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The 50 Most Loathesome People in America, 2002

Posted: Sun Nov 02 15:34:25 -0800 2003

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Weblogs of Note

dave barry
warblogs.cc
backup brain
heretical ideas
tim bray's 'ongoing'
beck (yes, that beck)
the daily kos (liberal)
bill eisenhauer (friend)
derek gomez: radcap.com (conservative)

Reading: Current

	The Art of Unix Programming Eric S. Raymond
	The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander

Reading: Recently Completed

	Atheism: A Very Short Introduction Julian Baggini
	The Religion War Scott Adams
	Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
	Heroes of History Will Durant
	The Closing of the Western Mind Charles Freeman
	A History of God Karen Armstrong
	Home Theater Hacks McLaughlin
	The Right Nation : Conservative Power in America Micklethwaite, Wooldridge
	Heft on Wheels Mike Magnuson
	Painters and Hackers Paul Graham
	Hardcore Java Simmons
	Art of Java Web Development Ford
	Tomcat: The Definitive Guide Brittain, Darwin
	Running Mac OS X Panther Ford
	Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering Glass
	Extreme Programming Refactored Stephens, Rosenberg
	Moral Politics Lakoff
	The Da Vinci Code Brown
	Lies, and the Lying Liars who Tell Them Franken
	Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Meyer
	America Declares Independence Dershowitz

Reading: Read (since 9.16.99)

Politics: A Very Short Introduction, Minogue

HTTP: The Definitive Guide, Gourley, Totty

Mac OS X Hacks, Rael Dornfest

Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, Wendy Kaminer

The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need, Juliet Schor

God's Debris, Scott Adams

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Paul Fussell

Zen and the Art of Motorycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles, Darwin Holmstrom

The Perfect Vehicle, Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Jaco, Bill Milkowski

The Good, the Bad & the Difference, Randy Cohen

Introducing Ethics, David Robinson, et al

The Career Programmer, Christopher Duncan

A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar

Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris

Euclid's Window, Leonard Mlodinow

Ava's Man, Rick Bragg

Affluenza, John DeGraaf, et al

sed & awk, Dougherty, Robbins

The Unix-hater's Handbook, Simson Garfinkel, et al

XML/RPC, Simon St. Laurent, et al

Core J2EE Patterns, John Krupi, et al

eXtreme Programming Explored, Wake

Software Craftsmanship, McBreen

XML-RPC, St. Laurent, et al

Mastering Regular Expressions, Friedl

Programming Ruby, Thomas, Hunt

Slack, DeMarco

Advanced JavaServer Pages, David Geary

Effective Java, Jeremy Bloch

Learning the vi Editor, Lamb, Robbins

The Secret House, David Bodanis

Unix Tricks and Tips, Kirk Waingrow

Learning the Korn Shell, Bill Rosenblatt

Geeks, John Katz

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond

Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein

Several Books on Solaris and Unix Admin

It's Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong

The Humane Interface, Jef Raskin

The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt

The Water-method Man, John Irving

The Nudist on the Late Shift, Po Bronson

Does the Center Hold?: An Introduction to Western Philosophy, Donald Palmer

Principles of Transaction Processing, Philip Bernstein

In the Beginning Was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson

The Tomb, HP Lovecraft

The Lurking Fear, HP Lovecraft

Secrets, Lies, and Democracy, Chomsky/Barsamian

Hannibal, Thomas Harris

eXtreme Programming eXplained, Kent Beck

Philosophy for Dummies, Tom Morris

Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder

Clear Thinking, Hy Ruchlis

Chomsky for Beginners, David Cogswell

Philosophy, the Basics, Nigel Warburton

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard Feynman

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

Reading: Kicked to the Curb

	Words and Rules Steven Pinker
	The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco

In My Ear

	Girls Can Tell Spoon
	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust David Bowie
	I Can See Your House from Here John Scofield and Pat Metheny
	Murray Street Sonic Youth
	Cor-Crane Secret Polvo
	Spiderland Slint