- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. Hopefully softened my brain a little for the AI class that's no longer AI but now programming languages... but... it was good to read again anyhow. Some parts, like Bongard problems, I had completely forgotten (except of course when I read about Zendo, partly inspired by Bongard problems--the fact that the game concept is so zen-related seems to imply GEB was an influence, but I didn't see anywhere it said as much; meanwhile I still haven't played any games with my Icehouse pieces).
- Web: Postvixen's writings on fluorescence. It's the message of a lot of geek media (geek in not only the technical sense), collected: beauty and creativity are systematically destroyed by the contemporary Western government and economy, so how can we encourage more creativity and beauty? This is the meta-issue behind, for example, net radio and copyright legislation: Big Media finds it in their interest to both produce cheaply and own everything, so they squash people working for beauty and government helps.
- Jim Munroe's Everyone in Silico. Being a second read, I can remark it's a nice work of fluorescent fiction: young people and idealists on the side of creativity work against corporate forces.
- Film: Donnie Darko. I wrote on that link about it, but I need to watch it again to get a better handle on it.
- White Light by Rudy Rucker, written about here. Felix goes through Truckee after I wrote that, which is the low middle of the story. More numbers come in later, and to be honest the drug angle doesn't work for me. It's been quite a while since last I read White Light, and it'll be quite a while before I read it again.
The other items left in my Enjoying sidebar list are either songs I saw on MTV2 120 Minutes, or things I bought at McKays yesterday. There's plenty of them.
