What Books have Influenced Your Life?

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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 AM
NYT BRUTAL BOOK REVIEW FOR BUBBA .. As you can see here .. review

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Books that Changed Your Life?

Books that Changed Your Life? 07/17/2004 01:15 AM

His books are required reading for the
rest of your life

His books are required reading for the
rest of your life 09/15/2004 11:55 AM
The Greatest War Protestor of All Time --Wise, hilarious, and kind words from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. If you don't know who he is, fake it.

Tech-influenced furniture takes off

Tech-influenced furniture takes off 07/08/2004 01:49 AM
USA Today Jul 8 2004 6:42AM GMT

CNN.com - Gadhafi: Iraq war may have
influenced WMD decision - Dec. 22, 2003

CNN.com - Gadhafi: Iraq war may have
influenced WMD decision - Dec. 22, 2003 12/24/2003 03:03 AM

Shares plunge influenced by Chinese
stock market

Shares plunge influenced by Chinese
stock market 06/14/2004 06:46 AM
Maekyung Internet Jun 14 2004 11:14AM GMT

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 PM
this one by Sarah Boxer

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Research and Markets :Forecasts Indicate
Bahrain's Communications Market Will Be
Heavily Influenced By Competitive Market
Dynamics

Research and Markets :Forecasts Indicate
Bahrain's Communications Market Will Be
Heavily Influenced By Competitive Market
Dynamics 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c13648) has announced the addition of Bahrain Communications Projections Report 2005 to their offering. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

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 PM

So 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.

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes 05/14/2004 07:41 PM
Here's a novel use for a First-Person Shooter:

An autism institute apparently is interested in using Half-Life 2's facial animation capabilities to help teach autistic children how to recognize expressions, according to PC Gamer magazine.

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LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories

LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories 07/23/2004 09:58 AM
LifeBio, Inc., the leading online personal history company, believes that everyone has a story to tell and they need to tell it. From August 2 to August 7, the company will conduct free audio interviews, present workshops on why and how to tell life stories, and give away old-fashioned wooden YoYos, traveling through the Midwest. People they meet will pick LifeBio questions from a traveling treasure chest and share memories through audio and written recordings. [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

20 New Half-Life 2 Screenshots @
PlanetHalf-Life

20 New Half-Life 2 Screenshots @
PlanetHalf-Life 08/15/2004 05:34 PM

Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life

Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life 09/25/2004 09:11 AM

Life Imitates Seinfeld Imitating Life

Life Imitates Seinfeld Imitating Life 01/02/2004 04:48 AM
Woman Files $10M Suit Vs. Starbucks .. suing each other

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Second Life Teaches Life Lessons

Second Life Teaches Life Lessons 04/06/2005 04:59 AM
Players use the online game for all kinds of non-game purposes, from counseling abused kids to teaching business students to be entrepreneurs. By Daniel Terdiman.

Two must-have books

Two must-have books 04/19/2005 09:56 AM
While 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.

Yo, books!

Yo, books! 03/30/2005 01:12 AM
Yo, books! Absolute masses of maths, physics, and CS books chez bhargav. Via Madame Martin

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.

Mac 911: One for the books

Mac 911: One for the books 04/15/2005 12:13 PM
Frustrated with iPhoto 5? The fix is in!

Books 2.0.6

Books 2.0.6 04/29/2004 01:33 PM
Personal library management software

Books 2.0.5

Books 2.0.5 04/15/2004 04:57 PM
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Win Books!

Win Books! 08/31/2004 11:37 AM
Internet Works Aug 31 2004 4:10PM GMT

Books We Like

Books We Like 12/17/2004 06:28 PM

This 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

More about php|a books

More about php|a books 12/19/2004 03:37 PM
Since 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 PM
For 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?

Books 2.0.8

Books 2.0.8 06/14/2004 06:04 PM
Personal library management software

When pro-life is anti-life.

When pro-life is anti-life. 02/01/2005 10:00 PM
Officials at Catholic University are allowing Newt Gingrich to speak. Gingrich is a strong proponent of the death penalty, which...

Whole Life vs. Term Life

Whole Life vs. Term Life 05/05/2004 09:38 AM
Buy the kind of insurance that makes the most sense for you.

Campus Life Comes to Second Life

Campus Life Comes to Second Life 09/24/2004 05:15 AM
Wired News Sep 24 2004 9:52AM GMT

Bill and Books

Bill and Books 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

Eighteen States Awarded Grants to Sustain Public Access Computing in Libraries: It's really hard not to like Bill Gates when he gives $6 million to libraries.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced grants to 18 states to help public libraries continue to provide no-cost access to computers and the Internet for the public. The Staying Connected challenge grants, totaling $5.8 million...

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Its Books Are Never Out Of Stock

Its Books Are Never Out Of Stock 06/03/2004 12:40 AM
Audible.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)

Five New Mac Books For The Holidays

Five New Mac Books For The Holidays 12/10/2003 11:36 AM
By Chuck Toporek (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)

On my favourite books...

On my favourite books... 04/12/2005 08:22 AM

Okay. 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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Children's Books

Children's Books 10/29/2003 01:15 AM

Children'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.

Powell's Books Has Wi-Fi

Powell's Books Has Wi-Fi 04/22/2004 10:32 AM
Personal 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....

Books That Matter

Books That Matter 01/07/2004 01:57 PM
It'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 AM

We 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?

'Google' Your Books

'Google' Your Books 11/03/2003 03:14 AM
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Three Books On The iPod

Three Books On The iPod 12/17/2004 06:41 PM

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