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December 2007

• 31st • fractals • scans of my 1980s Acorn User articles
• 29th • SF film • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• 26th • detective • Stephanie Barron • Jane and the Ghosts of Netley
• 24th • SF • J. D. Robb et al • Dead of Night
• 23rd • biology/evolution • Matt Ridley • Genome
• 22nd • SF film • The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
• 10th • SF • Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty • The Long Way Home
• 7th • SF • Claude at Harfleur • Marjorie Phillips news
• 6th • NSC • full proceedings: Unconventional Computing 2007
• 5th • NSC/biology • full paper: "Integrative Hybrid Modelling of Plant Shoot Branching "
• 3rd • biology/evolution • Matt Ridley • The Red Queen

November 2007

• 26th • maths • Ian Stewart • Life's Other Secret
• 25th • fiction • Donna Andrews • Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon
• 17th • maths • Ian Stewart • Nature's Numbers
• 11th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Audacious
• 5th • SF • Diane Duane • Empire's End
• 4th • SF TV • 4400, season 1
• 4th • SF • Charles Stross • The Clan Corporate
• 1st • Z • full paper: "Frameworks based on templates for rigorous model-driven development"

October 2007

• 23rd • computing • Seth Lloyd • Programming the Universe
• 18th • NSC • Michael O'Neill, Conor Ryan • Grammatical Evolution
• 15th • programming • Kent Beck • Test-Driven Development
• 14th • SF • Diana Pharaoh Francis • Path of Blood
• 13th • SF film • Elektra
• 13th • SF • Diana Pharaoh Francis • Path of Honor
• 13th • NSC • abstract: "Searching for Quantum Programs and Quantum Protocols: a review"
• 7th • humour • Ian Vince, Dan Kieran • The Myway Code
• 6th • psychology • Eric Abrahamson, David H. Freedman • A Perfect Mess
• 4th • SF • J. D. Robb • Innocent in Death
• 1st • psychology • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Beyond Boredom and Anxiety

September 2007

• 29th • SF • Cory Doctorow • Overclocked
• 29th • puns • Alan Lewis • Pundemoniam!
• 26th • SF • Charles Stross • The Jennifer Morgue
• 25th • SF • Dawn Cook • Princess at Sea
• 7th • maths/computing • Gregory J. Chaitin • Meta Math!
• 2nd • SF • Dawn Cook • The Decoy Princess

August 2007

• 29th • SF • Charles Stross • The Hidden Family
• 26th • SF • Diana Pharaoh Francis • Path of Fate
• 25th • detective • Kathy Reichs • Deja Dead
• 18th • SF • Charles Stross • The Family Trade
• 18th • computing • Desert Island column
• 11th • SF film • Thunderbirds
• 5th • SF • Moira J. Moore • The Hero Strikes Back
• 5th • Z • full paper: "A Formal Template Language enabling Metaproof"
• 5th • Z • full chapter: "UML + Z: Augmenting UML with Z"
• 4th • SF • Moira J. Moore • Resenting the Hero
• 4th • computer industry • Joel Spolsky • Smart and Gets Things Done
• 4th • SF • Martin Harry Greenberg, Russell Davis • If I Were an Evil Overlord

July 2007

• 31st • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • Legacy
• 28th • SF • Jasper Fforde • First Among Sequels
• 21st • SF • Bobby Henderson • The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
• 15th • NSC • full paper: Unentangling nuclear magnetic resonance computing
• 15th • NSC • proceedings: Unconventional Computing 2007
• 8th • NSC • full paper: "Fusing Natural Computational Paradigms for Cryptanalysis"
• 7th • SF film • Daredevil
• 2nd • NSC • full paper: "Human-Competitive Evolution of Quantum Computing Artefacts by Genetic Programming"

June 2007

• 30th • SF TV • Doctor Who, new season 3
• 30th • SF TV • Battlestar Galactica, season 2
• 26th • SF • Diane Duane • Wizards at War
• 21st • patterns • Joshua Kerievsky • Refactoring to Patterns
• 17th • SF • John Varley • Red Lightning
• 16th • SF • Tanya Huff • Smoke and Ashes
• 15th • SF • J. D. Robb et al • Bump in the Night
• 9th • cognition • Douglas Hofstadter • I am a Strange Loop
• 2nd • Z • abstract: "Retrenchment and the Atomicity Pattern"
• 2nd • NSC • abstract: "Neutral Emergence and Coarse Graining"
• 2nd • NSC • abstract: "Folding Protein-Like Structures with Open L-systems"
• 2nd • NSC • abstract: "Evolutionary search applied to reconfigurable analogue control"

May 2007

• 28th • SF film • Star Trek X: Nemesis
• 28th • NSC • full paper: "Engineering Emergence"
• 28th • NSC • abstract: "PLAZZMID: An evolutionary agent-based architecture inspired by bacteria and bees"
• 27th • SF • James H. Schmitz • Eternal Frontier
• 19th • NSC • abstract: "Unentangling nuclear magnetic resonance computing"
• 19th • Z • abstract: "Engineering and theoretical underpinnings of retrenchment"
• 5th • SF • J. D. Robb • Born in Death

April 2007

• 28th • Z • full paper: "Retrenching the Purse: Finite Exception Logs, and Validating the Small"
• 28th • SF • Timothy Zahn • Night Train to Rigel
• 22nd • SF film • Flushed Away
• 21st • NSC • full paper: "Journeys in Non-Classical Computation II"
• 20th • NSC • abstract: "Using Feedback to Regulate Gene Expression in a Developmental Control Architecture"
• 19th • NSC • abstract: "Non-Classical Hypercomputation"
• 14th • biology/philosophy • Evelyn Fox Keller • Making Sense of Life
• 12th • SF • Farah Mendlesohn • Glorifying Terrorism
• 11th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Crystal Dragon
• 3rd • autism/cognition • Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson • Animals in Translation
• 2nd • SF TV • Seven Days, season 1, part II
• 2nd • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Crystal Soldier

March 2007

• 31st • SF • Charles Stross • Glasshouse
• 26th • SF • Jon Courtenay Grimwood • redRobe
• 25th • SF film • Deja Vu
• 24th • SF • Robert Forward • Saturn Rukh
• 20th • SF film • Happy Feet
• 19th • cognition • Marvin Minsky • The Emotion Machine
• 11th • SF • Kim Harrison • For a Few Demons More
• 4th • astronomy • lunar eclipse
• 3rd • SF • S. L. Viehl • Plague of Memory

February 2007

• 25th • SF • Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews, Will Conrad • Serenity: Those Left Behind
• 18th • SF • David Weber • Old Soldiers
• 18th • SF • Lloyd Biggle Jr • The Chronocide Mission
• 17th • SF • Mercedes Lackey • One Good Knight
• 10th • SF • Cory Doctorow • A Place so Foreign and Eight More
• 4th • SF • David Weber • Wind Rider's Oath
• 3rd • SF • Mercedes Lackey • The Fairy Godmother

January 2007

• 27th • SF • J. D. Robb et al • Out of This World
• 20th • SF • Brenda W. Clough • Doors of Death and Life
• 13th • cognition • George Lakoff, Mark Turner • More than Cool Reason
• 10th • SF film • My Super Ex-Girlfriend
• 10th • SF film • Over the Hedge
• 10th • SF film • The Da Vinci Code
• 10th • SF • Brenda W. Clough • How Like a God
• 8th • complexity • Mark Haw • Middle World

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