I’m not a typography nerd. Got it? Well, OK, perhaps I am. A bit. Nerds and non-nerds alike will enjoy Lupton’s wonderful book. It manages to be entertaining and informative without feeling too didactic. The coverage of the history of …

Here’s all the books that I read in 2012, by month. On the each month's page there’s quick review or synopsis of each book. …

The original Pragmatic Programmer book was pretyy influential on me when it came out and I’ve really enjoyed a few other books in the series. This book is no exception to that. There's a lot of se …

A really intriguing glimpse of Eldridge Cleaver's political development, focussing on the black panthers and other revolutionary black power struggles in the US in the 60s and 70s. Deeply poetic, passionate, angry a …

I am not a designer. But I do often end up doing design. That's why I was interested in this title. Now the PDF ended up on a machine I control, so I grabbed a copy to see what it was like. I thought it w …

My pal penguin recommended that I read this one. Its a lovely pop maths (if that is even a genre) investigation, taking in everything from the anthropology of number and counting to the history of maths to why the …

I like a challenge, learning seven programming languages in seven weeks seemed like a challenge. I’m blogging about it. I doubt I’ll finish in seven weeks; at least not seven consecutive ones! …

Let me first just mention that prepending the word post to any body of thought – post-anthropology, say – doesn't magically result in a rejuvination of that thought as some theorists are wont to believe. Howe …

Turing's 1936 paper on Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem is something of a geek classic, introducing important concepts like the Universal Turing Machine. I’m no mathemetician even though I r …

Here’s a list of books I read in 2011, by month. On the monthly page there’s quick review or synopsis of each book.Update 2011-02-25 I’ve realised that this page was going to get ridiculous by the end of the year, so I’ve split my reading lists up by month.Update …