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Munching for the mind.

Everything Bad is Good For You

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I’m sure we’ve all heard enough about how our culture is making our generation stupider and how video games, TV, movies, and the many Internets are destroying our brains. Actually, when I was typing that up, West Hill’s brilliant new reading program popped into my mind. It’s almost as if they felt the need to save us from our own idiocy and make us read to offset the technology around us that is making our minds degenerate and our souls depraved. Continue reading →

The Mythical Man Month

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After The Art of UNIX Programming, I started reading The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. The Mythical Man-Month is about software engineering. It’s not about code. Rather, it talks about how to manage software engineering teams. See, it was written all the way back in the seventies, before the advent of personal computers. Think supercomputers. Yeah. Kinda hard. It was for me too.
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Thinking With Type

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I stumbled upon this book when I went to the companion website which I found on del.icio.us. Already slightly interested in typography after learning about the subtle differences between Arial and Helvetica, I went through the site learning about the basics of typography, like parts of letters and text, and arrangement. I immediately went and ordered the book to be put on hold at my library.
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