NF reviews : rating index

unmissable 1

  • Milton Abramowitz, Irene A. Stegun. • Handbook of Mathematical Functions
  • H. W. Fowler, Sir Ernest Gowers. • A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
  • Sir Ernest Gowers, Sir Bruce Fraser. • The Complete Plain Words
  • Douglas R. Hofstadter. • Godel, Escher, Bach
  • Stuart A. Kauffman. • Investigations
  • Edward R. Tufte. • Envisioning InformationThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information

    unmissable 1.5

  • Daniel C. Dennett. • Consciousness ExplainedDarwin's Dangerous Idea
  • Stephen Jay Gould. • Wonderful Life
  • I. S. Gradshteyn, I. M. Ryzhik. • Table of Integrals, Series and Products
  • Brian Greene. • The Elegant Universe
  • Douglas R. Hofstadter. • Le Ton beau de Marot
  • Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett. • The Mind's I
  • George Lakoff. • Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
  • Benoit B. Mandelbrot. • The Fractal Geometry of Nature
  • Marvin L. Minsky. • The Society of Mind
  • Hans Moravec. • Mind Children
  • Donald A. Norman. • The Psychology of Everyday Things
  • Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jurgens, Dietmar Saupe. • Fractals for the Classroom Part 1Fractals for the Classroom Part 2
  • Edward R. Tufte. • Visual Explanations
  • Joseph M. Williams. • Style

    great stuff 2

  • Robert P. Abelson. • Statistics as Principled Argument
  • Christopher Alexander. • The Timeless Way of Building
  • Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel. • A Pattern Language
  • W. Brian Arthur. • The Nature of Technology
  • Philip Ball. • The Self-Made Tapestry
  • Michael F. Barnsley. • Fractals Everywhere
  • Michael Benson. • Beyond
  • K. G. Binmore. • Logic, Sets and NumbersTopological Ideas
  • Susan Blackmore. • The Meme Machine
  • David Brin. • The Transparent Society
  • Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • The Mythical Man-Month
  • Sean B. Carroll. • Endless Forms Most Beautiful
  • Gregory J. Chaitin. • The Limits of Mathematics
  • Irun R. Cohen. • Tending Adam's Garden
  • Richard E. Cytowic. • The Man Who Tasted Shapes
  • Richard Dawkins. • The God DelusionThe Selfish Gene
  • David Deutsch. • The Fabric of Reality
  • K. Eric Drexler. • Engines of Creation
  • Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph E. Johnson, John Vlissides. • Design Patterns
  • George Gamow. • Mr Tompkins in Paperback
  • Brian Greene. • The Fabric of the Cosmos
  • Franklin M. Harold. • The Way of the Cell
  • Douglas R. Hofstadter. • Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
  • Darrell Huff. • How to Lie with Statistics
  • Stuart A. Kauffman. • At Home in the Universe
  • Kevin Kelly. • Out of Control
  • J. A. Scott Kelso. • Dynamic Patterns
  • Tracy Kidder. • The Soul of a New Machine
  • George Lakoff, Rafael E. Nunez. • Where Mathematics Comes From
  • Manuel De Landa. • A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
  • Bertrand Meyer. • Object-oriented Software Construction
  • Tom Peters. • Liberation Management
  • Robert M. Pirsig. • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  • Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer. • The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
  • Rudy Rucker. • Mind Tools
  • Oliver Sacks. • An Anthropologist on MarsThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • Marcus du Sautoy. • The Music of the Primes
  • Lee Smolin. • The Life of the CosmosThree Roads to Quantum Gravity
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb. • The Black Swan
  • R. D. Tennent. • Principles of Programming LanguagesSemantics of Programming Languages
  • Lynne Truss. • Eats, Shoots & Leaves
  • Robert L. Weber. • A Random Walk in Science
  • Gerald M. Weinberg. • The Psychology of Computer Programming
  • David Weinberger. • Everything is Miscellaneous

    great stuff 2.5

  • Harold Abelson, Andrea diSessa. • Turtle Geometry
  • Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams. • The Oregon Experiment
  • Robert Axelrod. • The Evolution of Co-operation
  • Robert Axelrod, Michael D. Cohen. • Harnessing Complexity
  • Per Bak. • How Nature Works
  • Julian B. Barbour. • The End of Time
  • Kent Beck. • Extreme Programming ExplainedSmalltalk Best Practice Patterns
  • Ludwig von Bertalanffy. • General System Theory
  • K. G. Binmore. • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mary L. Boas. • Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
  • Steven J. Brams. • Superior Beings
  • Julian R. Brown. • The Quest for the Quantum Computer
  • Bill Buxton. • Sketching User Experiences
  • Andy Clark. • Being There
  • Alistair Cockburn. • Agile Software DevelopmentWriting Effective Use Cases
  • John Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy. • The Book of Numbers
  • Frederick C. Crews. • Postmodern PoohThe Pooh Perplex
  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. • Beyond Boredom and Anxiety
  • Richard Dawkins. • A Devil's ChaplainThe Blind Watchmaker
  • Daniel C. Dennett. • Brainstorms
  • David Deutsch. • The Beginning of Infinity
  • Guy Deutscher. • Through the Language Glass
  • Joshua M. Epstein, Robert Axtell. • Growing Artificial Societies
  • Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton. • 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!''What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?'
  • Robert L. Forward, Joel Davis. • Mirror Matter
  • Martin Fowler. • Analysis PatternsDomain-Specific LanguagesRefactoring
  • Martin Fowler, Kendall Scott. • UML Distilled
  • Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce. • Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
  • Percival Frost. • Curve Tracing
  • Atul Gawande. • ComplicationsThe Checklist Manifesto
  • Henry Gee. • Deep Time
  • Murray Gell-Mann. • The Quark and the Jaguar
  • James Gleick. • Chaos
  • Jonathan Glover. • Causing Death and Saving Lives
  • Stephen Jay Gould. • The Mismeasure of Man
  • Temple Grandin. • Thinking in Pictures
  • Alan H. Guth. • The Inflationary Universe
  • J. Storrs Hall. • Nanofuture
  • David Harel. • Algorithmics
  • Robert L. Harris. • Information Graphics
  • Douglas R. Hofstadter. • Metamagical Themas
  • Andrew Hunt, David Thomas. • The Pragmatic Programmer
  • Michael Jackson. • Software Requirements and Specifications
  • Steven Johnson. • EmergenceEverything Bad is Good for You
  • Richard A. L. Jones. • Soft Machines
  • Edward Kasner, James R. Newman. • Mathematics and the Imagination
  • Tracy Kidder. • House
  • George Lakoff, Mark Johnson. • Metaphors We Live By
  • Steven Levy. • Artificial Life
  • David Lindley. • Where Does the Weirdness Go?
  • John E. Littlewood, Bela Bollobas. • Littlewood's Miscellany
  • Seth Lloyd. • Programming the Universe
  • Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson. • The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets
  • John McWhorter. • The Power of Babel
  • Donella H. Meadows. • Thinking in Systems
  • Bertrand Meyer. • Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages
  • Marvin L. Minsky. • The Emotion Machine
  • Patrick Niemeyer, Joshua Peck. • Exploring Java
  • Denis Noble. • The Music of Life
  • Arika Okrent. • In the Land of Invented Languages
  • Paul Ormerod. • Butterfly Economics
  • Tom Peters. • Thriving on Chaos
  • Ivars Peterson. • Newton's ClockThe Mathematical Tourist
  • Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini. • Inevitable Illusions
  • Steven Pinker. • The Language InstinctThe Stuff of ThoughtWords and Rules
  • Karl R. Popper. • The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 1
  • William Poundstone. • The Recursive Universe
  • V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee. • Phantoms in the Brain
  • Eric S. Raymond. • The Cathedral and the BazaarThe New Hacker's Dictionary
  • Matt Ridley. • The Red Queen
  • Rudy Rucker. • Infinity and the Mind
  • Karl Sabbagh. • Dr. Riemann's Zeros
  • Oliver Sacks. • A Leg to Stand OnSeeing Voices
  • Carl Sagan. • The Demon-Haunted World
  • Eric D. Schneider, Dorian Sagan. • Into the Cool
  • Lee Smolin. • The Trouble with Physics
  • Ian Stewart. • Does God Play Dice?Life's Other Secret
  • Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen. • Figments of Reality
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb. • Fooled by Randomness
  • The Times. • Britain from Space
  • Linus Torvalds, David Diamond. • Just for Fun
  • Unicode-Consortium. • The Unicode Standard
  • Leonard M. Wapner. • The Pea and the Sun
  • David A. Watt. • Programming Language Processors
  • Robert L. Weber. • More Random Walks in Science
  • Colin P. Williams, Scott H. Clearwater. • Ultimate Zero and One
  • Donna Williams. • Nobody NowhereSomebody Somewhere

    worth reading 3

  • J. L. Austin. • How to do Things with Words
  • Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy. • The Liar
  • Laurie Bauer, Peter Trudgill, editors. • Language Myths
  • Kent Beck. • Test-Driven Development
  • Kent Beck, Martin Fowler. • Planning Extreme Programming
  • Sandra Blakeslee, Matthew Blakeslee. • The Body has a Mind of Its Own
  • Steven J. Brams. • Biblical Games
  • Damien Broderick. • The Spike
  • Mark Buchanan. • Small WorldUbiquity
  • A. G. Cairns-Smith. • Seven Clues to the Origin of Life
  • James P. Carse. • Finite and Infinite Games
  • Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart. • The Collapse of Chaos
  • James O. Coplien, Douglas C. Schmidt, editors. • Pattern Languages of Program Design
  • Paul C. W. Davies. • The Last Three Minutes
  • Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister. • Peopleware
  • Daniel C. Dennett. • Freedom EvolvesKinds of Minds
  • Roland Duncan, Miranda Weston-Smith, editors. • The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance
  • Peter Elbow. • Writing With Power
  • Daniel L. Everett. • Don't Sleep, There are Snakes
  • Richard P. Feynman, Anthony J. G. Hey, Robin W. Allen. • Feynman Lectures on Computation
  • Gary William Flake. • The Computational Beauty of Nature
  • Atul Gawande. • Better
  • David Gelernter. • The Aesthetics of Computing
  • Neil A. Gershenfeld. • When Things Start to Think
  • Malcolm Gladwell. • BlinkOutliersThe Tipping Point
  • James Gleick. • Faster
  • Neal Goldstein, Jeff Alger. • Developing Object-Oriented Software for the Macintosh
  • Brian C. Goodwin. • How the Leopard Changed Its Spots
  • Stephen Jay Gould. • Ever Since Darwin
  • Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson. • Animals in Translation
  • Stephen W. Hawking. • A Brief History of Time
  • Dee Hock. • Birth of the Chaordic Age
  • Douglas R. Hofstadter. • I am a Strange Loop
  • Michael R. A. Huth, Mark D. Ryan. • Logic in Computer Science
  • Harold Jeffreys, Bertha Jeffreys. • Methods of Mathematical Physics
  • Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson. • Extreme Programming Installed
  • Jeff Johnson. • GUI Bloopers
  • Neil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, Peter Sestoft. • Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation
  • Evelyn Fox Keller. • Making Sense of Life
  • Joshua Kerievsky. • Refactoring to Patterns
  • Gordon Laing. • Digital Retro
  • Robert B. Laughlin. • A Different Universe
  • Ralph Leighton. • Tuva or Bust!
  • Douglas B. Lenat, R. V. Guha. • Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems
  • C. S. Lewis. • Studies in Words
  • N. David Mermin, editor. • Boojums All the Way Through
  • Bertrand Meyer. • Eiffel: the Language
  • Mary Midgley. • Utopias, Dolphins and Computers
  • Hans Moravec. • Robot
  • NationalGeographic. • Satellite Atlas of the World
  • Donald A. Norman. • Turn Signs are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles
  • Onora O'Neill. • A Question of Trust
  • Paul Ormerod. • Why Most Things Fail
  • Tom Peters. • The Pursuit of Wow!
  • Tom Peters, Nancy Austin. • A Passion for Excellence
  • Tom Peters, Robert H. Waterman Jr. • In Search of Excellence
  • Karl R. Popper. • The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 2
  • Geoffrey K. Pullum. • The Greak Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax
  • Edward Regis. • Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman ConditionNano!
  • Matt Ridley. • Genome
  • Oliver Sacks. • Musicophilia
  • Susan Schaller. • A Man without Words
  • Ricardo Semler. • Maverick!
  • Simon Singh. • Fermat's Last Theorem
  • Suzanne Skublics, Edward J. Klimas, David A. Thomas. • Smalltalk with Style
  • N. J. A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe. • The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
  • Neil V. Smith. • The Twitter Machine
  • Raymond M. Smullyan. • What Is the Name of This Book?
  • Ricard V. Sole, Brian C. Goodwin. • Signs of Life
  • Ian Sommerville, Pete Sawyer. • Requirements Engineering
  • Joel Spolsky. • Joel on Software
  • Ian Stewart, Martin Golubitsky. • Fearful Symmetry
  • Clifford Stoll. • The Cuckoo's Egg
  • Steven H. Strogatz. • Sync
  • Stephen Todd, William Latham. • Evolutionary Art and Computers
  • Edward R. Tufte. • Beautiful Evidence
  • Sherry Turkle. • Life on the Screen
  • David A. Watt. • Programming Language Concepts and Paradigms
  • Peter Wayner. • Disappearing Cryptography
  • Robert L. Weber. • Science with a Smile
  • Gerald M. Weinberg. • The Secrets of Consulting
  • E. T. Whittaker, G. N. Watson. • A Course of Modern Analysis
  • Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores. • Understanding Computers and Cognition
  • Arnold M. Zwicky, Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick, Anthony L. Vanek. • Studies Out in Left Field

    worth reading 3.5

  • Amir D. Aczel. • Entanglement
  • Christoph Adami. • Introduction to Artificial Life
  • Wallace Arthur. • Biased Embryos and Evolution
  • Ken Auer, Roy Miller. • Extreme Programming Applied
  • Andre Bacard. • The Computer Privacy Handbook
  • Jon Barwise, Lawrence Moss. • Vicious Circles
  • Kent Beck. • Guide to Better Smalltalk
  • Peter J. Bentley. • Digital Biology
  • Michael Blastland, Andrew Dilnot. • The Tiger that Isn't
  • William Goldbloom Bloch. • The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
  • Margaret A. Boden, editor. • The Philosophy of Artificial Life
  • Valentino Braitenberg. • Vehicles
  • Rodney A. Brooks. • Cambrian IntelligenceRobot
  • Colin Bruce. • Conned Again, Watson!
  • Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin, editors. • Fractals in Science
  • Jeremy Butterfield. • Damp Squid
  • George L. Campbell. • Concise Compendium of the World's Languages
  • John L. Casti, Anders Karlqvist, editors. • Mission to Abisko
  • Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. • Genes, Peoples and Languages
  • Gregory J. Chaitin. • Meta Math!
  • John Cheesman, John Daniels. • UML Components
  • Andy Clark. • MindwareNatural-Born Cyborgs
  • Jack Cohen. • The Privileged Ape
  • Jack Cohen, Graham Medley. • Stop Working and Start Thinking
  • Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart. • Evolving the Alien
  • Leah Hager Cohen. • Train Go Sorry
  • Matthew B. Crawford. • The Case for Working with Your Hands
  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. • Finding Flow
  • H. Martyn Cundy, A. P. Rollett. • Mathematical Models
  • Antoine Danchin. • The Delphic Boat
  • Robyn M. Dawes. • Everyday Irrationality
  • Richard Dawkins. • River Out of EdenUnweaving the Rainbow
  • Tom DeMarco. • SlackThe Deadline
  • Daniel C. Dennett, editor. • BrainchildrenBreaking the SpellElbow RoomSweet DreamsThe Intentional Stance
  • Keith Devlin. • Logic and Information
  • Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou. • Logicomix
  • Lyn Dupre. • BUGS in Writing
  • George Dyson. • Darwin among the Machines
  • Gerald M. Edelman. • Bright Air, Brilliant Fire
  • A. W. F. Edwards. • Cogwheels of the Mind
  • Claus Emmeche. • The Garden in the Machine
  • Bruno Ernst. • The Eye Beguiled
  • Katrina S. Firlik. • Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
  • Vincent Flanders, Michael Willis. • Web Pages the Suck
  • Ira R. Forman, Scott H. Danforth. • Putting Metaclasses to Work
  • Richard P. Gabriel. • Patterns of Software
  • David Gelernter. • The Muse in the Machine
  • Neil A. Gershenfeld. • Fab
  • Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC_Research_Group. • Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
  • Malcolm Gladwell. • What the Dog Saw
  • Robert L. Glass. • Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
  • Larry Gonick, Mark Wheelis. • The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
  • Deborah M. Gordon. • Ants at Work
  • Stephen Jay Gould. • Questioning the Millennium
  • Jeremy J. Gray. • The Hilbert Challenge
  • Julian Havil. • Nonplussed!
  • Mark Haw. • Middle World
  • Ray Hemmings, Dick Tahta. • Images of Infinity
  • Paul Hoffman. • The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
  • John Henry Holland. • Hidden Order
  • Martin Hollis. • Trust Within Reason
  • Jim Holmes. • Object-Oriented Compiler Construction
  • Bill Jensen. • Work 2.0
  • Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen. • Self-Organized Criticality
  • Steven Johnson. • Where Good Ideas Come From
  • Michio Kaku. • Hyperspace
  • Stephen H. Kellert. • In the Wake of Chaos
  • Kevin Kelly. • New Rules for the New Economy
  • James Kennedy, Russell C. Eberhart. • Swarm Intelligence
  • Nancy Kline. • Time to Think
  • Donald E. Knuth. • Surreal Numbers
  • Leonard Koren. • Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers
  • Bart Kosko. • Fuzzy Thinking
  • Philippe Kruchten. • The Rational Unified Process
  • Steve Krug. • Don't Make Me Think
  • George Lakoff, Mark Turner. • More than Cool Reason
  • Steven E. Landsburg. • More Sex is Safer Sex
  • Shaughan Lavine. • Understanding the Infinite
  • Janna Levin. • How the Universe Got Its Spots
  • A. R. Luria. • The Mind of a Mnemonist
  • Stewart Mader. • Wikipatterns
  • Pete McBreen. • Questioning Extreme ProgrammingSoftware Craftsmanship
  • Jim McCarthy, Michele McCarthy. • Software for Your Head
  • Wil McCarthy. • Hacking Matter
  • Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil. • The Story of English
  • Gary McGraw, Edward W. Felten. • Java Security
  • Peter J. R. Millican, Andy Clark, editors. • Machines and Thought
  • Melanie Mitchell. • Analogy-Making as Perception
  • Leonard Mlodinow. • Some Time with Feynman
  • Richard Morris. • Artificial Worlds
  • David Mumford, Caroline Series, David Wright. • Indra's Pearls
  • Nicholas Negroponte. • Being Digital
  • Donald A. Norman. • Emotional DesignThe Invisible ComputerThings That Make Us Smart
  • Michael O'Neill, Conor Ryan. • Grammatical Evolution
  • Susan Oyama. • The Ontogeny of Information
  • John Allen Paulos. • Once Upon a Number
  • Daniel Pennac. • The Rights of the Reader
  • David Perkins. • The Eureka Effect
  • Tom Peters. • The Circle of Innovation
  • Ivars Peterson. • Islands of Truth
  • Rosalind W. Picard. • Affective Computing
  • Clifford A. Pickover. • Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty
  • Richard A. Posner. • The Little Book of Plagiarism
  • William Poundstone. • Labyrinths of Reason
  • Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen. • Darwin's WatchThe GlobeThe Science of Discworld
  • Martin J. Rees. • Just Six Numbers
  • Byron Reeves, Clifford Nass. • The Media Equation
  • Edward Regis. • What Is Life?
  • K. F. Riley. • Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences
  • Amanda Ripley. • The Unthinkable
  • Mark Ronan. • Symmetry and the Monster
  • Rudy Rucker. • The Fourth Dimension
  • Julie Rugg, Lynda Murphy. • A Book Addict's Treasury
  • Donald G. Saari. • Decisions and Elections
  • Oliver Sacks. • The Island of the Colour-blindThe Mind's Eye
  • Matthias Scheutz, editor. • Computationalism
  • Al Seckel. • Masters of Deception
  • Yen-Ping Shan, Ralph H. Earle. • Enterprise Computing with Objects
  • Neil Shubin. • Your Inner Fish
  • Tom Siegfried. • The Bit and the Pendulum
  • Neil V. Smith, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli. • The Mind of a Savant
  • Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores. • Building Trust
  • Joel Spolsky. • More Joel on SoftwareSmart and Gets Things Done
  • G. Stephenson. • Mathematical Methods for Science Students
  • Ian Stewart. • Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into...
  • Leonard Susskind, James Lindesay. • An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution
  • John Vlissides. • Pattern Hatching
  • Gerald M. Weinberg. • An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
  • Garnett P. Williams. • Chaos Theory Tamed
  • Terry Winograd, editor. • Bringing Design to Software
  • Maryanne Wolf. • Proust and the Squid
  • Ricardo Salem Zebulum, Marco Aurelio C. Pacheco, Marley Maria B. R. Vellasco. • Evolutionary Electronics

    passes the time 4

  • Eric Abrahamson, David H. Freedman. • A Perfect Mess
  • John Bear. • Send This Jerk the Bedbug Letter
  • Kevin Beresford. • Roundabouts of Great Britain
  • Mark Breier, Armin A. Brott. • The Ten Second Internet Manager
  • William J. Brown, Hays W. "Skip" McCormick III, Scott W. Thomas. • AntiPatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management
  • Bill Bryson. • Mother Tongue
  • Peter Cochrane. • Tips for Time Travellers
  • Christopher Day. • Places of the Soul
  • Keith Devlin. • All the Math That's Fit to Print
  • Dietrich Dorner. • The Logic of Failure
  • Paul Evitts. • A UML Pattern Language
  • Richard P. Feynman. • The Meaning of it All
  • Martin Gardner. • Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?
  • Betty Lehan Harragan. • Games Mother Never Taught You
  • Robert L. Jolles. • The Way of the Road Warrior
  • John Kay. • Obliquity
  • Scott Kim. • Inversions
  • Jeffrey Kluger. • Simplexity
  • Roger Lewin, Birute Regine. • Weaving Complexity and Business
  • Alan Lewis. • Pundemoniam!
  • Robin Mitchell. • Adam Lyal's Witchery Tales
  • Will C. Mooney. • Chinese Names for Oriental Dogs
  • Harold J. Morowitz. • The Emergence of Everything
  • Mugumogu. • I am Maru
  • Haruki Murakami. • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
  • Wendy Northcutt. • The Darwin Awrds
  • Pentagram. • Puzzlegrams
  • Gavin Pretor-Pinney. • A Pig with Six Legs
  • Michael Quinion. • Port Out, Starboard Home
  • Garr Reynolds. • Presentation Zen Design
  • Rudy Rucker. • Artificial Life Lab
  • Keith Selkirk, William Wynne Willson. • Fifty per cent Proof
  • Richard Sennett. • The Craftsman
  • Ian Stewart. • Nature's Numbers
  • Michael Swift, George Grant. • Britain from the Air
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb. • The Bed of Procrustes
  • Linda Arms White. • Log Spirit

    passes the time 4.5

  • Scott W. Ambler. • Agile Modeling
  • William J. Brown, Raphael C. Malveau, Hays W. "Skip" McCormick III, Thomas J. Mowbray. • AntiPatterns
  • Cretien van Campen. • The Hidden Sense
  • Umberto Eco. • Serendipities
  • Tino Gramss, Stefan Bornholdt, Michael Gross, Melanie Mitchell, Thomas Pellizzari, editors. • Non-Standard Computation
  • Stefan Helmreich. • Silicon Second Nature
  • Maria Leach. • The Ultimate Insult
  • William J. Majeski, Ralph Butler. • The Lie Detection Book
  • Mark Monmonier. • How to Lie with Maps
  • Donald E. Simanek, John C. Holden. • Science Askew
  • David Weeks, Jamie James. • Eccentrics

    waste of time 5

  • Java-SIG-Team. • Java-SIG's 100 Best Applets
  • Clifford A. Pickover. • Computers and the Imagination
  • Jonathan Pletzke. • Advanced Smalltalk
  • Ian Vince, Dan Kieran. • The Myway Code
  • Mark Ward. • Virtual Organisms

    waste of time 5.5

  • Miyamoto Musashi. • A Book of Five Rings

    unfinishable 6

  • Richard J. Bird. • Chaos and Life
  • Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest. • Google Hacks
  • Jostein Gaarder. • Sophie's World
  • Michael D. McMaster. • The Intelligence Advantage
  • David Shenk. • Data Smog