Suggested Books

	The Happy Mutant Handbook By Carla Sinclair (Editor) Mark Frauenfelder (Editor) Foreword by Bruce Sterling Lots of ryboflunk, mutant culture, cool stuff on the web, Brain candy, reality hacking, etc. Everything from faking e-mail headers to running your car on grease.
	The Happy Hacker: A Guide to (Mostly) Harmless Computer Hacking By Carolyn P. Meinel Excellent overview of the basics of defensive hacking, from dealing with spammers, reading headers, IRC wars, Packet games, Port surfing, information gathering and more.
	The Tinkertoy Computer and Other Machinations By A. K. Dewdney Talks about alternative computer designs with logic gates made from tinkertoys, billiards, ropes, etc.
	The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence By Gavin de Becker An ex-detective and security consultant, talks about developing the fear instinct to detect danger lots of interesting case studies and examples.
	Mathemagics : How to Look like a Genius without Really Trying By Arthur Benjamin Michael Brant Shermer Introduces rapid math tricks based on left-to-right mathematics
	How To Be Twice As Smart: Boosting your Brainpower and unleashing the miracles of your mind. By Scott Witt Lots of "Mental Leverage" techniques to help you think more efficiently
	The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence By Win Wenger With Richard Poe A good overview and introduction to learning acceleration, photoreading, memetics, image streaming, feedback, and brain-borrowing
	Super-Learning 2000 By Sheila Ostrander Lynn Ostrander With Nancy Ostrander An in-depth study of learning acceleration techniques, Tons of case studies and histories
	Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme By Richard Brodie A good intro to memetics. What memes are, how to recognize, create, and block them.
	The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, Vol. 1 By Marshall T. Savage Arthur C. Clarke (Intro) Examines the stages of development from ocean surface cities and undersea cities to orbital, to planetary, to galactic expansion and the technological breakthroughs that would be required to move from each step to the next. This book was the start of the millinial foundation, now called the Living-Universe Foundation
	The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel By Eugene F. Mallove Gregory L. Matloff An overview of the technological challenges of travel outside the solar system.
	Web Design: Studio Secrets By Deke McClelland Katrin Eismann Terri Stone Each chapter interviews a selected webmaster for tips and techniques from the pro's on everthing from Fonts, Layout, & navigation design, through advanced html, java, css to Datbases and VRML
	Web Pages That Suck By Vincent Flanders Michael Willis Vincent and Michael take a look at a multitude of websites and critique what went wrong, and what could have been done better and how. Throughout the book are useful sidebars giving tips and suggestions to avoid common pitfalls in design. Learn Good techniques from Bad examples