a little late - year in review, 1
The following were, roughly in order, what I finished reading during 2006. Many of these I've reviewed, the rest are probably not worth the trouble of reviewing. Feel free to ask about them. This is not a complete list, but it's pretty close; Webpages
can be very long and I'm sure I've read a book or two in a single static html page over the year, but it's pretty accurate overall.
Books/Stories
The Price of Success - Women and Success
IBM System/360 Assembly Language Programming
Stupid White Men Michael Moore
IEEE Computer 1983 October - Knowledge Representation
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Craphound - Cory Doctorow *(audiobook)
Printcrime - Cory Doctorow
What do you care what other people think - Richard Feynmann *(audiobook)
Rise of the Computer State - David Burnham
Code Complete - Steve McCollen
Business Cycle Indicator Handbook - The Conference Board
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Language & Politics - Noam Chomsky
Dune - Frank Herbert
BodyHammer - Tactics and Self-Defense for the Modern Protester - v.1.1 - sarin
Databanks in a Free Society - National Academy of Sciences, 1976, Alan Westin
The Age of Spiritual Machines, 1995 - Ray Kurzweil
Fundamentals of Software Engineering - Carlo Ghezzi, Mehdi Jazayeri, Dino Mandrioli
Advanced Bash Scripting Guide - thegrendel
The phoenix on the sword - Robert E Howard
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (Best)
Data Sructures & Algorithm Analysis in C++ - Mark Allen Weiss
Lensman Chronicles Vol I - E E 'Doc' Smith ( Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol )
Physics - GIANCOLLI
Discrete mathematics and its a pplications, kenneth h rosen
Using Boreland C++, (c)1991
Statistics - A first course - second canadian edition, Sanders, Smidt, adatia, Larson(uregina prof)
How To Solve It: Modern Heuristics - Michalewicz, Fogel
King of the Vagabonds - Neal Stephenson
Magazines
2600 vol 20, issue 1-4
vol 22, issue 3-4
vol 23, issue 2
Significantly long articles
Dragon in my Garage - Carl Sagan
How to build a universe that doesn't fall apart - Phillip k Dick (Runner Up)
Industrial Society And Its Future (Unabomber Manifesto) - Theodore Kaczynski
Bank oF Canada Annual review 2005 - Bank of Canada
Time Travel and Computing - 1991 - Hans Moravec
Protecting the Idle Rich - William Patry
The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon - Jamais Cascio
Report on Computers - Jeff Cliff - 1999, Psych 20 report
The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan, Playboy Magazine March 1969 © by Playboy
The Hidden story of Bill C-54 The personal information protection and electronic documents act and health information - barbara von tigerstrom
Decision Making and Problem Solving - Herbert A Simon
also George B Dantzig, Robin Hogarth, Charles R Piott, Howard Raiffa, Thomas C Schelling, Kennth A Shepsle, Richard Thaier, Amos Tversky
Sidney Winter.
Other Articles/Papers
RFC 1866
Why a 5 per cent Sales Tax Won't Eliminate Alberta's Personal Income Tax By Melville McMillan
"Sustainability and the Changing Notion of Fairness" Gail Fosler, The Conference Board
"Priced To Sell: The Evolution of Underpricing in Canadian Initial Public Offerings", Nancy Ursel
'Predicting Recessions and Booms'- the conference board
"After Displacement, Who Wins? Who Loses?"- Janice Foley(uregina, admin), the conference board
"The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog
Lada Adamic, Natalie Glance, HP Labs Intelliseek Applied Research Center, 4 March 2005
"TRIPS: Ten Years of Disputes at the WTO"- Sue Ann Mota & co
"Sweating in Europe: The European Database Directive" Amar A. Hasan
"In re World Auxiliary Power Co." Adam Moore & co
"Ninth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Jailhouse Webcams" Rob Sayles
"Ninth Circuit Holds That Distributors of File-Sharing Software Are Not Liable for Their Users' Copyright Infringement
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd."-Suzanne Sprague-Trammell
"Mouseland"-Tommy Douglas (CEP Journal)
Iran: Consequences of a War - Oxford Research Group
May 16 2006 Open Letter to Minister of Canadian Heritage from IntellectualPrivacy.ca
BACKGROUND PAPER: CRITICAL PRIVACY ISSUES IN CANADIAN COPYRIGHT REFORM MAY 17, 2006 -IntellectualPrivacy.ca
Review of the Export Development Act -
Presentation to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Joan Kuyek, National Co-ordinator - MiningWatch,
Chomsky tenacious about controversy: Linguist talks about morality, media, God - Bonnie Dhall
MEDIA LENS MEDIA ALERT 18th November 2004 THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES AND THE REAL POLITICS OF FEAR - media lens
GNU General Public License version 3, Draft 2 - FSF
Bjarn Strousup - the C++ Style FAQ
Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States - Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters (USA, Ret.)
What is General Intelligence? - SingInst
What Is OpenDocument - by Sam Hiser
Amateur to Amateur - CATO
Jim Lobe, "The Strong Must Rule the Weak: A Philosopher for an Empire"
(Silver City, NM & Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, May 12, 2003).
DMCA 1201 Exemption Transcript, April 11 - Censorware
United States Of America, Library Of Congress, Copyright Office, Rulemaking Hearing, Friday, April 11, 2003
CIPA Transcript - Supreme Court, with Justices, Pages 1--59 from 02-361. United States v. American Library Assn., Inc. (03/05/03)
Ignoble liars: Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the philosophy of mass deception - Harper's Magazine, June, 2004 by Earl Shorris
GNU Coding Standards - FSF
The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh - Gore Vidal
Juan Antonio Montecino, "Cleaving a False Divide in Latin America," (Silver City, NM & Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, September 28, 2006).
rfc 791
The Transparent Society - David Brin, Wired 1996 Issue 4.12
Technology in Government - Vol 13 Issue 4 Sept 2006 - www.itbusiness.ca (IBM propeganda?)
The Effects of a Global Thermonuclear War - 4th edition: escalation in 1988 - by Wm. Robert Johnston - last updated 18 August 2003
LANGUAGE by Bjorn Sletto
Twelve Virtues of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky - 2006
A Touch of Gray - Tung Tran and Ali Zomorodi
PAPER BY HIS EXCELLENCY MR. HUBERT VÉDRINE AND - HIS EXCELLENCY MR. ANDRÉ AZOULAY ON THE - ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT alliance of civilizations
fuzzy logic overview - Erik Horstkotte, Togai InfraLogic, Inc
Ideas in Computer Audio Recognition - Benjamin Harack - 200233410
Fuzzy Logic Introduction - Martin Hellmann, March 2001
Look-Ahead based fuzzy decision tree induction, Ming Dong, Student member, IEEE, Ravi kothari, Senior member IEEE
Fuzzy based approach to the recognition of multi font numerals,
madasu hanmandlu, department of electrical eng, llt delhi, new delhi 110016 india, mhamandlu@ee.iitd.ernet.in
mohd. hafizuddin mohd yusof, faculty of information technology, multimedia university, cyberjaya 63100, selangor, malaysia
hafizuddin.yusof@mmu.edu.my
vamsi krishna madasu, school of itee, university of queensland, QLD 4072, madasu@itee.uq.edu.au
The Anti-war Speech That Earned Eugene Debs 10 Years in Prison
Genetically modified organisms change climate. - Irina Ermakova
Parliamentary Information and research service, library of parliament, In breif, nancy holmes, 22 feb 2006, PRB 05 85 E
The National Post Thursday, July 1, 1999 Judges draw on absurd examples by Mark Hume
Wired News Thursday, June 24, 1999 9:15am, PDT Canadian Furor Over Net Filters by Jennifer Ditchburn, chicas@iosphere.net
GLOBAL INTERNET LIBERTY CAMPAIGN (GILC) ELECTRONIC FRONTIER CANADA (EFC) --- PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, September 29, 1998)
Minister John Manley to open "Public Voice" Internet conference organized by the Global Internet Liberty Campaign
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER CANADA (EFC) PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, September 15, 1998) - Cryptography is not a weapon
- EFC calls for elimination of controls on cryptography exports
Global Internet Liberty Campaign Statement on Canadian Crypto Policy April 20, 1998
EFC- GLIC- Monday, April 27, 1998) International Human Rights Organizations Express Privacy Concerns About Canadian Cryptography Policy
The National Post - Monday, May 17, 1999 - Ottawa to push through privacy bill 'Reasonable compromise': Delay could have hurt firms doing
business in Europe by David Akin, dakin@nationalpost.com
Salon Magazine Monday, April 26, 1999 Technology Book Review Privacy Pleas - Amitai Etzioni's "The Limits of Privacy" sees
civil libertarians as a danger and government as the solution to all our problems. - Mike Godwin, mnemonic@well.com
Canadian Business Magazine Friday, February 26, 1999 What price privacy? Zero-Knowledge's Freedom software promises
absolute anonymity on the Net. But extending the right to privacy to racists, pedophiles, and crooks
could be more than the market will bear by Anita Lahey
The Canadian Press Thursday, September 3, 1998 Legislation needed to protect privacy of medical records: report by Dennis Bueckert
The trouble with programming, interview, Bjarne Stroustrup(sp?)
The New Interventionism: Low-Intensity Warfare in the 1980s and Beyond - Michael T Klare and Peter Kornbluh
from "Low Intensity Warfare", published by KEN incorporated - Philippines, 1988
(Third World Traveller)
Jochen Hippler - Low intensity warfare and its implications for NATO
(written in December 1988)
3 most notable
It's a hard thing to do to pick a selection from these works, since most of you probably don't have prerequisites to really
technical things, and yet that may be where the jems are. And how does exactly one rank one work over others? It's somewhat subjective, subject to my elation on the day I read it, among other things.
But I'll try
1) The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
2) How to build a universe that doesn't fall apart - Phillip k Dick
3) Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson