[Sussex] The Big SLUG Read

[Gavin Stevens]

A few recent favourites of mine:

Time: A Traveller's Guide - Clifford Pickover
The scientific & theoretical basis for time travel, illuminated with 
printed extracts of the music of Chopin.

The Giza Power Plant - Christopher Dunn
Dunn is an engineer who puts forward a strong case that the Great Pyramid 
of Giza was built using machinery (evidence of rotary blade cuts on the 
stones - not modern). More intriguingly, he suggests (based on various 
design features) that the great pyramid was a MASER (a sort of microwave 
laser) power plant.

Rebel Code - Glyn Moody
Probably well known on this list, this is the story of Linux & Open Source. 
For my money, every bit as exciting as Simon Singh's excellent "Fermat's 
Last Theorem".

Gavin.

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:30:58 -0000, Mark Harrison <Mark at ascentium.co.uk> 
wrote:

> Obviously, we've all read the BBC's big read, but with Christmas coming 
> up,
> a few requests to Santa of the bound-paper kind would be appreciated.
>
> I'm not particularly looking for technical references / O'Reilly stuff, 
> but
> more general reading...
>
> ... some about IT would be nice, but interested on what are the "Top Book
> Recommendations" from fellow SLUGs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
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