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using facebook to correlate favorite books with SAT scores

http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/

have you met my friend? his name is Precious, also known as 'Tax Refund'

bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you own but have not read yet

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick (the shame)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov (shame)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein (got halfway through it)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham

I have

This is a video of a 4-D Rubik's cube, projected into 3 space, then projected into two space, or something

as always, clicky for more

I cracked open my copy of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information tonight,absolutely awe inspiring, with page upon page of staggeringly effective charts.

Yes, I'm getting excited about time-series charts. I'm a geek.

happy thanksgiving to everyone!

the one for the 5200, with the extra balls trapped in the vestibules?

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