Infoglut 1999

What I read, saw, listened to or did this year ...

Read ...

  • In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  • Harms Way - Colin Greenland
  • Amnesiascope - Steve Erickson
  • Days Between Stations - Steve Erickson
  • The Devouring Fungus -Karla Jennings
  • The Psychology of Everyday Things - Donald A Norman
  • Science: Good, Bad & Bogus - Martin Gardner
  • Death March - Ed Yourdon
  • Dinosaurs, Diamonds and Things From Outer Space - David Brez Carlisle
  • Extinction - Steven M. Stanley
  • Ghosts - Paul Auster
  • Prisoner's Dilemma - William Poundstone
  • The Psychology of Computer Programming - Gerald M Weinberg
  • The New York trilogy - Paul Auster
  • Imagined Worlds - Freeman Dyson
  • An Intimate History of Humanity - Theodore Zeldin
  • Software Creativity - Robert L Glass
  • Writing Solid Code - Steve Maguire
  • Debugging the Development Process - Steve Maguire
  • The Cult of Information - Theodore Roszak
  • Crop Circles of Wessex - Theodore Roszak
  • The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries - Lionel & Patricia Fanthorpe
  • Borderlands - Mike Dash
  • Unconventional Wisdom - Mike Dash
  • Holy Fire - Bruce Sterling
  • The Memory Cathedral - Jack Dann
  • Our Dumb Century - The Onion
  • 253 - Geoff Ryman
  • A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
  • America - Joe Queenan
  • The Unkindest Cut - Joes Queenan
  • The 50 Worst Movies of All Time - Harry & Michael Medved
  • The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger
  • Nomansland - DG Compton
  • In the Wild - Jon Krakauer
  • The Big Knockover - Dashiell Hammett
  • The Second Nature of Things - Will Curtis
  • The Ultimate - William Poundstone
  • All There is to Know -Alexander Coleman & Charles Simmons (ed.)
  • Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
  • Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson
  • A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
  • The Quest for Room Service - Mark Lawson

Saw ...

  • Star Trek: Insurrection
  • Small Soldiers
  • People On Sunday
  • Doberman
  • (pi)
  • Henry Fool
  • The Mask of Zorro
  • Your Friends and Neighbours
  • Shakespeare in Love
  • The Great Waldo Pepper
  • Lock, Stock &Two Smoking Barrels
  • Face/Off
  • Broken Arrow
  • Mysterious Island
  • Waynes World
  • Waynes World 2
  • Plunkett and Macleane
  • Grosse Pointe Blanke
  • El Mariachi
  • Rapa-Nui
  • Merlin
  • Leon
  • A Simple Plan
  • The Corrupter
  • eXistenZ
  • Streetfighter
  • Deep Blue Sea
  • 6th Sense
  • Heat
  • Naked Lunch
  • The Matrix
  • Austin Powers 2
  • Anna and the King
  • Hotch-Potch

Heard ...

  • The Magazine - Rickie Lee Jones
  • Parallel Dreams - Loreena McKennit
  • Coming Up Close - The Best of - 'TilTuesday
  • A Passage In Time - Dead Can Dance
  • The Mirror Pool - Lisa Gerrard
  • Deep Roots/Future Vibes: Wicklow Spring 1999
  • Welcome to Orientales Sensations, Volume 3
  • The Rough Guide to Cajun and Zydeco
  • Celebrity Skin - Hole
  • The Week Never Starts Around Here - Arab Strap
  • Strange Cargo - Henry Orbit
  • Obey The Time - The Durutti Column
  • Unplugged - 10,000 Maniacs
  • Geddia - Natacha Atlas
  • Spleen and Ideal - Dead Can Dance
  • Ancient Heart - Tanita Tikaram

Went to ...

  • "Puss In Boots" (Theatre Royal, Windsor)
  • Boum! (South Hill Arts Centre, Bracknell)
  • Natacha Atlas & The Dhol Foundation (Improv Theatre, London)
  • Natacha Atlas & Multi (Shepherds Bush, London)
  • "Rent"
  • "An Inspector Calls"
  • WOMAD 99