Thing I couldn't put down

2005 has been a banner reading year for me. I have feasted my eyes on more excellent literature this year, both online and in my easy chair, than in the last three years combined. My number one pick would be “The Elegant Universe” by Brian Greene. The PBS NOVA special of the same name hosted by Greene is available for online viewing at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/ After watching it (all three hours!) I HAD to have the book. Few men, especially super-geek physicists, have such a mastery of the English language and such an ability to explain arcane subjects. I may still be a little fuzzy on string theory, but that’s not the books fault, it’s my lack of a full brane. Number two is available online, and not by coincidence. “The Cluetrain Manifesto” by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinburger leaves corporate America with a bloody nose and it’s pants down. It takes guts to open a book with the line “People of the Earth…” and from then on they just keep punching. Deep insight into what the internet is and isn’t, and how it has changed us forever. They state that the internet is really about people telling people stories, and they tell one hell of a story. Full text at http://www.cluetrain.com/book/ Someone should send a copy to the RIAA - those guy truly need a clue.