Christmas Geek Books
Wired News has a story on the delightful assortment of geeky books available this holiday season. Among the highlights are Spam Kings, and in-depth look at the lives of notorious spammers “Dr. Fatburn, Terri Tickle, Mad Pierre and the Spam King himself — Davis Hawke.” Also up on the plate is Tangent, a hacker thriller about a freelance network security expert named Ash.
Of course, if this isn’t your kind of thing, you can always go with Amazon’s popular gifts in books, and buy your family another Davinci Code
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