Category Archives: books
What if Amazon ruled publishing,
The Atlantic asks. Functionally, I think they’d publish almost everything that meets a minimum set of formatting guidelines. The tiers would go like this, I think: The Morlocks Your cousin has a book of poetry, a guy whose blog you … Continue reading
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Men, Women & Children by Chad Kultgen
So I read this book and had a conflicted reaction to it, but when I googled Chad Kultgen I realized something: years ago my agent had given me a draft copy of his first novel, The Average American Male. My … Continue reading
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Recent bookmarks and purchases
Den Brooks @ Dribble: Captivating “corners” 3d series. Project Euler: Have fun learning to code by cracking math problems, brought to my attention by this Atlantic article. Seth’s Palookaville 20: Issue 20 of Seth’s long-running comic includes part four of … Continue reading
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I don’t know whaaaaat’s wrong with me
but I saw the cover of Paul Allen’s book, which I though was so funny: and spent fifteen minutes on this: Yes, pretty much all I think about is pork, kitties, and Wu-Tang. Maybe they can work on a beard … Continue reading
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My Google Chat with Tao Lin
Tao Lin is the author of at least two wonderful books (2/2 for the ones I’ve read), Eeeee Eee Eeee and his most recent, Shoplifting From American Apparel, which you should go buy right now; it’s one of my favorite … Continue reading
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All – night – long
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 … Continue reading
Grand Mall
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 … Continue reading
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Two links
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 … Continue reading
Back, sorry
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. … Continue reading
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The big tech story today is the Amazon Kindle reveal in Newsweek
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. … Continue reading
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