Some nice reading

``In the beginning was the command line'', by Neal Stephenson. If you have anything to do with computers in your normal life, you should read this book. It's on the web for free, and it's also available in book form: e.g. get it from Amazon..
``Mother Earth Mother Board'', by Neal Stephenson, from Wired magazine, December 1996.
``Goliath at Bay'', by George Gilder, from Forbes magazine, February 1996.
If the Milo Medin character intrigues you after reading this, look up a short profile of him in Scientific American, January 1997.
``Why the future doesn't need us'', by Bill Joy, from Wired magazine, April 2000. If you get intrigued by Bill Joy after this, look up a profile of him in Fortune magazine.
``The cathedral and the bazaar'', by Eric Raymond. This is a wonderful piece on the process of building software. Eric Raymond is the philosopher who understood why Linux worked as well as it did, and this essay is full of insights on the software development process, and on why Linux and `open source' has worked as well as it did.
Stephen Landsburg's column (on MSN).
How to construct bad charts and graphs by Gary Klass.