Microsoft Office 2007 on Demand - Fascinating stuff. Microsoft's innovation post-Vista, is to add even more steps, and convolute the interface even more. This comes from someone's whose first step after an OS upgrade since WIN98SE is to look for the classical view display. I honestly hate Vista. There is no reason for an operating system to require 2 gigs of memory, just achieve minimally acceptable performance.

Storm World by Chris Mooney. Mooney is a New Orleans native. He also wrote "The Republican War on Science" - whose primary virtue wasn't necessarily the breaking of new ground in exposing politicized science policies, but putting it all together in one place and documenting the hell out of it, from soup to nuts. Storm World is great, it's about all the infighting that goes into the modeling of tropical weather, and the continuing debate on global warming: basically, the data guys vs. the model guys, going back to sea-farers of yore to the present day.

Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism Andrew J. Petto and and Aurie R. Godfrey. A collection of articles rebutting Creationist and ID thought.

Rooms of Our Own Susan Gubar. You may remember Susan from such exciting titles as "Madwoman in the Attic" and as co-editor of the "Norton Anthology of Literature by Women." What? Yeah, I took a bunch of WGS classes. Suck my left one. She's an authoritative author... I don't have to fucking impress you.

Books Read Recently:
We Got the Neutron Bomb Mark Spitz. Less shocking than a Brett Easton Ellis Novel. And I'm not sure how he conducted the interviews, but it's fucking hilarious to read one scene person's take on something or someone, like Cherie from the Runaways, only to have 2 or 3 interviewees contradict whatever the first person had just sworn to. Also the first time I have seen the phrase "Dog Cunt" in print.
Mostly Harmless, Mostly Lame
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, I re-read this every couple of years
Running with Scissors - This is a fucking amazing memoir if you're not squeamish, and can deal with pretty graphic - yet humorously recounted - descriptions of homosexual rape. I was uncomfortable with it, too. But once you realize that the narrator - the rapee - was somewhat down with it, you can sort of compartmentalize it.
God, A Failed Theory - not recommended
That new one by Billy Collins, eh
The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Very Small Space - This was a lot of fun.