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The book club talks about two types of books: fun reads and technical books
Technical Books:
February 2010 - April 2010?
Algorithmic Beauty of Plants by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Astrid Lindenmayer
Context Free, the programming language
github: http://github.com/collexion/lindenmayersystems
Fun Reads:
December 2009 - January 2010
Makers by Cory Doctorow
github: http://github.com/collexion/Makers
Suggested Books For Future Readings (In no specific order):
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines by Kevin Kelly http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/index.php
The Long Emergency and World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler
The Ecotechnic Future by John Michael Greer
"On Intelligence" ( http://www.onintelligence.org/) by Jeff Hawkins
"Making Things Talk" by Tom Igoe - Arduino and Physical computing workbook.
Les Stroud's "Survive! Ultimate Edition"
Anything from from MIT OpenCourseWare
"Building Iphone apps with HTML, CSS, and Javascript"
http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/
"Access All Areas" http://www.infiltration.org/
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman
Programming Erlang
Banned Books: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
Experiments With Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (Paperback)
Morgan's "The Boy Electrician": http://danielwebb.us/projects/pd_tech_books/
The Tesla Papers: Nikola Tesla on Free Energy & Wireless Transmission of Power
Pete Millet's collection http://www.pmillett.com/tecnical_books_online.htm
On the Shoulder of Giants - Stephen Hawking ed - Original Scientific works by Einstein, Netwon, Galileo, Copernicus
One of the O'Reilly Hacks books
http://www.tech-systems-labs.com/books.htm
Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone