Rooting a Nook
As you might have noticed, there’s a bit of a price war going on in eReaders. We got a Nook the other day. We chose it over the Kindle because it is more hackable....
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Close the Libraries
Cory Doctorow points out this Fox News article arguing that we should close libraries because they’re a waste of public funds. It’s interesting, because as we pointed out in our post about Cory’s talk...
Hyperlinks & Footnotes
Christina Pikas recently wrote a post about an issue she has with Nicholas Carr’s new book. It hits on exactly what I was trying to say the other day, but it does a much...
Bedside Table
I’ve been meaning to post some book reviews here, but I’ve just been too busy. Therefore, I’m going to post a bunch of quickies together in an attempt to get caught up. These are...
Nicholas Carr Can’t Concentrate
Nicholoas Carr’s recent book The Shallows (and the article it’s based on in The Atlantic, and a more recent one in The Wall Street Journal) really bugged me. His basic argument is that reading...
Time Flies Like an Arrow
The current issue of Scientific American has an interesting article by Craig Callender. It’s called Is Time an Illusion? (it’s behind a paywall here). The article is about the fact that most of the...
Cory Doctorow Interview
ABC news interviewed Cory Doctorow. You can watch the interview here. I agree with his opinion about the iPad. He also talks about his new book which I have ordered and am looking forward...
Mixed Grill
Mixed grill is an old family expression for leftovers night. Tonight’s post is a very random collection of stuff from the Internet that we found interesting recently. First up, some good poetry from the...
Cory Doctorow Book Signing
Last night we went to a book signing at the Coop. Cory Doctorow read from his next book For the Win. For the Win is about kids in south China taking part in gold...
The Classics Revisited
Jacob Lambert recently had an interesting review of 5 of my favorite books. Caps For Sale Horton Hears a Who! Blueberries For Sal Ferdinand Curious George Flies a Kite What I previously considered whimsical...
