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Bill Clinton coming to Cody's Books in
Berkeley
Bill Clinton coming to Cody's Books in
Berkeley
06/17/2004 04:40 PMFormer president Bill Clinton will be at Cody's bookstore in Berkeley
for a book signing on May 29. You have get tickets in advance by
buying a copy of his book, details on Cody's Books website. Clinton
looks better and better as time goes on, and in comparison. As the
bumper sticker says, "When Clinton lied, nobody died, " to which I
would add, "or was tortured."...
The New York Times > Books > Will
Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies
at 87
The New York Times > Books > Will
Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies
at 87
01/05/2005 04:28 PMthis one by Sarah
Boxer
nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/05eisner.html
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The New York Times > Books >
Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a
Presidency,Imitating a Life, in 957
Pages
The New York Times > Books >
Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a
Presidency,Imitating a Life, in 957
Pages
06/20/2004 03:35 AMNYT BRUTAL BOOK REVIEW FOR BUBBA .. As you can see here ..
review
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US Senate kills move to attach energy
bill to Internet tax bill
US Senate kills move to attach energy
bill to Internet tax bill
04/29/2004 02:46 PMPlatts Apr 29 2004 6:07PM GMT
Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books.
Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books.
12/19/2004 03:36 PMSo the big<
/a> news is about Google
and libraries. I don't feel the need to comment on this
right now, as you can find plenty of other places for that. However,
here are a few angles I haven't seen discussed elsewhere in the
library blogosphere.
- Librari
es and the Internet
"More broadly, the Internet can profoundly improve the relationship
between libraries and society. For example, there are two major
libraries in my town -- a college library, and a public library. My
library card works in both places. I used to favor the college
library, because there was open WiFi access there -- which meant,
among other things, that I could use LibraryLookup from my laptop to
find books in the stacks. Recently, though, the college shut down its
open access point. And from an IT administrator's point of view, I can
understand why. Not long after, the public library installed an open
access point. So now it's my favorite spot, and lately I notice other
mobile professionals congregating there too." [Jon Udell's
Weblog
(Click over to read Jon's story about getting locked in
the library, too!)
- "A quick calculation using the figures above suggests an average
scan rate of 3200 volumes per day (assuming 365 days/year for 6 years)
at the University of Michigan site alone." [Tito Sierra on the WEB4
LIB mailing list]
- "An even quicker calculation shows that they will need to
digitize 2.25 books _a_minute_, 24 hours/day, 365 days/year to
digitize 7 million volumes in six years." [Roy Tennant on the WEB4
LIB mailing list]
It's times like this when I wish
Karen Coyle had<
/a> a blog.
"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest."
"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest."
04/16/2004 08:49 AMYo, books!
Yo, books!
03/30/2005 01:12 AM
Yo, books!
Absolute masses of maths, physics, and CS books
chez bhargav.
Via
Madame Martin Mac 911: One for the books
Mac 911: One for the books
04/15/2005 12:13 PMFrustrated with iPhoto 5? The fix is in!
Books Books Books
Books Books Books
09/18/2004 11:22 AM
Question for a gray Saturday.
What is literature for
? Three litblogs --
Conversational Reading,
The
Reading Experience, and
Leonard Bast --
discuss. Curl up and consider.
Books We Like
Books We Like
12/17/2004 06:28 PMThis just in fromn Brad DeGRaf......
This is an invitation/request to help test
and shape a cool new approach to “activist e-commerce”. You’re
on this list if you’re a friend I thought would enjoy it and
contribute something to it. It’s in beta and we need forgiving early
users. (Thanks to those who responded to individual beta-test
requests, and apologies for duplications).
It’s called BOOKS WE
LIKE, initiated by Media Venture Collective
with support from Alternet. Essentially it’s a way for
progressives to “vote with their book purchases”, by aggregating
their Amazon (or other online booksellers) purchases, thereby
maximizing the resulting commissions, and pooling those to fund
progressive independent media.
Every book bought there captures about a dollar that would
otherwise go uncollected. That’s potentially millions per year of
free money!
And it’s not even an extra step, because starting there allows
users to comparison shop among Amazon, Powells, AbeBooks, and more
coming.
Even better, it’s also a “peer-to-peer recommendation system“
that’s a fun way to promote and discover great books. Anyone can
recommend their favorite books, and see what others recommend (and
psycho-analyze them based on that). So users help important books find
their audiences.
It also makes a great way to quickly add an online bookstore to any
site. Just register, recommend, and link to your user home page.
It thus achieves without donations a potentially large source of
funding for important public-interest media efforts. All profits go to
funding independent media enterprises.
My URL is http://www.bookswelike.net/brad . Yours will be the same,
except for switching “brad” for whatever name you register as. It
will link to your book list, and tag new users as coming from you, as
a way to involve you in deciding how to use the funds.
Please help us test and launch this experiment in new strategies
for change. Register and recommend your favorite books, and buy some
for holiday presents. And tell all your book-loving friends.
You’ll get one more of these, when we do a wider launch, then
that will be it. Thanks in advance for whatever you can do to get it
out there.
thx,
Brad
Win Books!
Win Books!
08/31/2004 11:37 AMInternet Works Aug 31 2004 4:10PM GMT
Books 2.0.8
Books 2.0.8
06/14/2004 06:04 PMPersonal library management software
Books 2.0.5
Books 2.0.5
04/15/2004 04:57 PMPersonal library management software
Books 2.0.6
Books 2.0.6
04/29/2004 01:33 PMPersonal library management software
Two must-have books
Two must-have books
04/19/2005 09:56 AMWhile I was at BrainShare a couple of weeks ago, I did come across two
things that you really should consider adding to your arsenal of
tools. It was two new books from Novell Press that belong on your
desk, open and being read, and not in your bookcase.
More about php|a books
More about php|a books
12/19/2004 03:37 PMSince I posted my "undercover" announcement about php|architect
starting to publish books, a few people have written me about whether
the books will be electronic only and whether they will only be
available through php|architect.
The answer is... no, and no. The books will be available both in print
and PDF ...
What books should I buy?
What books should I buy?
03/28/2005 03:46 PMFor my birthday I got some money to buy some books. (When I’m
not programming, I’m reading.)
I have a pretty good idea of what books I want to buy, but I’m
always looking for cool books I don’t know about.
My interests are literary fiction, science fiction, spy/thriller
novels, history, science, languages, art, and animals. (And other
things too, but those are the main ones.)
Are there any books you’ve read lately that you just plain love,
that you’d recommend to me?
On my favourite books...
On my favourite books...
04/12/2005 08:22 AMOkay. I don't normally do these things and please God don't take
this as an opportunity to start sending me more of them, but I'm going
to respond to Lubin Odana's book-reading memetic challenge.
I don't normally do these kinds of things because I don't really think
they're aimed at me. I think they're really good ways to introduce
people to the wider world, to help people get a grasp on your
character and stuff, and that if people haven't figured out what I'm
like by now after five years of slapping this rubbish on the internet,
then they basically never will. Still never mind, here we go...
You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to
be? This is a really tricky one for me. Probably my all-time
favourite book is Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 which I'll
talk about in a bit. But another favourite of mine is a book called
Ready to Catch him Should he Fall by Neil Bartlett which I
think is one of the few books that I've read that managed to capture a
powerful and natural-feeling, balanced idea of a non-hetero-orthodox
gay relationship. I found it incredibly powerful and interesting. More
importantly, I'm much less confident that anyone else would look after
it in a dystopian future than I am about Slaughterhouse 5, and
someone has to stand up for the poofs and it might as well be me.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? God, I
have absolutely no idea. Probably when I was much younger I thought
that Keill Randor from Planet of the Warlord was unbelievably
hot and there was some weird S&M plot in that book too which probably
did a lot to confuse my teenage mind. There are many characters in
books that I've idolised in various ways - Des Esseintes in Huysmans'
Against Nature was probably a core one. And Dionysus in
Euripides' Bacchae. But I think probably I have more crushes on
fictional characters from TV shows, comics and films than I do from
books. This probably suggests that what people look like is important
to me. So I'd talk about Booster Gold from his original comic
book series, Dr John Carter from the first few seasons of E.R., Ricky
Fitts from American
Beauty, Han Solo / Indiana Jones and maybe the Colonel from
Stargate. I'm so shallow that the slightest drop of water would find
no rest in my embrace...
The last book you bought was: Terrifyingly it was Getting
Things Done by Dave Allen. I bought it months ago and have bought
no books since because I've been busy and found it difficult to focus.
I read about half of it. Then got stuck. Stick that in your pipe and
smoke it.
What are you currently reading? On my last count I had
160 open tabs in Safari, I had 30 open tabs in
NetNewsWire, I had 3000 unread posts in my newsreader and I had
27,000 unread e-mails across my work and personal e-mail
accounts. What the crap do you think I'm reading?
Five Books you would take to a desert island:
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers -
A sprawling, indolent and defiantly (arrogantly) colloquial / personal
autobiography that pushes many of my fantasy buttons - being able to
hang out with my brother a lot, being relatively free in the world,
being able to be creative and misbehave, working and living in San
Francisco.
- The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster - or ideally a huge
anthology of all of Paul Auster's books. The thing about these books
for me is that their resemblence to reality seems entirely incidental
to the clean arcing groves of plot and narrative that don't
necessarily convey you through character but which one feels (if one
could move abstractly in a direction orthogonal to the book) would
look so perfect and structural when observed from 'above'.
- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein - honestly because it's
the longest book I've ever read and because it's wide and deep enough
to get lost in for long periods of time. It appeals to the completist
and the geek within me, always looking for consistent continuities and
wanting to be convinced that the world could be something other than
it is.
- Slaugherhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut - a time-travelling
blackly comic war novel. I think that you can deduce much about my
character from this book. Science fiction books and fantasy novels are
read by people ill-adjusted to reality, the same people who write
comic books and aspire towards making future technology that will make
everyone happy. This book has that in it. These people are also kind
of childish, and if confronted by the world directly seem to only be
able to understand it in terms of black humour. This book has that in
it. There's also a desperation and a wit to it as well that I really
respond to. I don't know if this is a particularly happy description
of my personality, but there you go.
- Gravity's Rainbow or V by Thomas Pynchon - because I
haven't completely read either of them, and they're rich and deep and
thrillingly written enough to last a while and continue to resonate
and mean for a long period of time (and because I'll never read them
in the meantime).
I'd also take with me about four hundred dodgy comic books and a
pile of DVDs. But hey. Anyway, I hope that's satisfactory and
interesting enough for you filthy voyeurs out there in realspace. I'm
going to pass the challenge on to some people who almost certainly
won't want to go near it: Dan
Hill because he's my boss and needs to suffer, Stefan Magdalinski because he's a
stroppy bastard and as such I'd enjoy hearing his rants and Matt Jones because he
reads weird shit...
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scrap books
scrap books
07/03/2004 02:10 AM
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images at random you ought to see collected over thirty years
(dedicated to Kirsty Carter) DomainKeys on the Books
DomainKeys on the Books
05/19/2004 12:04 PMYahoo Submits DomainKeys to IETF: Six months after fir
st announcing their plans, Yahoo! has submitted a spec for
"DomainKeys" to the Internet Engineering Task Force for approval as a
standard. Good for them.
DomainKeys is a way of authenticating email senders, using public
and private key pairs and the domain name system, to give
email-handling software better information with which to make spam
filtering decisions.
The idea is that organizations create their own key pair and
publish the public key in their DNS records. Outgoing email, including
the headers, would be signed with the private key, and recipients
would be able to verify the signature by looking up the public
key.
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New books under CC licenses
New books under CC licenses
07/07/2004 11:05 AMThe German Heise-Verlag, a publishing house specializing in books and
magazines on the IT industry, has adopted the CC licensing model. Two
books are currently being offered as free downloads under the CC
licenses. The first book,
Mix, Burn
& RIP (http://www.mixburnrip.de) by Janko Roettgers, looks into
the future of the recording industry. The second book,
Freie Netze:
Geschichte, Politik und Kultur offener WLAN-Netze by Armin
Medosch (http://www.freifunk.net/wiki/FreieNetze), deals with the rise
of free community wifi networks in Europe and elsewhere.
The two books serve as a good example of how the Creative Commons
model is gradually conquering non-English speaking countries. The
German licenses were launched on June 10 and have since been
extensively discussed in a variety of different forums, the most
important of which was an academic workshop at the Wissenschaftskolleg
in Berlin on June 24 (a summary of the workshop’s discussion with
future lines of research will be posted soon).
One for the history books
One for the history books
05/19/2004 01:14 PMScholastic Must Hit the Books
Scholastic Must Hit the Books
07/22/2004 01:13 PMThe company must leverage its growth segment -- educational
publishing.
EBOOKS Are Books Too!!!
EBOOKS Are Books Too!!!
08/27/2004 09:28 PMWebDevInfo Aug 28 2004 0:04AM GMT
Hooks of Books
Hooks of Books
08/29/2004 09:15 PM
A well-linked site to be sure - but I include myself a suckerfish for
Opening Hooks, a site dedicated to presenting readers with the opening
paragraphs or lines of textual fiction. I would have to struggle not
to continue reading on past the cleverer of setups. I love invitations
such as the following:
The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"
by
C.S. Lewis
There was a boy call ...
'Google' Your Books
'Google' Your Books
11/03/2003 03:14 AMTime Nov 3 2003 3:02AM ET
Books for soldiers
Books for soldiers
04/11/2004 07:49 PMBetween this, that, and the other thing, I've been working on a care
package for a local soldier currently in...
Powell's Books Has Wi-Fi
Powell's Books Has Wi-Fi
04/22/2004 10:32 AMPersonal Telco places latest free Wi-Fi node in World Cup Coffee
inside Powell's City of Books store in Portland, Oregon: Powell's City
of Books is, in fact, an entire city block, and the largest single
bookstore in the world. They have outrigger stores nearby, including a
vast technical bookstore. World Cup Coffee has been a big supporter of
Personal Telco's efforts, as well. Nigel Ballard of Personal Telco
notes that This node goes live with experimental support for SIP-based
VoIP (Voice Over IP) wireless phones such the Pulver WisIP and the
Zyxel Prestige 2000W. Powell's pioneered the unique art of shelving
new and used books side by side, and first sold books over the
Internet using telnet in 1994, predating Amazon.com....
Its Books Are Never Out Of Stock
Its Books Are Never Out Of Stock
06/03/2004 12:40 AMAudible.com is poised to make money this year because of the increased
penetration of MP3 players such as the iPod and a recent Audible deal
to sell book downloads at Apple's iTunes Music Store.
By Jefferson Graham, USA Today (via MyAppleMenu)
Three Books On The iPod
Three Books On The iPod
12/17/2004 06:41 PMBooks That Matter
Books That Matter
01/07/2004 01:57 PMIt's the Fast Company Book Club: Join today to see this month's
selection, help choose upcoming selections, and discuss the books with
some of the smartest thinkers in business today.
Books >> Movies?
Books >> Movies?
03/17/2005 03:24 AMWe had a full house last night for an Oscar's party of sorts (TV is
upstairs in a little loft area so people weren't forced to
watch). I was sad because Titanic couldn't win again; it was
such a great film that they really ought to give it Best Picture every
year in perpetuity. I was confused when a neighbor sung the
praises of the movie Rushmore and its genius director, Wes
Anderson.The movie was fun but if there were profound ideas
in it, I'm not sure what they were. Books, on the other
hand, have been much more thought-provoking for me. Is
there any reason to expect that books are a better source of serious
thinking than movies? One possible theory is that people who
have profound thoughts shy away from the committee and group work
characteristic of filmmaking. Even if Joe Director finances a
film himself and has 100 percent authority he will still spend a
tremendous amount of time and effort communicating his ideas to
subordinates, many of whom will misunderstand what he says.
Thoughtful writers, by contrast, tend to be solitary figures who stay
at home in the Connecticut woods (Philip Roth, Edward Tufte).
One of our friends is a truly brilliant and original scientist (i.e.,
more or less average for Cambridge). This tenured professor says
"I don't like to read, write, or teach." What does he
enjoy doing? "I like to think."
Would anyone like to take up my neighbor's position that Rushmore
is as profound as any book?
Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books
Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books
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A Cook’s Books 0.8.6.8
A Cook’s Books 0.8.6.8
06/10/2004 08:46 PMRecipe management software designed to make storing, editing, and
finding recipes a snap.
Five New Mac Books For The Holidays
Five New Mac Books For The Holidays
12/10/2003 11:36 AMBy Chuck Toporek (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)
Techpreneur Books
Techpreneur Books
03/06/2004 01:49 AMTaylor follows-up asking for my top two books on entrepreneurship. My
suggestions are for mostly in high tech entrepreneurs, but they are
both studies in time. Sometimes practically recognizing what stage you
are in a long journey gives perspective. Crossing...
Children's Books
Children's Books
10/29/2003 01:15 AMChildren's Books
Online: The Rosetta Project, Inc
"The Rosetta Project's collections currently contain about 2,000
antique children's books which were published in the 19th and early
20th century. We shall be putting these combined collections on line
as funding permits. Our current goal of putting 2,000 volumes on line
will create an online library of aproximately 65,000 html pages."
Link via Coudal.
Five New Books From O'Reilly
Five New Books From O'Reilly
12/10/2003 10:25 AMGood books. Eat 'em up. Yum.
Good books. Eat 'em up. Yum.
12/08/2003 01:03 PM Rub the lucky Buddha
and..... It dispenses - Darwin's
Origin of Species, Marcus Aurelius'
Meditations, Voltaire's
Candid
e, Loren Eiseley's
The Immense Journey, Huxley's
D
oors of Perception, Lewis Carrol's
Through the Looking Glass , Thomas Paine's
Com
mon Sense, The Age of Reason, Rights of Man, and Crisis #1,
Buckminster Fuller's
Grunch of Giants, Descartes'
Discourse on method..., biographies of
St. Francis and
Joa
n of Arc, Twain's
The Grateful Poodle, and more...
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