by Peter Seibel
-- A fantastic collection of interviews with 15 famous programmers. Contains some great history and insights on the field of "computer science."
-- Geeks, drugs, and deception. An entertaining look into the (fictional) lives of techno con artists, and how a recently-fired comic book artist get pulled into their inner circle.
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-- Particularly useful reference when trying to eek out a few extra milliseconds of load times in older browsers.
-- Interesting tech, and somewhat engaging, but disappointing ending (or lack thereof.)
, by Neil Strauss
-- An engaging, first-person account on transforming from an urban writer into "Jason Bourne."
, by Cory Doctrow
-- A high school hacker fights the 'Department of Homeland Security' to reclaim American civil liberties after anti-terror tactics are taken to a new level.
-- Techniques-for, and the value-of sketching interactivity before developing products. Good ideas. OK book.
" -- About finding untapped opportunities in your market and repositioning yourself to capitalize on them. Easy to grasp; Longer then it needed to be.
" -- A thin book with some good best-practices, but a little disappointing. Perhaps it's JavaScript's fault, not the author's ;-)
" -- Good overview of usability issues in designing HTML forms, backed by examples and eye-tracking research. I bought the 
" by Marshall Goldsmith
-- Discusses interpersonal skills (and how to identify and fix them) that most commonly hold executives back in their career advancement.
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-- Lesson: Cut the corporate B.S. and stop wasting your time. Focus only on what matters most.
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-- Lessons on handling tough conversations: firing people, relationship problems, hostage negotiations (well, maybe not that last one.) Wasn't an exciting read, but I've been paying more attention to "turning points" in conversations since reading it.
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-- Lessons in building reusable ("pluggable") Django applications. Assumes you know the basics of Django and Python.
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-- I really enjoyed this one. Lots of suggestions and strategies for negotiating.
Internet Explorer: Global Variables, and Stack Overflows – File away under "Obscure details to remember about bizarre JavaScript behavior in IE" — this case, " any recursion that happens through the window object is limited to a stack depth of 12"
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Cocoa Text System – Nice examples on how to modify OS X keybindings. I didn't realize you could define macros like this. -
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Teambox | Project collaboration – Looks like a nice way to collaborate on projects. I like the use of short status messages (ala Twitter) and simple task lists. -
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textorize: Pristine font rendering for the web – OS X command-line tool (in Ruby) for rendering bitmap text. -
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manuel’s cyberlisp at master – GitHub – "A Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler" -
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django-devserver – GitHub – A replacement for django's runserver that supports additional debugging/profiling for request handling. Could be handy in development. -
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XUI | javascript micro-framework – A JavaScript "framework" for mobile devices. Something to dig into later… -
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Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation – Yet another Lisp book. Apparently I can't get enough of these… -
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JavaScript speedups in Firefox 3.6 ? Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog – Nice summary of the performance improvements in FF 3.6's JavaScript environment. -
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How to Snatch an Expiring Domain | Mike Industries – Filling away for future reference… -
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Blackberry Supported CSS properties: Alphabetical – Chart of CSS properties supported by Blackberry devices. Handy for mobile web dev. -
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Let Over Lambda – Another Lisp book… -
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Leaf Labs : maple – Arduino-compatible board using a 72 MHz ARM Cortex M3 chip. Sounds like it's still a work in progress, but might offer Arduino hackers a more powerful alternative in the near future! -
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gordon – GitHub (Flash player written in JavaScript) – "An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript." Clever. Has some nice code to read through. -
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Perfection kills » Understanding delete – Detailed post on JavaScript's "delete" specification and the implementations found in various browsers. Good read for JS programmers. -
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Introduction to newLISP – Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks – Yet another Lisp ebook, this time for newLISP.Here’s a PDF Version as well (which is a bit easier to read, IMO.)
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Successful Lisp – Another decent looking online book for Common Lisp. -
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DIY Arduino Based Pulse Oximeter Part I (with video) | tinkerish.com – A simple solution for detecting pulse, and hopefully blood oxygen levels using LED's and a light sensor. -
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etherpad – Project Hosting on Google Code – Open sourced, as promised. Hopefully some of this code is reusable and will help increase the popularity of collaborative text editors (which are WAY underutilized, IMO.) -
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MIT TechTV – Machine Shop Videos – Nicely done "intro to machine shop" instructional videos.