http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/ What's Next? Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:16:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/comment-page-1/#comment-51569 rooreynolds.com: Recent Reading Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:20:16 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/#comment-51569 [...] does for Augmented Reality and ARGs what Snow Crash did for the Metaverse. Read it now. (I read Singularity Sky and The Glasshouse last year, and said then that ‘Stross may be my new favourite scifi [...] [...] does for Augmented Reality and ARGs what Snow Crash did for the Metaverse. Read it now. (I read Singularity Sky and The Glasshouse last year, and said then that ‘Stross may be my new favourite scifi [...]

]]> http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/comment-page-1/#comment-18700 Roo Reynolds - What’s Next? » Blog Archive » Recent Reading Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:15:23 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/#comment-18700 [...] Back in September, I listed the books I’d been reading recently. Well, here’s the selection for October (and early November). [...] [...] Back in September, I listed the books I’d been reading recently. Well, here’s the selection for October (and early November). [...]

]]> http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/comment-page-1/#comment-13404 Frank Jania Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:17:52 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/#comment-13404 I never studied any economics, but I fell in love with the subject reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Economics-Undressing-Dismal-Science/dp/0393324869/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4938559-9754464?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190236400&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Naked Economics</a>. I've got a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Economic-Naturalist-Explanations-Everyday-Enigmas/dp/046500217X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4938559-9754464?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190236466&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">few</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Ideas-Dead-Economists-Introduction/dp/0452288444/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4938559-9754464?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190236520&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">other</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Revised-Expanded-Economist-Everything/dp/0061234001/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-4938559-9754464?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190236562&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">economics</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Micromotives-Macrobehavior-Thomas-C-Schelling/dp/0393329461/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4938559-9754464?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190236618&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">books</a> queued as a result. I never studied any economics, but I fell in love with the subject reading Naked Economics. I’ve got a few other economics books queued as a result.

]]> http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/comment-page-1/#comment-13385 Roo Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:41:53 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/#comment-13385 Better than expected. Worth a go. The unfinished book only takes up a chunk (1/4?) of the collection. The majority of it is actually a collection of various articles and presentations. It's quite a nice tribute to the breadth of the man's career and life. Oh, and there's a touching introduction by Stephen Fry (which actually also gives me a chance to point out that <a href="http://stephenfry.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">Stephen as a blog now</a>). Better than expected. Worth a go. The unfinished book only takes up a chunk (1/4?) of the collection. The majority of it is actually a collection of various articles and presentations. It’s quite a nice tribute to the breadth of the man’s career and life. Oh, and there’s a touching introduction by Stephen Fry (which actually also gives me a chance to point out that Stephen as a blog now).

]]> http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/comment-page-1/#comment-13382 Cheesy Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:38:07 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/09/19/recent-reading-material/#comment-13382 How was 'The Salmon of Doubt'? I avoided reading it because I figured it would be mostly a huge tease, and probably a badly edited one at that. How was ‘The Salmon of Doubt’? I avoided reading it because I figured it would be mostly a huge tease, and probably a badly edited one at that.

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