Design
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Graphic Design, Information Design
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- * The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward R. Tufte
- Envisioning Information – Edward R. Tufte
- Beautiful Evidence – Edward R. Tufte
- Meggs' History of Graphic Design – Phillip B. Meggs & Alston W. Purvis
- The Elements of Graphing Data – William S. Cleveland
- Logic & Design – Krome Barratt
- * Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art – Scott McCloud
- Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form – Scott McCloud
- Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels – Scott McCloud

Industrial Design
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- The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman
– Designing for People – Henry Dreyfuss
- * Cradle to Cradle – Michael Braungart & William McDonough
- * The Inmates are Running the Asylum – Alan Cooper
– About Face 2.0 – Alan Cooper
- The Humane Interface – Jef Raskin

Game Design
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- Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals – Katie Salen Tekinbas & Eric Zimmerman
- A Theory of Fun – Raph Koster
- [Broken Link] – Chris Crawford
- [Lost Garden](http://www.lostgarden.com/) – Dan Cook

Engineering
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Software Engineering
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- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman
- The Little Schemer – Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, and Gerald J. Sussman
- Hacker's Delight – Henry Warren, Jr.
- The Design and Evolution of C++ – Bjarne Stroustrup
- * [Lambda the Ultimate](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/)
- [CiteSeer](http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/]
- [E.W. Dijkstra Archive](http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/)

Programming Languages
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Good to work with:

- Lua
- OpenLaszlo
- Haskell

Inspiring to read about:

- Infomr
- io
- Erlang
- Fortress
- Clojure

Math
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- Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics – David Hestenes
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos – Steven Strogatz
- Visual Complex Analysis – Tristan Needham
- Gödel, Escher, Back – Douglas Hofstadter

Invention
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- ** The Art of Doing Science and Engineering – Richard Hamming
- And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared – Genrich Altshuller
- [Folklore](http://www.folklore.org/) – Andy Hertzfeld

Society
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Art
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Writing
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- The Careful Writer – Theodore Bernstein
- The Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson
- [RhymeZone](http://www.rhymezone.com/)
- thesaurus.com

Humor
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- [ytmnd](http://ytmnd.com/)
- [Sheepfilms](http://sheepfilms.co.uk/)
- [HappyToast](http://happytoast.co.uk/)
- [Fireland](http://www.fireland.com/)
- Trigger Happy TV
- Look Around You
- [Improv Everywhere](http://improveverywhere.com/)
- [Squelched](http://www.squelched.com/)

Games
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- [Orisinal](http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/) – Ferry Halim
- [Knytt Stories](http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Stories) – Nicklas Nygren
- Braid – Jonathan Blow
- Psychonauts – Tim Schafer
- World of Goo – Kyle Gabler & Ron Carmel
- [Digital: A Love Story](http://scoutshonour.com/digital/) – Christine Love
- Beyond Good and Evil – Michael Ancel
- vvvvvv – Terry Cavanagh

Playing
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Listening
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Comics
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Human Beings
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