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FAVORITE LINKS AND BOOKS
Information Architecture and Visual Information Design
XPLANE xblog (The Visual Thinking Weblog)
Software Design Smorgasbord - Visualization Page
OLIVE - The Online Library of Information Visualization Environments
The Argus Center for Information Architecture
The Home Page of Jesse James Garrett
The Visual Thesaurus
UCSC Perceptual Science Laboratory
Internet News, Analysis and Information
The Standard
Red Herring
Internet.com
ASP Resources and Tutorials
The Home Page of EasyASP
(Excellent ASP/HTML freeware!)
4 Guys From Rolla
Just for Fun
Russian Constructivist Poster Art
(I love this stuff! Some is kitsch, some is art. You be the judge.)
MAPP - Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential
(Take a free test and find your inner self. Well, at least find your aptitudes. Take it.)
Spaceweather.com
(All space weather, all the time.)
I always save the best for last...
Planet Ben!
The home pages of my son Ben, who just happens to be
the finest kid in the world.
(Currently undergoing renovation, so pardon the mess.)
Books of Interest
"How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site"
by Lincoln D. Stein
1997 Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
ISBN # 0-201-63462-7 $39.95 Paperback
If you were to be stranded on a desert island,
and could take only one book on web design/construction
with you, then this is the one.
Visit the author's home at http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/~lstein
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
"Envisioning Information"
"Visual Explanations - Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative"
by Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press, Post Office Box 430, Cheshire, Connecticut, 06410
Buy all three today, and take them with you to that desert island!
Tufte is the master of visual information design.
"Art and Visual Perception - A Psychology of the Creative Eye"
by Rudolf Arnheim
1954 1974 University of California Press
ISBN # 0-520-02613-6 Paper
This book is a classic in the fields of creative visual perception and aesthetics.
"An excellent introduction to the psychology of perception", to quote one reviewer.
"Visual Thinking"
by Rudolf Arnheim
1969 University of California Press
ISBN # 0-520-01871-0 Paper
"All thinking is basically perceptual in nature - and the ancient dichotomy between seeing
and thinking, between perceiving and reasoning, is false and misleading."
So says Rudolf, and who am I to disagree?
"The Fire Within the Eye - A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light"
by David Park
1997 Princeton University Press
ISBN # 0-691-04332-9 Paper
A beautifully and thoughtfully written volume on the nature of light, and of our attempts
throughout history to understand it.
"A History of the Mind - Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness"
by Nicholas Humphrey
1992 Springer-Verlag, New York
ISBN # 0-387-98719-3 Paper
"How does the water of the brain yield the wine of conscious experience? What is the
link between bodily activity and our inner feeling of what it's like to be ourselves?"
"Disciplined Creativity for Engineers"
by Robert L. Bailey
1978 Ann Arbor Science
ISBN # 0-250-40615-2 Paper
An unusual and profoundly interesting book written for the engineering professions,
but of great value to anyone interested in creative problem solving.
"The Man Who Tasted Shapes"
by Richard E. Cytowic, M.D.
1993 Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam Books
ISBN # 0-87477-738-0 Hardcover
"A bizarre medical mystery offers revolutionary insights into emotions,
reasoning, and consciousness", to quote from the book's subtitle.
A fascinating investigation of synesthesia and consciousness.
Anyone interested in additional books and references on these
topics, please email me and I'll send you a few thousand more!