - to dream.
  
• A treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Maxwell - an applied mathematician's brain at work. Most mathematicians don't care about the real world and just throw equations at you. In this book you'll find out how to actually make use of higher mathematics.
  
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - has every real-world measurement you can possibly imagine.
  
• Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham - this is considerably more fun to read than you think. Ever wanted to see a picture of a complex derivative?
  
• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List - to show you're cool.
  

• The Black Book of Graphics Programming by Michael Abrash - THE book about optimization.
  
• On Intelligence - the ONLY book that explains how your brain works. No wishy-washy vitalist theories here!
  
• The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill - every real nerd's hobby shelf should have one.
  
• Nanosystems by Drexler - to dream.
  
• A treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Maxwell - an applied mathematician's brain at work. Most mathematicians don't care about the real world and just throw equations at you. In this book you'll find out how to actually make use of higher mathematics.
  
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - has every real-world measurement you can possibly imagine.
  
• Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham - this is considerably more fun to read than you think. Ever wanted to see a picture of a complex derivative?
  
• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List - to show you're cool.
  

• The Black Book of Graphics Programming by Michael Abrash - THE book about optimization.
  
• On Intelligence - the ONLY book that explains how your brain works. No wishy-washy vitalist theories here!
  
• The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill - every real nerd's hobby shelf should have one.
  
• Nanosystems by Drexler - to dream.
  
• A treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Maxwell - an applied mathematician's brain at work. Most mathematicians don't care about the real world and just throw equations at you. In this book you'll find out how to actually make use of higher mathematics.
  
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - has every real-world measurement you can possibly imagine.
  
• Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham - this is considerably more fun to read than you think. Ever wanted to see a picture of a complex derivative?
  
• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List - to show you're cool.
  

• The Black Book of Graphics Programming by Michael Abrash - THE book about optimization.
  
• On Intelligence - the ONLY book that explains how your brain works. No wishy-washy vitalist theories here!
  
• The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill - every real nerd's hobby shelf should have one.
  
• Nanosystems by Drexler - to dream.
  
• A treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Maxwell - an applied mathematician's brain at work. Most mathematicians don't care about the real world and just throw equations at you. In this book you'll find out how to actually make use of higher mathematics.
  
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - has every real-world measurement you can possibly imagine.
  
• Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham - this is considerably more fun to read than you think. Ever wanted to see a picture of a complex derivative?
  
• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List - to show you're cool.
  

• The Black Book of Graphics Programming by Michael Abrash - THE book about optimization.
  
• On Intelligence - the ONLY book that explains how your brain works. No wishy-washy vitalist theories here!
  
• The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill - every real nerd's hobby shelf should have one.
  
• Nanosystems by Drexler - to dream.
  
• A treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Maxwell - an applied mathematician's brain at work. Most mathematicians don't care about the real world and just throw equations at you. In this book you'll find out how to actually make use of higher mathematics.
  
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - has every real-world measurement you can possibly imagine.
  
• Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham - this is considerably more fun to read than you think. Ever wanted to see a picture of a complex derivative?
  
• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List - to show you're cool.
  

• The Black Book of Graphics Programming by Michael Abrash - THE book about optimization.
  
• On Intelligence - the ONLY book that explains how your brain works. No wishy-washy vitalist theories here!
  
• The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill - every real nerd's hobby shelf should have one.
  
• Nanosystems by Drexler - to dream.
  
• A treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Maxwell - an applied mathematician's brain at work. Most mathematicians don't care about the real world and just throw equations at you. In this book you'll find out how to actually make use of higher mathematics.
  
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - has every real-world measurement you can possibly imagine.
  
• Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham - this is considerably more fun to read than you think. Ever wanted to see a picture of a complex derivative?
  
• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List - to show you're cool.
  

• The Black Book of Graphics Programming by Michael Abrash - THE book about optimization.
  
• On Intelligence - the ONLY book that explains how your brain works. No wishy-washy vitalist theories here!
  
• The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill - every real nerd's hobby shelf should have one.
  
• Nanosystems by Drexler - to dream.
  
• A treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Maxwell - an applied mathematician's brain at work. Most mathematicians don't care about the real world and just throw equations at you. In this book you'll find out how to actually make use of higher mathematics.
  
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - has every real-world measurement you can possibly imagine.
  
• Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham - this is considerably more fun to read than you think. Ever wanted to see a picture of a complex derivative?
  
• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List - to show you're cool.
  

• The Black Book of Graphics Programming by Michael Abrash - THE book about optimization.
  
• On Intelligence - the ONLY book that explains how your brain works. No wishy-washy vitalist theories here!
  
• The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill - every real nerd's hobby shelf should have one.
  
• Nanosystems by Drexler - to dream.
  
• A treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Maxwell - an applied mathematician's brain at work. Most mathematicians don't care about the real world and just throw equations at you. In this book you'll find out how to actually make use of higher mathematics.
  
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - has every real-world measurement you can possibly imagine.
  
• Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham - this is considerably more fun to read than you think. Ever wanted to see a picture of a complex derivative?
  
• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List - to show you're cool.
  

if you enjoy reading about user interface design than (Tufte) probably should be included in your list.

cheers,

mat

The UNIX Programming Environment, by Kernighan and Pike. This is the book that really taught me to appreciate Unix. It's also got a nice introduction to ANSI C. Definitely a more beginner level book, I must admit, but I'd say it's the single tech book I've got the most mileage out of.

Ambient Findability by Peter Morville.

1. Understand the problem.
2. Plan
3. Execute the plan
4. Look back (check your work)

Pocket Ref has been lauded as a "shirtpocket database of tech info" It has an amazing number of diverse charts and tables for unit conversion, materials properties, standards used by different countries, etc. Combine that with a book of engineering formulas (like this one) and you're set.

Pocket Ref has been lauded as a "shirtpocket database of tech info" It has an amazing number of diverse charts and tables for unit conversion, materials properties, standards used by different countries, etc. Combine that with a book of engineering formulas (like this one) and you're set.

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

if you're a tech entrepreneur, you might find these interesting:

guy kawasaki's ten favorite books

definitely second guy's suggestions of influence, crossing the chasm and innovator's dilemma; i'd also include the tipping point and blink (both by malcolm gladwell, quick reads -- kinda fluffy but interesting), seth godin's all marketers are liars, high tech startup by john nesheim, emotional intelligence by daniel goleman, and windows internals by mark russinovich, and for web design don't make me think is pretty good... what else -- i like joel spolsky's stuff, particularly user interface design for programmers, joel on software, and best software writing I is interesting too. paul graham's hackers and painters is also an interesting read if you haven't read his essays online.

n.b. i was logged into amazon at the time of copying those links, and judging by the length of the urls, there's probably some referrer shenanigans in there. if that bothers you, feel free to (un)mangle the link (i don't really care about making 17 cents or whatever if someone clicks one of the links).

-fren

The quarterly Make magazine fits nicely with the other hobbyist books.

Amazon has subscriptions and back issues.

can't go too far without mentioning the canonical algorithms textbook --

Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest

i read a ton of business books too -- maybe i'll post some of my favorites in a little bit.

-fren

I believe I'll listen to Ken Deffeyes

http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/

http://www.amazon.com/Basin-Range-John-McPhee/dp/0 374516901/sr=1-8/qid=1163627933/ref=sr_1_8/002-082 4961-8280833?ie=UTF8&s=books

Barnes and Noble is selling this book for $29.95, but Amazon.com is only selling it for $19.77!
 
Save yourself $10.18 by buying the book here: The Rise and Fall of Commodore. That's a total savings of 33.99%!

It is 10 bucks cheaper at Amazon. (That's an associate link - if that bothers you - just go search it at amazon- 'on the edge' returned it as the top hit for me.)