No sex in the playpen ball room

Second-to-last post--leaving LiveJournal, details to follow

2008-03-19T02:37:20Z

I'm leaving LiveJournal. No, it's not you. And it's not me. It's them:

LJ crossed the line. Pure and simple. In this case, I'm a one-issue voter.

Sometime in the near future, I'll post a content-rich explanation.

I really don't like shilling for causes in any form online. Even topic-appropriate community promo posts kind of bother me. And don't get me started on email forwards.

That said, if you feel like I feel, spread the word. If you gank my new icon, credit Randall Munroe: http://xkcd.com/377/

Thanks for reading.

This should be interesting

2008-03-16T04:12:55Z

I've put up online personals before, but always anonymously--with no identifying information that would automatically reveal my identity to someone who knows me irl. Then I found OKCupid, that totally free, designed by nerds, populated by geeks personals site. And I put up a face pic. (Which is pretty much the only type of pic they'll accept.)

This past week, two ex-co-workers have viewed my profile, each with a possible axe to grind: one whose job I took, and one whom I had a hand in firing. Oh, and I'm not out at work, but openly admit to being transsexual on my OKCupid profile. EDIT: And they're both uber-gossips.

This should be interesting.

In other news

2008-03-12T02:32:15Z

I swear, if not for Anywho, that would be the phrase I overuse the most.

Work today:
a replacement freezer stuck (frozen?) in Columbus, Ohio.
a star seller with a back injury, out till Thursday.
a fulltimer quitting with negative notice.

Miscellaneous links I've collected over the past few weeks:

CLIENT: How does that work? How are you able to get another company to get rid of something that's part of their business?
Kelly: we push the negative links back in serch engines
Kelly: so nobody will see that ones
CLIENT: So you like make new internets and push the bad internets down
Kelly: yes
CLIENT: My keywords are lolcats

"I'm really nobody." Consulting babelfish . . . translation: "I'm a 6'4" white guy who runs a sub 4.2 40."

Supposedly he has audio of these, and didn't just make them up.

R2, a la Mieville?

Han never thawed (and Jabba wouldn't fit in that chair)

$4.96 and 1 hour and 59 minutes of my life . . .

2008-03-12T02:09:34Z

that I'll never get back.

Dark, violent, stripped down . . . yet wonderfully obtuse and pretentious.

Can you guess what I just watched?

Wake me up when Batman hits.

Most ingenious rickroll EVER

2008-02-27T15:44:08Z

Behold today's xkcd strip. Randall Munroe is, indeed, a god among men.

There once was a website so rhymy

2008-02-26T03:49:43Z

http://limerickdb.com/

From your friendly xkcd creator, so you know it's good. A few examples:

A preoccupied vegan named Hugh
picked up the wrong sandwich to chew.
He took a big bite
before spitting, in fright,
"OMG, WTF, BBQ!"

A dying mosquito exclaimed,
"A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
The cause of his sorrow
Was para-dichloro-
Diphenyl-trichloroethane

Many examples featuring geeky and internet in-jokes, like programming languages, stupid abbreviations (see first example), science references (see second example), lolcats, even rickrolling. One thing that bugs me, though, is that I don't get the top-rated limerick on the whole site. Could anyone explain this to me? I have a feeling I'm either not geeky enough or haven't seen the right movie.

There once was a buggy AI
Who decided her subject should die.
When the plot was uncovered,
The subjected discovered
That sadly the cake was a lie.

Happiness is phallic in nature

2008-02-26T03:00:34Z

Someone on my friends list wrote that "Happiness is a new strap on." Happiness is also a warm gun. Hmm. Does anyone know anything else that happiness is, that is not phallic in nature?

I'm doing some culling this week, and not in a friends list cut way. Too much of my life since, say, my last post has been about going to sleep late, waking up either a) even later--when I don't have to work, or b) too early given when I went to sleep--when I do have to work. Too many 4-hour and 12-hour nights of sleep, not enough in the 7-9 hour range. Too much of my life has also been about surfing the internet with no purpose in mind and watching TV in a similar vein. Too little of my life has been about regular meals, exercising, playing stupid flash-based computer games, drinking enough water, keeping my space clean, playing good poker (fortunately at this point in my life I'm not dumb enough to play--much--when I'm not functioning close to optimally), focusing on my personal appearance (in terms of transition, not everyday grooming), getting my taxes done so I can get my refund soon, balancing my checkbook, writing here and elsewhere, meeting new people, reconnecting with "old" people, and keeping up with my laundry.

So here are the things that are going:
--many of the RSS feeds I read. Kept are (sorry, can't be bothered linking, but you can find them) boingboing, boingboing gadgets, OhGizmo!, xkcd, xkcd blag, and gadizmo. (DONE)
--a whole lot of paper on and around my desk. (STARTING TOMORROW)
--extra books. So far, three large boxes worth. Every book I own now fits on my shelves, but there are more to give away or donate. If you want any and will pay a bit towards postage, take a look at my list here. (IN PROGRESS)
--a bunch of games I downloaded. (DONE)
--extra articles of clothing I haven't worn since 2006. (IN PROGRESS)
--extra CDs. If I haven't listened to it since 2006, it's either getting ripped and tossed/donated/given away or just tossed/donated/given away. (THIS WEEK AND NEXT)

Here are the things that are being added:
--8 hours of sleep at least five days a week, and at least 6 hours the other two
--bed by 11:30 at least five days a week, and by 1:00 the other two
--exercise upon waking
--four glasses of water a day (and two cups of green or white tea)
--regular body hair maintenance (I'm trying out MOOM, and so far it works great)
--taxes done by March 7
--getting back in touch with one old friend and another group of friends by March 4
--10 hours of poker a week
--three regular meals a day
--U23D before it finishes its run at IMAX theater in the Palisades Center

Hmm, sounds like a belated new year's resolutions list.

I've found myself shying away from any news coverage of the democratic nomination race. And I can't exactly pin down why, but I really want Obama to win. Maybe one reason is the kind of thing that keeps popping up in places like this week's cover of The Economist. "But could he deliver?" As if the chance that he couldn't would be reason to elect someone who wouldn't even talk about trying. Arrrgh. But I did find one (yes, one) piece of political commentary that made sense to me and gave me some room to argue my choice of candidate. Pull quote: "I want Jon Stewart to smile again."

Let me temper the previous paragraph by inserting my once-yearly plug for a piece of the military-industrial complex. If you've read Snow Crash, you may have been waiting for the day when Reason would become a reality. Well, we're one giant step closer. If it follows anything like the trend of processor miniaturization, we can expect a suitcase-sized model right around mid-century!

Finally, speaking of futurism, Ray Kurzweil (his wikipedia entry is being disputed over neutrality issues, so feel free to find your own links) delivered one of the keynotes at GDC 2008 this past week, and not one flippin person seems to have transcribed it or posted a video of it. Not one! (Okay, here's a nice outline, though.) On the entire internets! Either that or Google is not omniscient. Either way, I'm not sure that bodes well for a few of the predictions he made: like reverse engineering the human brain and effective immortality by 2029. I mean, all of the proletariat's energy and focus regarding GDC 08 seems to be on the next great FPS. Maybe it's the technological elite who will be spearheading all the advances. Of course, that means that they'll be the ones reaping the benefits, too, while they drop a paltry few billion a year to develop Opiate of the Masses--I mean, Metal Gear Solid v. 5 through v. 50 or so. Anywho, I'm blaming the first part of this entry--the get-off-your-ass-before-the-world-passes-you-by part--on the little coverage of Kurzweil's address that I could find. I mean, a decade ago, if you blew a year or two futzing around before getting down to business and becoming, say, a professional internet gambler, you'd still be able to catch up pretty quickly. Now? With computers disappearing and high-bandwidth connection to the Internet becoming ubiquitous by 2010? You'd be left in the dust.

Just. No. Words.

2008-02-11T05:41:06Z

Anonymous is here

2008-02-11T05:29:08Z

Here
there
and
everywhere

Just thought you'd like to know.

Want!!!

2008-02-05T05:06:44Z

Estrogen earrings!

Full of Win(d'ohs)

2008-02-04T04:37:51Z

I know jackshizzy about fark, but these were funny:

More (but not better) here.

And thank you to the Giants for the best football game I've ever watched and the best play I've ever seen.

mashups

2008-02-01T04:13:55Z

Hadn't seen this site before last week. Check out these mashups if you'd like. I think I've weeded out most of the crappy ones. :) If you want the external link, click here.

The first one almost ruined the rest for me, it's so good. Granted, the chorus doesn't work 100% perfectly, but the rest is WOW. Other favorites: just about everything by DJ Earworm, some of the Beastles tracks, and the Elton John/Fresh Prince one. The challenge in doing one of these seems to be making it work over the course of an entire track--a lot of them are really catchy or funny during the first minute, but there's nothing new after that. Okay, the Elton John/Fresh Prince one falls into that category.

Other mashup sites I've been browsing recently:

Bootie USA and The Bootie Blog
DJ Earworm
Gnarls Biggie
Gnotorius
The Rise and Fall of Thuggy Stardust

There was also a funny collection I ran across called "It Is to Laff," but it looks like it got taken down. Boingboing linked to it here and the links to individual tracks there still work, but the main album page seems to have vanished.

So I mentioned filling up an mp3 player

2008-01-19T04:51:03Z

Here's what with:

My regular rotation currently includes the following:
U2--1987 and after
Foo Fighters--Echoes, Silence, etc.
Kanye West--all three, but particularly Graduation
Shel Silverstein--The Great Conch Train Robbery
Gnarls Barkley--St. Elsewhere
Herbert--Scale
Selected tracks from Alicia Keys's new album
Getting acquainted with Jay-Z and RHCP--haven't had anything from them before last month

And thats . . . about it. I have a decent stack of CDs that are basically in storage for how often I listen to them. But you can see how it might take me a while to fill two gigs of an mp3 player.

Entering the 21st century

2008-01-19T01:18:27Z

With a checking account balance of over $2,000 (at least for a few hours), I decided to take a tentative first step into the 21st century.

Ordered my first-ever mp3 player (and actually got another for my dad) here for $52 for the pair. (They also now have this one for $5 more, but after reading a few reviews I decided to stick with the basic model--it's going to take me quite a while to fill up 2 GB anyway.)

Ordered a digital camera (so I don't have to keep borrowing my parents' old one--circa 2000 maybe?) here. Might even buy *gasp!* a memory stick for it down the road! Have to see how it does on video recording first.

Ordered some other stuff that I won't talk about in this journal. (But if you really want to know, ask, and I might tell you where I do talk about it.)

(Trying not to be so parenthetically inclined.)

Bonus: these three links make really cool use of the nature of web pages to demonstrate scale--in general, in the solar system, and in a hydrogen atom, respectively.

The night boingboing went crazy

2008-01-17T01:00:31Z

Holy crap. I just checked the boingboing feed and I have been completely inundated. When I finally came up for air, I had twelve tabs open in Firefox with links worth sharing. Normally, I would just throw a line into the bottom of a post saying something like, "Do you know what you're missing by not reading boingboing?" but today I think I MUST re-link to at least some of them. Here ya go:

Aaron writes that South Carolina wants to run a freeway through his great-great-grandfather's home, and they need evidence of "public 'outcry'" in the form of a petition to reroute the road. South Carolina doesn't give a whoop-de-twa who signs it, as long as lots of people do. Not surprisingly, there's a website that is set up for just such projects. Go make your voice heard! (Sure beats voting in a primary.)

Just try getting this piece of jewelry past Homeland "Security."

Wasn't there an oil crisis in the 70's? $6.98 seems like quite a bargain for a(n apparently suburbs-legal) flame gun.

Didn't get enough pirates from Monday's post? Check out the Pirate's Dilemma video slideshow--apparently complete with Venn diagrams!

One-upping the ad agents who released a quarter of a million superballs down a hilly street in San Francisco, these guys went with bigger balls (natch), more balls, and a holy landmark, to boot! And apparently without a profit motive. The patterns in the fountains afterwards are geometrically mezmerizing.

It's not quite Cthulu, but this pizza channels Lovecraft very effectively.

"Our enemy has no intellectual capital to bring to the battle." Yarrrgh!

2008-01-14T07:38:01Z

I feel it is my civic duty to inform everyone that Sweden has a Pirate Party.

Nothing in particular

2008-01-11T17:45:44Z

What I said the other day about thank god the Daily Show is back? Um, I watched last night and . . . not so much. Would the studios PLEASE agree to pay the writers for online content? Until you do, I won't be tuning in. KTHXBAI.

Meanwhile, there's always this from the same team:

In other news, I've worked out twice in the last five days. Twice in five days because after the first day of 15 Hindu pushups and 20 Hindu squats, I had aches in my neck, back, shoulders, hips, quads and thighs that made it damn near impossible to even think about trying that again without a few days off to recuperate. This served as quite the effective reminder that a) I'm actually pretty out of shape, and b) Combat Conditioning freakin' works. I'm hooked again. I hope. It would be one of the better things I could get addicted to.

Poker: good when I'm not tired (+$20 to +$25 an hour six-tabling $25 NL), not so good when I'm tired (-$25 to -$50 an hour at the same stakes). Lesson learned.

"My brain's not on strike, brotha!"

2008-01-10T05:22:38Z

Oh, and "We have President Homer."

This is just a filler post, really. Thank GOD The Daily Show is back.

Merry Chrifsmas!

2007-12-25T16:51:13Z

Giveaways and wish lists

2007-12-21T04:12:55Z

So I gave away the following books today to a teacher my mom works with and my mom's school library (bold titles highly recommended by moi):

Fiction:
1984 by George Orwell (mass market)
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (mass market)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (mass market)
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake edited by DavidV. Erdman (trade)
The Disposessed by Ursula K. LeGuin (mass market)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick (mass market)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (mass market)
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (three volume trade boxed set, still shrink-wrapped!)
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz Kafka (one volume) (hardcover)
Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (mass market)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle (trade)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams (all five novels plus Young Zaphod Plays It Safe) (hardcover)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (trade)
Wandering Warrior by Da Chen (advance reader's copy) (trade)

Non-fiction:
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (trade)
Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell their Coming Out Stories edited by Patrick Merla (trade)
A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann (trade)
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1995 edition) (trade)
The Portable Thoreau edited by Carl Bode (trade)

The rest of my swap/giveaway list is behind the cut below (long!).

Having done my good deed for the season, I now feel entitled to lust after a few gift items that I know I'm not getting. :)

this:

and this:

Bold titles are highly recommended

Fiction:

The Alienist by Caleb Carr (mass market)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (mass market)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (trade)
Analog 1 edited by John W. Campbell (mass market)
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (the novel in translation) (trade)
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (trade)
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds (mass market)
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd (trade)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (trade)
Cuckoo's Egg by C. J. Cherryh (hardcover)
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem (trade)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (advance reader's copy) (trade)
Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison (trade)
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (mass market)
The Dim Sum of All Things by Kim Wong Keltner (advance reader's copy) (trade)
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (mass market)
A Doll's House / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen (four plays in one volume) (mass market)
The Etched City by K. J. Bishop (trade)
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King (hardcover)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (mass market)
Fall of a Kingdom by Hilari Bell (mass market)
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (mass market)
Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham (trade)
Forerunner by Andre Norton (hardcover)
The Forever War by Joseph Haldeman (mass market)
Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov (mass market)
Foundation's Triumph by David Brin (hardcover)
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke (trade)
The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (mass market)
Glass Dragons by Sean McMullen (mass market)
The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury (mass market)
Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane (mass market)
Good Poems selected by Garrison Keillor (hardcover)
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad (two books in one) (mass market)
Hosts by F. Paul Wilson (mass market)
The Hunt for Red October (mass market)
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (mass market)
I am Legend by Richard Matheson (trade)
Ilium by Dan Simmons (mass market)
In the Beginning by Chaim Potok (mass market)
It's Superman! by Tom De Haven (trade)
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (mass market)
King of a Small World by Rick Bennet (trade)
Kushiel's Avatar/Chosen/Dart by Jacqueline Carey (three separate books) (mass market)
Light by M. John Harrison (mass market)
Live Without a Net edited by Lou Anders (mass market)
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (mass market)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (mass market)
No Present Like Time by Steph Swainston (trade)
Olympos by Dan Simmons (mass market)
On the Beach by Neville Shute (mass market)
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear (advance reader's copy) (trade)
Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler (mass market)
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (mass market)
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid (mass market)
The Promise by Chaim Potok (mass market)
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds (mass market)
Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds (mass market)
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (mass market)
The Riverside Chaucer (hardcover)
The Scar by China Mieville (mass market)
Screwball by Dave Ferrell (advance reader's copy) (trade)
Sensei by John Donohue (mass market)
Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella (mass market)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (trade)
Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen (mass market)
The Stand by Stephen King (hardcover)
Sundiver by David Brin (mass market)
The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson (mass market)
Tropic of Night by Michael Gruber (mass market)
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (hardcover)
The Uplift War by David Brin (mass market)
Valley of Bones by Michael Gruber (mass market)
The Vintage Bradbury by Ray Bradbury (mass market)
Voyage of the Shadowmoon by Sean McMullen (mass market)
W3: Women in Deep Time by Greg Bear (mass market)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (mass market)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (mass market)
The Wave by Walter Mosley (advance reader's copy) (trade)
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle (trade)
The Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn (mass market)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (mass market)
Year's Best SF 11 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (mass market)

Non-fiction:

The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions by David Ray Griffin (trade)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley (mass market)
The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach (hardcover)
Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins (trade)
Baseball Confidential by Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo (trade)
Beethoven: Symphonies 1-4, Symphonies 5-7, Symphonies 8 & 9 (three separate volumes, full score, Dover editions) (trade)
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast (trade)
Brahms: The Complete Symphonies in Full Score (Dover edition) (trade)
Branch Rickey: A Biography by Murray Polner (hardcover)
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (hardcover)
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud (translated and edited by James Strachey) (trade)
E=MC2 (Squared, but I can't make superscript work here): A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis (trade)
Everything Scrabble by Joe Edley and John D. Williams, Jr. (trade)
Everything You Know Is Wrong by Russ Kick (trade)
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings edited by Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen (fifth edition) (trade)
Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories (trade)
The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins (trade)
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (hardcover)
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! Collected Essays 1934-1998 by Arthur C. Clarke (trade)
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln (mass market)
How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read (hardcover)
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill (trade)
Impossible Worlds: The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher / Adventures with Impossible Objects / Optical Illusions by Bruno Ernst, The Graphic Work by M. C. Escher (coffee table hardcover)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (trade)
It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins (2001 edition) (trade)
The Journeys of Socrates by Dan Millman (advance reader's copy) (trade)
Just Words: Law, Language, and Power by John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr (trade)
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester (advance reader's copy) (hardcover)
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken (hardcover)
The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln (mass market)
Mister Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers by Ed Sikov (trade)
Movies and Methods: Volume II edited by Bill Nichols (trade)
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler (trade)
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber (trade)
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin (trade)
No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life by Dan Millman (trade)
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche (edited by Walter Kaufmann) (trade)
One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism by William Greider (hardcover)
Origami for Christmas by Chiyo Araki
The Origami Handbook by Rick Beech (hardcover)
Origami to Astonish and Amuse by Jeremy Shafer (trade)
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1995 edition) (trade)
The Perfectionist Predicament: How to Stop Driving Yourself and Others Crazy by Miriam Elliott, Ph.D., and Susan Meltsner, M.S.W.
The Practical Dreamer's Handbook: Finding the Time, Money, and Energy to Live the Life You Want to Live by Paul and Sarah Edwards (trade)
The Procrastination Workbook by William Knaus, Ed.D. (trade)
The Procrastinator's Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now by Rita Emmett (hardcover)
Rich Dad's Guide to Becoming Rich Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, C.P.A. (trade)
Rich Dad's Prophecy by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, C.P.A. (hardcover)
Rich Dad's Who Took My Money? by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, C.P.A. (trade)
Rules for the New New MLMer by Kim Klaver (hardcover)
The Second City by Sheldon Patinkin (coffee table hardcover w/ 2 audio CDs)
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (advance reader's copy) (trade)
Sit 'n Go Strategy by Collin Moshman (trade)
Stacking the Deck: Secrets of the World's Master Card Architect by Bryan Berg with Thomas O'Donnell (trade)
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp (hardcover)
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore (hardcover)
Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks by Gary Thorp (hardcover)
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (trade)
Tolkien: The Authorized Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (hardcover)
Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber (trade)
Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes (hardcover)
The Unconquerable World by Jonathan Schell (hardcover)
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose (hardcover)
Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins (trade)
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft (trade)
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges (trade)
The Way of a Ship by Derek Lundy (advance reader's copy) (trade)
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman (trade)
Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight by Leah Hager Cohen (hardcover)
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn (trade)