I feel a sin coming on...

New book and magazine finds for those with cash burning a hole in your pocket:

For the language lovers there is A Word A Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English by the person who is known for the AWAD mailing list and Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success by the current Executive Secretary of the American Dialect Society.

A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units just published by OUP will be handy for just about anyone ever confused or lost in the abundant array of units of measurement.

Joe Queenan, quite possibly one of the most ascerbic and funny writers of our time, compiled The Malcontents: The Best Bitter, Cynical, and Satirical Writing in the World which pays tribute to the grumpier literati throughout history.

Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the Twenty-First Century will appeal to bibliophiles who enjoyed the authors previous works including Patience and Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

For the technical, Digital Typography using LaTeX is one of the best books for multi-lingual TeX I've ever seen and would recommend it to beginners and advanced users alike. Ruling the Root : Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace is an interesting and timely read given the currrent problems with ICANN and the recent attacks on the root servers.

The Lunar Men which tells the story of 5 scientists in the 1700s whose discoveries helped bring about the industrial revolution. Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller is an excellent book for any bomb history enthusiast as it details some of the stories of what really when on between the scientists, usually only mentioned in passing in other works, and serves to make them more real instead of mythical figures of scientific discoveries past.

Seed Magazine is a recent Canadian periodical aimed at "Science and Popular Culture". It's like Wired only with less focus on type and layout and more focus on actual content. It has promise and I hope it doesn't go the way of Wired. A very cute and surprisingly good magazine for the dogerati is The Bark with everything from how to lobby for dog parks to doggie poetry to the latest in doggie gadgets.

And, lastly, I Feel A Sin Coming On, a collection of hilarious postcards to amuse your friends or leave on the fridge to scare the babysitter. :)