CDs
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* Kamelot – Epica
- * Katie Melua – The House
Books
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-(ordered by preference)
+(ordered by preference, no e-books until the DRM issue is gone.)
* John Scalzi: The Ghost Brigades, ISBN-13: 978-0765354068
- * Daniel Kehlmann: Die Vermessung der Welt
* Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott Pilgrim (for example, [this](http://www.amazon.de/Scott-Pilgrim-Boxed-Set-Poster/dp/1934964573/?tag=aflattrcom506-21) 6 Volume Set)
* Christopher Hadnagy: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking. ISBN-13: 978-0470639535
* Jon Loeliger: Versionskontrolle mit Git, O'Reilly Verlag, Köln 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3897219458 (or in English: ISBN-13: 978-0596520120)
* Alexander Pawlak: Die Wissenschaft bei Douglas Adams, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3527504565
* Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Knust: Linux-Treiber entwickeln. ISBN-13: 978-3-89864-696-3
* Anything written by Donald E. Knuth (in English please). For the long term, “The Art of Computer Programming” would be nice to have.
+ * Already got “The Art of Computer Programming”, Volume 1.
+ * John Napier: Hands. Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN-13: 978-0691025476
* Jeffrey Friedl: Mastering Regular Expressions. O'Reilly 1997, ISBN 1-56592-257-3
Hardware
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-* Cool electronic gadgets (ideally, kits for soldering), for example:
- * a [r0ket](http://www.pollin.de/shop/dt/ODE4OTgxOTk-/Bausaetze_Module/Bausaetze/Microcontroller_Experimentierplatine_r0ket.html)
- * Mood Lamps, Blinkenthings, etc.
+ * Currently, nothing in particular.
Other Things I Could Make Use Of
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- * A [Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29) set
+ * A subscription to [LWN](https://lwn.net/subscribe/)