While I'm at it, I'm also hosting the dynamic languages whitepaper. I may use this site as a 'staging area' for further updates to the paper, as I've already received quite a few comments about it that I want to incorporate.

Another good book in the Noun category. This one has a chapter per color, recounting various social, historical, artistic and chemical facts about each of the ingredients for the various colors covered (Ocher, Black and Brown, White, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet). You learn about red:

This is cute. (Play the video with the sound on) (stolen from Loic's blog