Damn Indigo for having so many good books!!
Picked up "The Art of Interactive Design" by Chris Crawford. What prose for a computer book! Some good quotes within the first 10 pages:
"If you consider interactivity design to be a variation on traditional human factors design, then you should hurl this book away from you with vehement force; its carefree disregard for the eternal verities of your field will only upset you."
"... With the term interactivity yanked around so much as to be half-dead... I'll bet that one day you'll walk into the grocery store and find a box of laundry detergent with a big banner slashing diagonally across its top, saying, 'NEW! IMPROVED! INTERACTIVE!'"
"We tend to think of interactivity as a Boolean property (either you have it or you don't) like virginity."
I also bought this month's issue of metro-pop since it was an illustration special.
Art Now (one of those huge Taschen books) was calling me too but I resisted... for now anyways.
I'm far from being a religious person but I believe that there's probably some sort of universal force that makes this world tick.
But unfortunately, spirituality can be pretty intangible in today's life so I find the iconoclasm of science, art, and religion pretty interesting.
Kevin Kelly is a name that seems to pop up quite often in my life. I've been meaning to read his book Out of Control for a while now (the online version can be found on at kk.org).
But in the meantime, some interesting articles about technology and religion:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/145/31.0.html