Because why should e-consumers have all the fun?

Tom's Favorite books (with links over there to the Amazon pages for these books, if you're interested in buying them)

• Best book on globalization: Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works
• Best book on terror networks: Marc Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks
• Best book on Fourth Generation Warfare: Thomas Hammes, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
• Best book on ideology: Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
• Best book on economic development: Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
• Best book on the environment: Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
• Best book on the future: Bjorn Lomborg, editor, Global Crises, Global Solutions

Tom's interests (as posted over there):

Big reader of newspapers and magazines of all sorts, but favorites are New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Washington Post, The Economist and Variety.

Listening? Favorites from youth are Talking Heads, Psychedelic Furs, B-52s and Kraftwerk. Currents are Coldplay, Beck, Radiohead and U2 (actually, they hail from my youth too!).

"Watch" includes Family Guy, Simpsons, Sopranos and Sleeper Cell, plus I'm a big movie watcher, with favorite directors Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Steven Soderberg, Hiyao Miyazaki, Quentin Tarantino and the guy who did "Love Actually."

Hobbies now are all defined by kids, so it's anime, comics, videogames, golf, running, and playgrounds in general. Oh, and anything having to do with Sponge Bob Square Pants (I'm a huge fan of Plankton and his plans to "rule the world").