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This book can be found here on isbn.nu.

I'm all for making this "required reading" for those self-proclaimed "webmasters" and "web developers", who use tables for layout, specify font sizes, override user defaults, remove titlebars, try to disable right-click, and a whole host of other things that define the ineptitude of these individuals, and their lack of skill in proper design.

Come join some of us on #html on Efnet and you'll see the defining class of pedants like myself, and the others who insist that they aren't breaking usability by full-screening a browser window, removing all of the titlebars and then disabling right-click, and setting it to onBlur() by default.

Donald Moffitt has an execlent novel called Second Genesis in which interstellar starships are created from genetically engineered trees grown in orbit.

I recall an account of how some "primitive" (African tribal) people, when imprisoned, committed suicide or died of no apparent reason. The account I read was in Marie-Louise von Franz but may well have come from Laurens van der Post (1 2). Supposedly they thought that they had lost their soul and so had nothing more to live for.

I guess chimps are perhaps fortunate or at least different in that they don't experience a "loss of soul". I wonder whether any of them have died in captivity for no apparent medical reason: if they had, it might show a frightening similarity between chimps and humans, i.e. that chimps' "consciosness" is closer to humans than we think. Of course, I am NOT condoning this kind of cruelty!!

Yeah its a special order item from Amazon too, though they do stock the original book and the sequals The Root of All Evil and Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell.

In fact I used ISBN.nu to do Internet-wide search of online book stores, and they only list the Amazon special order as far as availability. Even Amazon Canada (User Friendly being a Canadian strip) doesn't have it in their database.

A connected campus is a great idea. A paperless one is both misguided and unrealistic. Not only is there a HUGE legacy of paper materials that wouldn't be cost-effective to digitize, but paper also provides numerous affordances that digital media (at least for now) do not. Looks like someone over there needs to read The Myth of the Paperless Office. Oh, wait. I forgot, they won't have any books. At least there's a lot of online material about the challenges of digital preservation that they might want to peruse.

In addition to Kernigan & Ritchie's 2nd edition, The C Programming Lanugage with ANSI C, which should be on any programmer's workbench, be they Perl, Matlab, Maple, TCL, or even elisp programmers, here are some others:

The Algorithm Design Manual by Steve Skiena. Excellent.

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From My Golf-Playing Cats. Here's hoping for the +1 Funny moderation for Ruben Bolling, whom I believe to be perhaps the finest editorial cartoonist, up there with Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Tom Toles, and Gary Treadeau. Fantastic!

In addition to Kernigan & Ritchie's 2nd edition, The C Programming Lanugage with ANSI C, which should be on any programmer's workbench, be they Perl, Matlab, Maple, TCL, or even elisp programmers, here are some others:

The Algorithm Design Manual by Steve Skiena. Excellent.

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From My Golf-Playing Cats. Here's hoping for the +1 Funny moderation for Ruben Bolling, whom I believe to be perhaps the finest editorial cartoonist, up there with Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Tom Toles, and Gary Treadeau. Fantastic!

In addition to Kernigan & Ritchie's 2nd edition, The C Programming Lanugage with ANSI C, which should be on any programmer's workbench, be they Perl, Matlab, Maple, TCL, or even elisp programmers, here are some others:

The Algorithm Design Manual by Steve Skiena. Excellent.

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From My Golf-Playing Cats. Here's hoping for the +1 Funny moderation for Ruben Bolling, whom I believe to be perhaps the finest editorial cartoonist, up there with Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Tom Toles, and Gary Treadeau. Fantastic!

In addition to Kernigan & Ritchie's 2nd edition, The C Programming Lanugage with ANSI C, which should be on any programmer's workbench, be they Perl, Matlab, Maple, TCL, or even elisp programmers, here are some others:

The Algorithm Design Manual by Steve Skiena. Excellent.

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From My Golf-Playing Cats. Here's hoping for the +1 Funny moderation for Ruben Bolling, whom I believe to be perhaps the finest editorial cartoonist, up there with Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Tom Toles, and Gary Treadeau. Fantastic!

In addition to Kernigan & Ritchie's 2nd edition, The C Programming Lanugage with ANSI C, which should be on any programmer's workbench, be they Perl, Matlab, Maple, TCL, or even elisp programmers, here are some others:

The Algorithm Design Manual by Steve Skiena. Excellent.

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From My Golf-Playing Cats. Here's hoping for the +1 Funny moderation for Ruben Bolling, whom I believe to be perhaps the finest editorial cartoonist, up there with Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Tom Toles, and Gary Treadeau. Fantastic!

In addition to Kernigan & Ritchie's 2nd edition, The C Programming Lanugage with ANSI C, which should be on any programmer's workbench, be they Perl, Matlab, Maple, TCL, or even elisp programmers, here are some others:

The Algorithm Design Manual by Steve Skiena. Excellent.

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From My Golf-Playing Cats. Here's hoping for the +1 Funny moderation for Ruben Bolling, whom I believe to be perhaps the finest editorial cartoonist, up there with Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Tom Toles, and Gary Treadeau. Fantastic!

In addition to Kernigan & Ritchie's 2nd edition, The C Programming Lanugage with ANSI C, which should be on any programmer's workbench, be they Perl, Matlab, Maple, TCL, or even elisp programmers, here are some others:

The Algorithm Design Manual by Steve Skiena. Excellent.

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From My Golf-Playing Cats. Here's hoping for the +1 Funny moderation for Ruben Bolling, whom I believe to be perhaps the finest editorial cartoonist, up there with Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Tom Toles, and Gary Treadeau. Fantastic!

"I think the reason they worked so well is that they were basically very highly evolved versions of the Ranger probes to the Moon ... There's some interesting stuff on these probes in a book called 'Beyond Selene'"

Jeffrey Kluger's Journey Beyond Selene is a great book (thanks for lending it to me Daniel, I still need to get it back to you :). Here's its best info on the Pioneer spacecraft, pp. 174-5:

In March 1972 and April 1973 -- years before the Voyagers were even scheduled to leave the ground -- the aptly named Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 blasted off the pad in Cape Canaveral and into space toward their own planned rendezvous with Jupiter and Saturn. The ships were not designed and built by one of the grand NASA facilities in Houston or Florida or Pasadena, but rather, by the comparatively obscure Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Ames, like JPL, was an old facility, having been in operation for years before joining the NASA family in 1958. Unlike JPL, however, Ames did not begin its life as an academic institution, but rather as a military one, serving as a research base and a training ground where new airplanes were developed and tested.

With its more modest scientific credentials, Ames was never considered one of NASA's frontline labs and was rarely given the glamorous mission-planning and spacecraft-building jobs JPL was. ... It thus came as something of a surprise in the early 1970s when Ames announced that it was planning to strike out on its own, building a pair of brand-new spacecraft and flying them to the same two planets that were the Voyager mission's prime targets.

The ambition -- to say nothing of the presumptuousness -- of the project took the space community by surprise. For all its derring-do, however, the Pioneer project was a relatively simple one, mostly because the spacecraft themselves were simple, too. The ships Ames were building were spindly little things, weighing barely 570 pounds apiece. Lightweight ships could carry only lightweight hardware, and the Pioneers would not be carrying much at all -- a camera, a few Geiger counter-like sensors, a radio, and a computer. A putt-putt spacecraft like this could be built on the cheap, and when the Ames researchers presented their plan to NASA and Congress, the administrators and lawmakers quickly approved it. If the Pioneers failed, there'd be little in the way of resources lost; if by chance they succeeded, much would be gained scientifically. Meanwhile, JPL could continue working on its own, more ambitious project scheduled for later in the decade.

... Ames, abiding by the compulsory esprit de corps NASA expected of its labs, shared all of its Jupiter findings with the scientists at JPL, who thanked their fellow engineers for their data, and then promptly put the information to use, adjusting their asteroid-belt flight path to follow Pioneer's own, and reinforcing their spacecraft with radiation shielding that would prevent the ships from growing sick the way Ames's had.

TableCurve -- this is a special case of number-crunching software, used to perform typical statistical analyses, and the integrated graphics are very good for most practical applications of statistics.

Books:

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

TableCurve -- this is a special case of number-crunching software, used to perform typical statistical analyses, and the integrated graphics are very good for most practical applications of statistics.

Books:

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

TableCurve -- this is a special case of number-crunching software, used to perform typical statistical analyses, and the integrated graphics are very good for most practical applications of statistics.

Books:

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

TableCurve -- this is a special case of number-crunching software, used to perform typical statistical analyses, and the integrated graphics are very good for most practical applications of statistics.

Books:

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

TableCurve -- this is a special case of number-crunching software, used to perform typical statistical analyses, and the integrated graphics are very good for most practical applications of statistics.

Books:

The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs -- the heart of correct math is showing your work, and this book shows you how.

The Data Game -- Controverses in Social Science Statistics -- this really puts you in touch with the kinds of numbers you hear bandied about on the news, and what those numbers mean.

The Maple V Learning Guide -- this comes with Maple (and presumably Matlab if you get it with Maple) and teaches more than a typical undergraduate mathematics program in about 270 pages. Actually, you have to delve into the hypertext documentation of Maple to get at all the calculus, linear algebra, statistics, etc., but it's all in there.

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability -- actually there were two volumes published in 1980, and one or both might have gone out of print.

What If there were No Significance Tests -- this overpriced volume (which you should be able to get for much less from the publisher's site, www.erlbaum.com that doesn't seem to be working right now) explains exactly what soft scientists (e.g., psychologists) mean when they say something is true.

100 Statistical Tests -- this reasonably priced but somewhat advanced, applied book will tell you how to tell whether something is true, even if you have to use indirect or partially correlated measurements. The author has provided tools with what you can quickly find the appropriate test(s) for most situations I can imagine.

How long before this is hijacked by publishers to promote novels in a fake "grass roots" caompaign? Maybe they'd just release a teaser version missing the last 10 pages or something.

That's already been done. Check out (read, d**n you, read!!) If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. Check out excerpts here, here; find the book at isbn.nu (at least two other editions in print, check your favorite bookseller).

in my opinion two of Larry Niven's best books were Lucifer's Hammer, (which is so much better than Armageddon or Deep Impact) and Ringworld (which was the first Larry Niven that I ever read, and I was hooked!) but I can't really imagine Holywood making a movie of that. Actually, I could imagine it, but I can't imagine that they could do it justice.

in my opinion two of Larry Niven's best books were Lucifer's Hammer, (which is so much better than Armageddon or Deep Impact) and Ringworld (which was the first Larry Niven that I ever read, and I was hooked!) but I can't really imagine Holywood making a movie of that. Actually, I could imagine it, but I can't imagine that they could do it justice.

The brief summary:

The Trigger When Dr. Karl Brohier and his team of scientists accidentally stumble upon a field that can detonate gunpowder in bullets and bombs from a safe distance, they find themselves targetted by professional criminals, terrorists, and the military-industrial complex, all out to seize control of their invention. Reprint.

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
A final installment in the series that began with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is taken from the late author's previously unpublished personal files and features the same offbeat adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and their companions.

Hasn't anyone heard of isbn.nu? I use the site almost daily, it's also got links to buy the books on retailer's sites. That, of course, is their source of income (referral fees).

The nice folks at isbn.nu have a database you must check out. Try http://www.isbn.nu/0201563177 for example.

The nice folks at isbn.nu have a database you must check out. Try http://www.isbn.nu/0201563177 for example.

One useful thing about it in its current form, by the way, is that it will do a realtime search of various book sites (those evil patent-wielders at Amazon, BN.com, etc.), and display a table letting you comparison by price or reported delivery time. So that's pretty cool.

John
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isbn.nu is something of a step in the right sirection...it doesn't sell books directly, so it's pretty much a disinterested party (even imdb isn't really that anymore, since it's an Amazon site). but It would be nice to have something more comprehensive, that covered also books not in print that were important, that would have comprehensive (as best as possible) listings of every edition (in English only) of, say, The Aeneid.

maybe there isn't a widespread interest in this, and that's why it never developed. alt.rec.movies (or whichever usenet group) imdb grew out of obviously filled a need for lotsa people...why didn't this happen with books? maybe it's too late to start now.

still, I'd be interested. as it stands now, people discuss movies, actors, etc in their blogs and link w/out thinking to imdb pages. for books, they end up linking to amazon (or B&N or, even more rearely, booksense). none of those sites give quite the same depth of info on a book as imdb does on a movie.

Featuring ... D[ild]o Daggins

Looking for "Dildo Bugger" in an LotR spoof? Look no further than Bored of the Rings .

I admit I have only read the top level responses (don't have time for more; need to invest in a speed reading class), but every response I have seen utterly ignores the known truths of Basic Economics. (The paperback edition is to be released 2002 Mar 01.) For instance, talk about the "gap" between haves and have-nots in the U.S. is misleading if you ignore the demographics of the data. The fact is that most of the bottom 20% of income earners are under the age of 30. This should encourage the young, because it shows that your economic prospects get better as you get older. It also means you have to be smart.

I admit I have only read the top level responses (don't have time for more; need to invest in a speed reading class), but every response I have seen utterly ignores the known truths of Basic Economics. (The paperback edition is to be released 2002 Mar 01.) For instance, talk about the "gap" between haves and have-nots in the U.S. is misleading if you ignore the demographics of the data. The fact is that most of the bottom 20% of income earners are under the age of 30. This should encourage the young, because it shows that your economic prospects get better as you get older. It also means you have to be smart.

Probably the most influential sf work on gender, just because it came before most everything else and was so uncompromising, was Theodore Sturgeon's VenusPlusX. The sad thing is that its peeks into the "real world," the comic and disturbing gender roles of the 1950s, are not dated, fifty years later.

... is that the human condition hasn't changed. Even when the outward trappings of our circumstances change, we remain ultimately and finally corrupt and unable to change ourselves. Whittaker Chambers, an American Communist until 1937, understood this.

I haven't read the Smallpox book reviewed here. But if you're interested in the history of disease, I heartily recommend Rats, Lice and History. Not a boring text, it meanders all over the place with a very dry wit and makes a truly horrible subject enjoyable to read about.

Lisp may not be the most useful language in and of itself, but if you learn it, it will make you a better programmer.

Most people who first learn languages like C, C++ or Java throw around functional side effects like they were going out of style. Lisp makes you very aware of good, disciplined functional programming (it almost forces you to write neat, concise code!).

Also, I learned many powerful programming concepts such as lambdas and closures while teaching myself Common Lisp. I doubt I would understand the concepts as they are applied in Python and Perl nearly as well, if I didn't first learn Lisp.

So go and get a copy of The Little Lisper and have at it. It's good clean fun!

the very concept of ending regular postal service is akin to ending civilization itself.

This seems very similar to the fundamental premise of The Postman by David Brin.

No one runs *nix as root.

Unless you have root, you can't do much damage to a system.

It's impossible to get root on a *nix system without permission, because it is designed that way.

You don't need to be running as root for worms to propogate themselves. One of the first worms ran amok through *nix machines in the early 90's, and was written by Robert Morris Jr. (son of Robert Morris Sr. at the NSA).

If you haven't read the Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll, you should. Not much about worms, but the last chapter deals with the one I mentioned above.

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)

These would also do well in a library:

• Algorithm Design Manual
• Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Intelligent Instruction by Computer: Theory & Practice
• Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
• Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition
• Automatic Speech Recognition Programming & Implementation
• Speech & Audio Signal Processing: Processing & Perception of Speech & Music
• C Programming Language: ANSI C Version
• Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
• Perl by Example
• Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 40 Rules for C++ & C Programming
• AWK Programming Language
• SQL Instant Reference
• A User Guide to the Unix System (out of print!?!) by R. Thomas and J. Yates (Osborne/McGraw Hill, Berkeley: 1982)
• UNIX System Administration Handbook
• Maple V Learning Guide (excelent math software tutorial)
• TableCurve User's Manual (excelent science software reference)
• something on Tcl which doesn't include Tk, which sadly doesn't seem to have been written yet.
• On What We Know We Don't Know

I tend to judge which books should be in the library by which have been stolen from me the most. By that criterion, C Programming Language is running neck-and-neck with SQL Instant Reference, but my most coveted at the moment is Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

-- James Salsman
(please mod me to +1 since I'm actually nonanonymous here -- thank you!)