Additions to my holiday reading list

• John Backus's Turing Award Lecture from 1977, Can Programming be Liberated from the Von Neumann Style? (via)
• Science is linguistic as well as numerical (just ask Larry Wall!)
• 10 Habits of Highly Effective Brains

I'm a little disappointed the last didn't explicitly require Chess since Kath gave me an awesome Kasparov Chess set for Christmas :)