A lot of the references posted here are stuff you have to go out and buy. I thought I'd post some for the cheapskates and poor starving students and (under|un)employed in the Monastery like me.

• User Interface Design For Programmers by Joel Spolsky
• The Jargon Lexicon
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
• The Lexical FreeNet Connected Thesaurus
• Ethnologue: Languages of the World

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