Ars Technica: New Orphaned Works Act would limit copyright liability: Huge, important story from last week and NO MENTIONS on the New York Times or any other major news outlet. Shameful. Anyway basically there are now House and Senate bills that would limit your exposure to litigation if you make a good-faith effort to determine […]
Category Archives: books
Grand Mall
January 28, 2008 – 1:54 pm
So I’ve been living with my iPhone for about a week and it’s great, best thing ever. The most valuable information is about how to accomplish your goals, and so far I’ve figured out a store’s new location and checked a recipe while in a supermarket, those kinds of things. Very difficult to do with […]
Two links
January 25, 2008 – 5:55 am
Booksthatmakeyoudumb figured out the correlation between the ten most popular books at colleges as listed on Facebook and the average SAT scores for students at those colleges, and the result: people reading Atlas Shrugged aren’t as good at taking standardized tests as people reading Lolita. Which might not be that damning, when you think about […]
Back, sorry
December 14, 2007 – 11:16 pm
Luis: I still can’t believe it! Holy shit congrats again.
SimpleDB is built on Erlang!
Does anybody know of anything awesome in Scranton? No The Office jokes, please.
Prodigy of Mobb Deep’s My World Is Empty Without You is amazing. He claims his forefathers built pyramids on Mars - I missed you! H.N.I.C. 2 = most anticipated new […]
The big tech story today is the Amazon Kindle reveal in Newsweek
November 18, 2007 – 2:25 pm
Here. The Kindle, if you’re not familiar, is Amazon’s eink book reader. Bits of information about the device have leaked out since it was first spotted on the FCC’s website last September, but now Steven Levy has the whole story. In brief:
$399, shipping this week. Very expensive, the price of an iPhone, which seems like […]
Dialogue in examples from Thomas Metzinger’s Being No One that will probably never be spoken aloud in earnest
July 10, 2007 – 6:51 pm
On the existence of first-person data ((”The epistemological problem regarding phenomenological, first-person approaches of ‘data generation’ is that if inconsistencies in two individual ‘data sets’ should appear, there is no way to settle the conflict.” p. 591)): “This conscious experience of jealousy shows me how much I love my husband!” “No, this emotional state is […]
From The Possibility Of An Island
July 2, 2007 – 9:56 am
Youth, beauty, strength: the criteria for physical love are exactly the same as those of Nazism.
McSweeney’s just suffered a disaster
June 12, 2007 – 11:23 am
It looks like their distributer went out of business and took $130k of McSwy money with them on the way down, so now might be a good time to buy some discounted backlist titles. I can personally vouch for The Pharmacist’s Mate and Against The World, Against Life: HP Lovecraft, both of which I really […]
I’m reading a fantastic special-interest book
March 9, 2007 – 12:55 pm
Founders At Work - Stories of Startups’ Early Days, by Jessica Livingston. The format is brilliant - long interviews with the founders of 28 well-known tech companies. It’s sort of like Faber & Faber’s Director On Director (Kubrick On Kubrick, ex) film series only for tech startup nerds. So many important people are interviewed […]
Mark Haddon’s A Spot Of Bother
January 21, 2007 – 12:08 pm
From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time, if the name sounds familiar. I liked it, but it’s a romantic comedy centered around a wedding. Never have I read such a good-natured novel. I found it impossible to dislike any of the characters. They’re all people who, if they asked […]