I am Siddhartha. You’re Siddhartha! by Hermann Hesse You simply don’t know what to believe, but you’re willing to try anything once. Western values, Eastern values, hedonism and minimalism, you’ve spent some time in every camp. But you still don’t have any idea what camp you belong in. This makes you an individualist of the [...]

Full, free PDF of INFECTED | Scott Sigler is giving away a pdf of his book Infected. It’s been free as a podcast. Crown Publishing picked it up and prior to its debut it’s available at the above link. You can get it between now and the 31st and can buy the book at Amazon [...]

Harper Collins is letting folks read American Gods by Neil Gaiman gratis, with Neal’s blessing natch. Neal let his blog readers pick the book. The results? 68,000 unique visitors, 3,000,000 pages viewed, and an increase in sales of 300%. How cool is that? If all my readers went and did likewise that would make 68,003. [...]

Cory Doctorow, geek god, defender of all things open source, and generally great podcaster/writer is releasing a new book this year, Little Brother Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the [...]

So last night I got a wild hair (hare?) and decided to whip up some more recipes. I fixed up a batch of Truffle Brownies, Meringues and Chocolat au chocolat ice cream. I love to cook, it’s good for my soul. Not so much my wasitline, but I brought several samples to work today and [...]

Somewhere while tripping through the food-blogosphere I ran into Pure Chocolate: Divine Desserts and Sweets from the Creator of Fran’s Chocolates. After I apologized to the book for the nasty bump I immediately added it to my wish list, intending to purchase it. As with most things, that never happened, but I was pleasantly surprised [...]

So I caught the end of the 1960 version of H. G. Wells Time Machine. It’s been far too long since I read the book (if, in fact, I have) so I’ve no idea how close it stuck, but at the end George returns to the future to build a new civilization with the Eloi [...]

As you can see by my sidebar I’m reading what has become known as The Art of War by Sun Tzu. From today’s reading this jumped out at me, “In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.” This section focuses largely on the need to make war quickly and to use [...]

So I know you’re all waiting with bated breath to hear how my birthday weekend was. Well it was a bit of a mixed bag, but good overall.

is a book by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. The words are listed below with links to the M-W definition (I hope). What do you think and how did you do?