I’ve been working on the reading side of the 50 book challenge fairly steadily. I’ve been less than diligent about posting mini-reviews as I go along. For my own purposes I wanted to take stock of what I have posted, what I’ve finished reading, and where I stand with the overall objective. Here’s a list [...]
Another great post from Evelyn at Crossroads with a recommendation for another book that looks worth reading, Overachievement by John Eliot. I’ve got a copy on order based on her recommendation.
The Last Taboo. [Michael Dell at eighteen] decided not to divulge that dream to anyone “because they probably would have thought I was crazy. But, [...]
I’ve been doing the 50-book challenge this year. Although I’m way behind on writing up what I’ve been reading, I think I have enough in the queue to hit the goal by year’s end. A quick count says I’ve posted 27 short reviews, I have another 6 books finished that I need to write up, [...]
A review by David Gelernter of The Invisible Century which examines how Einstein and Freud went about thinking. Definitely something I intend to check out.
Einstein and Freud Go to a Bar, and Freud Says . . .. Richard Panek argues that Einstein and Freud revolutionized intellectual history by running thought experiments, not interpreting evidence. By [...]
I would happily contribute to bribing this fellow to do more reviews of any movies where Hollywood butchers anything to do with science or logical thought, which ought to cover most films.
The day After Tomorrow - Best Review. Here is the review written by a paleontologist who bet the world that he would not see [...]
The Footprints of God : A Novel
Iles, Greg
Rick Klau recommended this book to me at a blogger get together in Chicago back in March. Finally had a chance to read it last week during a little vacation time. Rick gets to recommend books to me anytime he wants from now on.
I hadn’t read any of [...]
Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Johnson, Steven
Not quite as provocative as Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, this is still well worth your time if you have any interest in how your mind works. Johnson uses himself as guinea pig to explore what science and [...]
Iron Sunrise
Stross, Charles
A loose sequel to Singularity Sky in that it continues the adventures of that book’s protagonists, Iron Sunrise is a much more coherent and compelling story. Stross is setting up a nice post-singularity universe where the potent technologies and capabilities of his heros are nicely offset by equally potent capabilities among the bad [...]
LDAP Directories Explained: An Introduction and Analysis
Arkills, Brian
I needed to get less ignorant about LDAP and this filled the bill nicely. It gave me enough background, well-enough organized and presented, that I can now keep up in conversations about the topic when I have to.
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
Meyer, Eric A.
Worthy of all the praise it has gotten around the web. Together with …. this is a must have book if you do any sort of web design at all. Even for someone like me who’s only a web designer at the fringe of my other [...]
