Media Diet: The Shortlist
I plan on reading, watching, hearing, tasting, and experiencing a great many things. The list is always expanding since there's a Gregorian imperial crap-tonne of cool culture around, and more being produced constantly. This stuff, however, I'm probably going to get around to first: these are the books that I'm ferrying around in a bin in the front seat of my car. I really do plan on reading all of them, and a lot of them wander around with me when I'm not in my car - although I'm doing a really depressing amount of driving lately. Driving needn't be bad, but I have no stereo for the NPR and I drive a huge patriarchymobile that gets cruddy gas mileage. One of the things I'd take out a loan for, if I could take out a loan, would be a hybrid. Gas just slid on past $3/g around here - again - and the TCO of a hybrid is falling even though it's still an investment in the easy-motoring culture. We'll see how that one goes.
In the meantime, listage.
The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information ¹ and Beautiful Evidence *
The Cheese Monkeys *¹
Understanding Comics *¹
Latro of the Mist
The New American Bible ¹ and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia ¹
Who Wrote The Bible ¹
New Testament Fundamentals ¹
No One Cares What You Had For Lunch
Perl: A Beginner's Guide
Dreams From My Father *
Collapse ¹ and Guns, Germs, and Steel *¹
Free Culture *
A Student's Vocabulary For Biblical Hebrew & Aramaic
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Exchange Server Cookbook
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present (I think Michael Oren is probably off his gourd, but this was a gift and it'll be an exercise in critical reading)
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling
The Spoken Word Revolution ¹
* = Finished, subject of future Media Diet post
¹ = Rereading because it's good and I'm in the habit of rereading things.
In the meantime, listage.
The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information ¹ and Beautiful Evidence *
The Cheese Monkeys *¹
Understanding Comics *¹
Latro of the Mist
The New American Bible ¹ and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia ¹
Who Wrote The Bible ¹
New Testament Fundamentals ¹
No One Cares What You Had For Lunch
Perl: A Beginner's Guide
Dreams From My Father *
Collapse ¹ and Guns, Germs, and Steel *¹
Free Culture *
A Student's Vocabulary For Biblical Hebrew & Aramaic
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Exchange Server Cookbook
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present (I think Michael Oren is probably off his gourd, but this was a gift and it'll be an exercise in critical reading)
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling
The Spoken Word Revolution ¹
* = Finished, subject of future Media Diet post
¹ = Rereading because it's good and I'm in the habit of rereading things.