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Dustin is a high school student in Boise Idaho. He's passionate about designing websites and is into some more obscure bands. You can see his stats and browse what he browses. Lastly, please look at his photos!

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    My Kindle came on…Wednesday. I just finished the first book I’d been meaning to read - Hackers and Painters by Paul Grahm. It was terrific and I’m quite enjoying the Kindle.

    So, what book should I read next? The books I’m trying to decide between are:

    • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
    • Harry Potter 5 (order of the Phoenix (this is when I stopped reading the series))
    • Freakonomics
    • Coders at Work
    • The Tipping Point
    • Racism Without Racists
    • Outliers; The Story of Success

    I’m open to suggestions as well. So which should it be?

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    But even factoring in their annoying eccentricities, the disobedient attitude of hackers is a net win. I wish its advantages were better understood.
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    Paul Graham, The Word “Hacker” (via heather-rivers)
    Heather, I love Paul Grahm! More of this please! I love chapter one “Why Nerds Are Unpopular” from his book Hackers and Painters.
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    These are photos from my Flickr Photostream, I hope you love 'em. They're here to stay.

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    Realizing this has real implications for software design. It means that a programming language should, above all, be malleable. A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you’ve already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. Static typing would be a fine idea if people actually did write programs the way they taught me to in college. But that’s not how any of the hackers I know write programs. We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.
    - An excerpt from Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham.
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    Massimo Vignelli has published an amazing 96 page book on better understanding typography in graphic design, according to him. The book gives specific details on Vignelli’s methodology and approach as well as how he decides on paper sizes, typefaces and other tangibles. There is also a nice section of grids.

    I haven’t had the opportunity to read this, but at first glance of the free pdf is really nice looking.

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