Exploring Extreme Programming
Stacking the Deck. Bryan Berg with Thomas O’Donnell. Fireside, 2003. If you’d like to see some amazing card-stacking by a world-class expert, this is the book for you. It’s got lots of great pictures of some amazing structures, and instructions Continue reading Review – Stacking the Deck
Funny Noises for the Connoisseur, by Bart Hopkin with Ray Brunelle and Vincent Nicastro. Experimental Music Inc., 2003. ISBN 0-9727313-1-8. Book and CD. In 60 pages, the authors explore a bunch of ways to make some very odd sounds. There Continue reading Review – Funny Noises for the Connoisseur
MouthSounds: How to whistle, pop, boing, and honk, Fred Newman. Workman Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0761134220. I love books that are a smorgasbord, and this one certainly qualifies. Flip to any page, and you’ll find an interesting sound to make. Great Continue reading Review – MouthSounds
Self-Working Handkerchief Magic, Karl Fulves. Dover Press, 1988. Fulves has a number of collections of simple magic tricks. I enjoy playing with some of them even though I’d never perform them for others. My interest in origami stretches to cloth Continue reading Review – Self-Working Handkerchief Magic
Origami, Hideaki Sakata. GRAPH-SHA LTD., 1984. This is a beginner’s origami book, but it’s the best beginner’s book I’ve seen. It shows six or seven bases, from which about 40 objects are created. Because the book uses color pictures instead Continue reading Review – Origami
The New Origami, Steve Biddle and Megumi Biddle. St. Martin’s Press, 1993. A broad look at an assortment of origami styles. My favorites: the troublewit and the jack-in-the-box. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)