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 !Reading:
 * 'Getting Things Done', David Allen ''(It sounds silly, but I'm finding it to be really great productivity book)''
+* 'Crossing the Chasm', Greoffrey A. Moore
+* 'Cyborg', Steve Mann & Hal Niedzviecki
 
 !Read (as in, I have read):
 * Non-Fiction
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 ** '[The City After the Automobile]'
 * Fiction
 ** Greg Egan, Schild's Ladder - I didn't like it much. I barely understood what he was talking about. If you remove the "hard" scifi the plot is wrapped in, it's not too exciting.
-** All of Scott Card's Enders series
+** Greg Egan, Diaspora - Fantastic, though the twisting of personal pronouns and abstract thinking makes it a hard read as well
+** All of Orson Scott Card's Enders series, parts of the Homecoming series, and Alvin Maker series
 ** Douglas Coupland -- I just finished 'all families are psychotic' .. Douglas' work always makes me feel like I've stepped into someone elses life. It makes me feel a little sad when I finish a book, and the world vanishes.
 * Programming
 ** Interesting programming [interviews|http://www.artima.com/intv/]
+** [What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source|http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6486]
 
 !To Read:
+
+__HCI READING__
+Don't ask me what this book format is, I don't know.
+
+---
+The books by Spence and Tufte are perhaps the most visually attractive
+and contain lots of interesting examples. I think Spence's book
+has more on interactive visualizations, whereas Tufte's are more
+about static graphics.
+
+The one by Card et al. is visually very unattractive; it contains
+a bunch of grey-scale reproductions of academic papers.
+It is useful to academics, though, for the key papers it contains,
+and is often cited in my field.
+
+Ware's book is about human perception, and actually doesn't
+contain a lot of examples of visualizations.
+
+Wilkinson's describes a kind of object-oriented framework for
+describing many kinds of graphics. I guess it would be useful
+if you wanted to implement a very general and flexible
+visualization system, because it outlines one set of key constructs
+that can be combined in useful ways.
+
+Bertin's and Playfair's books are of historical interest
+because of how old they are. I don't know of any new
+English copies of Bertin's work (the French copy I have
+was bought in France recently); you might be able to get
+used copies at amazon or ebay. Playfair's work has been
+recently (2005) reprinted; you can get a copy on amazon
+and read my review of the reprint there -- just search
+for "William Playfair" at amazon.com.
+---
+
+@book{spence2001,
+ author={Robert Spence},
+ title={Information Visualization},
+ year=2001,
+ publisher={ACM Press}
+}
+
+@book{card1999,
+ editor={Stuart K. Card and Jock D. Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman},
+ title={Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think},
+ year=1999,
+ publisher={Morgan Kaufmann Publishers}
+}
+
+@book{ware2000,
+ author={Colin Ware},
+ title={Information Visualization: Perception for Design},
+ year=2000,
+ publisher={Morgan Kaufmann Publishers}
+}
+
+% reprinted in 1992; 2nd edition from 2001
+% Available at U of T engineering library HA 31 T83
+@book{tufte1983,
+ author={Edward R. Tufte},
+ title={The Visual Display of Quantitative Information},
+ year=1983,
+ publisher={Graphics Press}
+}
+
+@book{tufte1990,
+ author={Edward R. Tufte},
+ title={Envisioning Information},
+ year=1990,
+ publisher={Graphics Press}
+}
+
+@book{tufte1997,
+ author={Edward R. Tufte},
+ title={Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative},
+ year=1997,
+ publisher={Graphics Press}
+}
+
+% Available at U of T math library QA 276.3 W55
+@book{wilkinson1999,
+ author={Leland Wilkinson},
+ title={The Grammar of Graphics},
+ year=1999,
+ publisher={Springer},
+ address={New York}
+}
+
+% 2nd edition in 1973
+% Translated into English 1983
+% English translation available at U of T engineering library HA 31 B413
+@book{bertin1967,
+ author={Jacques Bertin},
+ title={S\'{e}miologie graphique:
+ Les diagrammes, Les r\'{e}seaux, Les cartes},
+ year=1967,
+ publisher={\'{E}ditions Gauthier-Villars},
+ address={Paris},
+ note={(2nd edition 1973, English translation 1983)}
+}
+
+@book{bertin1977,
+ author={Jacques Bertin},
+ title={La graphique et le traitement graphique de l'information},
+ year=1977,
+ publisher={Flammarion},
+ address={Paris}
+}
+
+@book{playfair1786,
+ author={William Playfair},
+ title={The Commercial and Political Atlas},
+ year=1786,
+ edition={1st},
+ address={London},
+ note = {(3rd edition reproduced in The Commercial and Political Atlas
+ and Statistical Breviary, by William Playfair,
+ edited and introduced by Howard Wainer and Ian Spence, 2005)}
+}
+
+@book{playfair1801,
+ author={William Playfair},
+ title={The Statistical Breviary},
+ year=1801,
+ address={London},
+ note = {(Reproduced in The Commercial and Political Atlas
+ and Statistical Breviary, by William Playfair,
+ edited and introduced by Howard Wainer and Ian Spence, 2005)}
+}
 
 __TECH__
+*[SDL+Perl|http://www.perl.com/pub/au/Broadwell_Geoff]
+* [Beautiful Evidence|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0961392177/sr=8-1/qid=1156256265/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1967461-2668741?ie=UTF8], Edward Tufte, 'good design is timeless, while bad design can be a matter of life and death'
+* [Applied Project Management|http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/appliedprojectmgmt/index.html]
 * More pragmatic programmer books
 * alt.sysadmin.recovery
 * [Analysis using math|http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/analysis/]
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 * [David Suzuki's website|http://www.davidsuzuki.org]
 * The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen, Richard Crouse, ISBN 1550225901
 * http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/i-robot.html
+
+!A list of 100 books i should probably check if i've read:
+Index of the 100 science fiction books you just have to read
+http://www.phobosweb.com/features/100books/top100index.html
+# Childhood's End Written by Arthur C. Clarke
+# Foundation Written by Isaac Asimov
+# Dune Written by Frank Herbert
+# Man in the High Castle Written by Philip K. Dick
+# Starship Troopers Written by Robert A. Heinlein
+# Valis Written by Philip K. Dick
+# Frankenstein Written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
+# Gateway Written by Frederick Pohl
+# Space Merchants Written by C.M. Kornbluth & Frederick Pohl
+# Earth Abides Written by George R. Stewart
+# Cuckoo.s Egg Written by C.J. Cherryh
+# Star Surgeon Written by James White
+# The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Written by Philip K. Dick
+# Radix Written by A.A. Attanasio
+# 2001: A Space Odyssey Written by Arthur C. Clarke
+# Ringworld Written by Larry Niven
+# A Case of Conscience Written by James Blish
+# Last and First Man Written by Olaf Stapledon
+# The Day of the Triffids Written by John Wyndham
+# Way Station Written by Clifford Simak
+# More Than Human Written by Theodore Sturgeon
+# Gray Lensman Written by E. E. .Doc. Smith
+# The Gods Themselves Written by Isaac Asimov
+# The Left Hand of Darkness Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
+# Behold the Man Written by Michael Moorcock
+# Star Maker Written by Olaf Stapledon
+# The War of the Worlds Written by H.G. Wells
+# 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Written by Jules Verne
+# Heritage of Hastur Written by Marion Zimmer Bradley
+# The Time Machine Written by H.G. Wells
+# The Stars My Destination Written by Alfred Bester
+# Slan Written by A.E. Van Vogt
+# Neuromancer Written by William Gibson
+# Ender.s Game Written by Orson Scott Card
+# In Conquest Born Written by C.S. Friedman
+# Lord of Light Written by Roger Zelazny
+# Eon Written by Greg Bear
+# Dragonflight Written by Anne McCaffrey
+# Journey to the Center of the Earth Written by Jules Verne
+# Stranger in a Strange Land Written by Robert Heinlein
+# Cosm Written by Gregory Benford
+# The Voyage of the Space Beagle Written by A.E. Van Vogt
+# Blood Music Written by Greg Bear
+# Beggars in Spain Written by Nancy Kress
+# Omnivore Written by Piers Anthony
+# I, Robot Written by Isaac Asimov
+# Mission of Gravity Written by Hal Clement
+# To Your Scattered Bodies Go Written by Philip Jose Farmer
+# Brave New World Written by Aldous Huxley
+# The Man Who Folded Himself Written by David Gerrold
+# 1984 Written by George Orwell
+# The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl And Mr. Hyde Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
+# Snow Crash Written by Neal Stephenson
+# Flesh Written by Philip Jose Farmer
+# Cities in Flight Written by James Blish
+# Shadow of the Torturer Written by Gene Wolfe
+# Startide Rising Written by David Brin
+# Triton Written by Samuel R. Delany
+# Stand on Zanzibar Written by John Brunner
+# A Clockwork Orange Written by Anthony Burgess
+# Fahrenheit 451 Written by Ray Bradbury
+# A Canticle For Leibowitz Written by Walter Miller
+# Flowers for Algernon Written by Daniel Keyes
+# No Blade of Grass Written by John Christopher
+# The Postman Written by David Brin
+# Dhalgren Written by Samuel Delany
+# Berserker Written by Fred Saberhagen
+# Flatland Written by Edwin Abbot
+# Planiverse Written by A.K. Dewdney
+# Dragon.s Egg Written by Robert L. Forward
+# Downbelow Station Written by C.J. Cherryh
+# Dawn Written by Octavia E. Butler
+# Puppet Masters Written by Robert Heinlein
+# The Doomsday Book Written by Connie Willis
+# Forever War Written by Joe Haldeman
+# Deathbird Stories Written by Harlan Ellison
+# Roadside Picnic Written by Boris Strugatsky & Arkady Strugatsky
+# The Snow Queen Written by Joan Vinge
+# The Martian Chronicles Written by Ray Bradbury
+# Drowned World Written by J.G. Ballard
+# Cat.s Cradle Written by Kurt Vonnegut
+# Red Mars Written by Kim Stanley Robinson
+# Upanishads Written by Various
+# Alice in Wonderland Written by Lewis Carroll
+# Hitchhiker.s Guide to the Galaxy Written by Douglas Adams
+# The Lathe of Heaven Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
+# The Midwich Cuckoos Written by John Wyndham
+# Mutant Written by Henry Kuttner
+# Solaris Written by Stanislaw Lem
+# Ralph 124C41+ Written by Hugo Gernsback
+# I Am Legend Written by Richard Matheson
+# Timescape Written by Gregory Benford
+# The Demolished Man Written by Alfred Bester
+# War with the Newts Written by Karl Kapek
+# Mars Written by Ben Bova
+# Brain Wave Written by Poul Anderson
+# Hyperion Written by Dan Simmons
+# The Andromeda Strain Written by Michael Crichton
+# Camp Concentration Written by Thomas Disch
+# A Princess of Mars Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs