Pages tagged books:

1000 novels everyone must read | Books | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/1000novels
1000 novels everyone must read: Science Fiction & Fantasy (part one) | Books | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-science-fiction-fantasy-part-one

William Golding: Lord of the Flies (1954)
Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22281
Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books
Don't get me wrong. I know that businesses must be responsible to shareholders. I believe that authors are entitled to payment for their creative labor and that publishers deserve to make money from the value they add to the texts supplied by authors. I admire the wizardry of hardware, software, search engines, digitization, and algorithmic relevance ranking. I acknowledge the importance of copyright, although I think that Congress got it better in 1790 than in 1998.
Interesting article that looks at the future of the book in light of the recent settlement betewen Google and the major publishing houses.
Robert Darnton- an important figure in Book History- is concerned about the future of the information society as major players increasingly hold the greatest sway
What will happen if Google favors profitability over access? Nothing, if I read the terms of the settlement correctly. Only the registry, acting for the copyright holders, has the power to force a change in the subscription prices charged by Google, and there is no reason to expect the registry to object if the prices are too high. Google may choose to be generous in it pricing, and I have reason to hope it may do so; but it could also employ a strategy comparable to the one that proved to be so effective in pushing up the price of scholarly journals: first, entice subscribers with low initial rates, and then, once they are hooked, ratchet up the rates as high as the traffic will bear.
5 Design and Interaction Reference Books you should have available | Tutorial9 - Tutorial Bliss.
http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/5-books-every-designer-needs/
Books to buy/order from library
The author details Web Design and Interaction Design books for beginner to advanced readers.
Neural Networks - A Systematic Introduction
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/rojas/neural/index.html.html#forword
Interesting looking ebook. Give it a look.
Dive into Python 3
http://diveintopython3.org/
"This site is optimized for Lynx just because fuck you. I'm told it also looks nice in graphical browsers." And PapayaWhip.
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Why you can't find a library book in your search engine | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/library-search-engines-books
Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search.
Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search. But thanks to a US cataloguing site, that is far from the case
Yet there is an alternative that few people seem aware of: Worldcat (worldcat.org), which offers web access to the largest repository of bibliographic data in the world - from the 40-year-old Ohio-based non-profit Online Computer Library Center (oclc.org). But Worldcat suffers from the same problem on a larger scale.
DIY: How to write a book - Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/27/diy-how-to-write-a-b.html
How to write a book notes by Steven Johnson
Neural Networks - A Systematic Introduction
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/rojas/neural/index.html.html
Book as PDF on neural networks.
How to Stop Accumulating Books - wikiHow
http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Accumulating-Books
How to Stop Accumulating Books
Why would I stop accumulating books? I just need to trade and donate out some of my overflow that's all! Whats wrong with sagging shelves on every wall and boxes stacked all over the place? WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT? I would recommend AGAINST following most of the suggestions given in this article, other than giving away books no longer wanted. DO NOT put labels on your book spines or shelve different-sized books together (keep same-sized volumes together even if they are unrelated). I will eat your family if you do.
1. Cull your existing collection. Look in the yellow pages of your local phone book under "Books - Used." Sites like Amazon.com and Half.com allow individuals to sell books. break your books up into the following piles, and decide which ones get to stay: Reference books. Books you've already read, that you want to keep. Books you haven't read yet. Set a "read-to-purchase ratio". Make a “syllabus” of books to read. pick out the next 10-14 books you want to read. Make a "to buy" list. If you buy a book, immediately get rid of a book you already have. Use the library: most library systems will lend you books from anywhere in their system. Use the library for downloading ebooks: many libraries offer a service that allows you to download ebooks to your pc. Purchase and collect your books on an e-Book reader (like Kindle Wireless). If you have room for them and you still think "I'm going to read (or re-read) that someday", keep them.
building your library
PhilPapers: Online research in philosophy
http://philpapers.org/
Huge repository of papers in academic philosophy
PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers. We monitor journals in many areas of philosophy, as well as archives and personal pages. We also accept articles directly from users, who can provide links or upload copies. Some features require that you sign in first, but creating an account is easy and free.
An index of current research in philosophy. Also offers forums, discussion groups, and advanced bibliographic tools for philosophers.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age - Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/features/2009/02/the-once-and-future-e-book.ars
A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books.
Main Page - Digital Foundations
http://wiki.digital-foundations.net/index.php?title=Main_Page
Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite integrates the formal principles of the Bauhaus Basic Course into an introduction to digital media production with the Adobe Creative Suite.
Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite (see FLOSS manuals at http://en.flossmanuals.net )
bauhaus et software
Wiki as pedagogy
Introduction to Media Design: "Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite integrates the formal principles of the Bauhaus Basic Course into an introduction to digital media production with the Adobe Creative Suite. Textbooks and software manuals on today’s market do not include art and design history or visual principles. This book synthesizes historical examples and traditional studio foundation exercises into smart, well-paced software exercises. See it for yourself in Chapter 5, where we explore Illustrator's Color Picker through Joseph Albers’ color exercises. Digital media texts about Adobe Creative Suite, whether they are “Bibles”, “For Dummies” or “Classroom in a Books”, focus on tools and production tips. Digital Foundations is the only textbook that teaches visual skills through production tools."
Book Search
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/
Google mobile books
The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age - Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/02/the-once-and-future-e-book.ars
Really nice discussion of the history of the ebook market.
A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books.
JavaScript Rocks! JavaScript Performance, Benchmarking and Tuning Ebook
http://javascriptrocks.com/performance/
Javascript performance book
Gekauft und nicht bereut!
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: More on The 100 Best Archives
http://100bestbiz.com/more-on-the-100-best/
100 business books.
Requested Reading Recommendations — School of Visual Arts — MFA in Interaction Design
http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/blog/entry/requested_reading_recommendations/
wow Gold!
Highly recommended reading list of books on interaction design: http://tinyurl.com/cv8dyj
31 Contemporary & Creative Book Shelves | Home Interiors Zone
http://www.homeinteriorszone.com/interior-decoration/furniture/31-contemporary-creative-book-shelves/
Creative Book Shelves
Here are 31 more creative book shelve designs from the world’s best designers, that will inspire and provide you new and fresh ideas for your home.
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: About Us
http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/
Read ePub ebooks online : Bookworm ePub reader
http://bookworm.oreilly.com/
open source ebook platform
Application
!!!!
Walden, and 99 other Free Online Books Every Student of Humanity Should Read | Online Education at UniversitiesAndColleges.org
http://universitiesandcolleges.org/walden-online/
A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Readers
http://alistapart.com/articles/indefenseofreaders
Some very very good insights here. Particularly about the 1st para and WHY it needs to be different.
"Despite the ubiquity of reading on the web, readers remain a neglected audience. Much of our talk about web design revolves around a sense of movement: users are thought to be finding, searching, skimming, looking."
The best readers are obstinate. They possess a nearly inexhaustible persistence that drives them to read, regardless of the circumstances they find themselves in
Some interesting web design thoughts - does bloggernacle design lead us to skim instead of read?
Google Book Downloader - Home
http://www.codeplex.com/GoogleBookDownloader
"small utility which allows you to save book as PDF from google to your local filesystem"
google book taki kitapları indirme programı.
Google Book Downloader is small utility which allows you to save book as PDF from google to your local filesystem.
Trocando Livros - Site de troca de livros
http://www.trocandolivros.com.br/
Trocando Livros - Site de troca de livros
Site para troca de livros usados.
site nacional de troca de livros. Parecido com o estrangeiro BookMooch.
Programming Textbooks
http://t3x.org/books/
Association of Research Libraries :: Google Book Search Library Project
http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/google/index.shtml
Google Book Search Library Project
This is an article on Google Book Search by the Association of Research Libraries
How to Make and Install Hungarian Shelves
http://www.instructables.com/id/Hungarian-Shelves/
First time I saw these shelves was in Budapest, at a friends apartment. I was told they had been designed by a physicist. That's why I think they are safe. The ones in the photos have been up for more than a year now.
A First Course in Linear Algebra (A Free Textbook)
http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html
Self-Education Resource List
http://selfmadescholar.com/b/self-education-resource-list/
The internet is an invaluable resource to self-educated learners. Below is a list of some of the most helpful sites out there including opencourseware materials, free libraries, learning communities, educational tools, and more.
Foxit eSlick
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/
Be eSlick. Take your documents on the go. View all your PDF files as well as convert any printable document to PDF which can be viewed on the eSlick. Foxits eSlick comes with free software: Foxit Reader Pro Pack and Foxit PDF Creator. Pre-order with just a $50 deposit and lock in the introductory price of $259.99 plus shipping and applicable taxes Note: The first set of eSlicks have sold out and the next set will ship out around middle to late April. If you have preordered before February, your eSlick will ship around late February or early March. Please click here to check out countries that Foxit eSlick will be shipped to. Foxit may ship to other countries later. We will release shipping costs soon.
Be eSlick. Take your documents on the go. View all your PDF files as well as convert any printable document to PDF which can be viewed on the eSlick. Foxits eSlick comes with free software: Foxit Reader Pro Pack and Foxit PDF Creator. Pre-order with just a $50 deposit and lock in the introductory price of $259.99 plus shipping and applicable taxes Note: The first set of eSlicks have sold out and the next set will ship out around middle to late April. If you have preordered before February, your eSlick will ship around late February or early March. Please click here to check out countries that Foxit eSlick will be shipped to. Foxit may ship to other countries later. We will release shipping costs soon. Pre-Order Privacy | ©2009 Foxit Software Company,LLC.All Rights Reserved.
The Art of M. S. Corley: Harry Potter Redesign
http://mscorley.blogspot.com/2009/02/harry-potter-redesign.html
A redesign of the Harry Potter books in a classic Penguin Book style
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ollym/sets/72157612646893506/
A new approach for the Harry Potter book's cover. Cool!Vector. Clean.
redesign of book covers for the rowling series, reimagined as 70's penguin PBs.
Index of /transputer/finengineer
http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/finengineer/
Crazy collection of financial PDF's
Huge list of articles on finance-related topics
6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book
http://mashable.com/2009/03/01/publish-book/
how to make your own book
Here are six great sites that will help you publish your work, guaranteeing you a published book that can be sold via different outlets, such as Amazon.
6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book
Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School | Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey | MIT OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/geb/geb/index.htm
What do one mathematician, one artist, and one musician all have in common? Are you interested in zen Buddhism, math, fractals, logic, paradoxes, infinities, art, language, computer science, physics, music, intelligence, consciousness and unified theories? Get ready to chase me down a rabbit hole into Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach. Lectures will be a place for crazy ideas to bounce around as we try to pace our way through this enlightening tome. You will be responsible for most of the reading as lectures will consist primarily of motivating the material and encouraging discussion. I advise everyone seriously interested to buy the book, grab on and get ready for a mind-expanding voyage into higher dimensions of recursive thinking.
InfoQ: InfoQ Editors' Recommended Reading List
http://www.infoq.com/articles/recommended_reading_list
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning: Contents
http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/
Carl Edward Rasmussen and Christopher K. I. Williams MIT Press, 2006. ISBN-10 0-262-18253-X, ISBN-13 978-0-262-18253-9. This book is © Copyright 2006 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The MIT Press have kindly agreed to allow us to make the book available on the web. The web version of the book corresponds to the 2nd printing. You can buy the book for a list price of 36.00 US$ or 23.95 UK£. The whole book as a single pdf file.
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
Old Book Art
http://www.oldbookart.com/
massive theme based on GridFocus by 5ThirtyOne.com
ilustraciones de libros viejos.
'The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching' - Knowledge@Wharton
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2032
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth learning can be taught." -- Oscar Wilde
Wowbrary - Newest Books, Movies, and Music at your Library
http://wowbrary.org/
Free Alerts about Your Library's Newest Books, Movies & Music!
Free service using RSS or email that issues weekly updates on a nearby library's new acquisitions.
Subscribe via e-mail or RSS to new arrivals at your local library.
A nonprofit service that sends the public free weekly emails and RSS feeds about their local library’s most recent acquisitions.
Book Excerpt: David Allen's Making It All Work a New Look at GTD
http://lifehacker.com/5109653/david-allens-making-it-all-work-a-new-look-at-gtd
All Work a New Look
Author David Allen's follow-up to his best-selling productivity bible Getting Things Done is called Making It All Work. In a series of excerpts published by tech site BNET, Allen discusses the two axes of self-management—control and perspective—and asks you to place yourself in the matrix. (Of course any personal productivity book is nothing without at least one matrix.) Are you a visionary/crazy-maker? Victim/responder? Micromanager/implementer? If things are going well, you've got the right mix of control and perspective, which puts you in the Captain and Commander seat.
Dobbs Code Talk - 10 Papers Every Software Architect Should Read (At Least Twice)
http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=10-Papers-Every-Software-Architect-Should-Read-At-Least-Twice-.html&Itemid=29
10 articoli che ogni architetto software e/o sviluppatore DEVE leggere
Papers on Programming
The Phoenix
http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2009/02/05/barack-obama-is-tired-of-this.aspx
How did I not link to this before?
he reads a book and swears. great
What Obama should really say to his opponents; mp3 clips from his book; impersonations; slang dialogue; Obama's range of intonations and personae
dang, obama cussing!!
In his bestselling autobiography, Dreams From My Father, President Obama introduces us to his high school friend, “Ray,” who, like him, is bi-racial. Who, also like him, is casting about to find his place in the world. But, who, unlike him, has a potty mouth that would make a sailor blush. Best of all? When reading the audiobook version of his bio, Obama does impressions of Ray’s manner of speech. Swear words and all. It’s fucking awesome. And it’s a way of talking we probably won’t be hearing from him now that he’s POTUS.
goodness, this could be fun for new ringtones. (I'm sure everyone in my office is sick of The Avalanches by now.)
Books and Music That Make You Dumb - Digits - WSJ.com
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/02/27/books-and-music-that-make-you-dumb/
A 25-year-old Caltech graduate student has developed a tongue-in-cheek statistical look at taste and intelligence.
WSJ - Digits
Anyone who has ever sought to justify their own musical or literary taste may find some solace in the side project of Virgil Griffith, a 25-year-old Caltech graduate student known for embarrassing numerous corporations with his WikiScanner, the database that tracks the sources of anonymous edits to Wikipedia entries.
Using facebook statistics to find correlation between intellegence and taste.
20 Best Websites To Download Free E-Books, Part II | Freebies
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/20-best-websites-to-download-free-e-books-part-ii/
E-Books
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | No Fear
http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk/publications/education/no-fear
No Fear argues that childhood is being undermined by the growth of risk aversion and its intrusion into every aspect of children’s lives. This restricts children’s play, limits their freedom of movement, corrodes their relationships with adults and constrains their exploration of physical, social and virtual worlds. PDF
No Fear joins the increasingly vigorous debate about the role and nature of childhood in the UK. Over the past 30 years activities that previous generations of children enjoyed without a second thought have been relabelled as troubling or dangerous, and the adults who permit them branded as irresponsible. No Fear argues that childhood is being undermined by the growth of risk aversion and its intrusion into every aspect of children’s lives. This restricts children’s play, limits their freedom of movement, corrodes their relationships with adults and constrains their exploration of physical, social and virtual worlds.
"Over the past 30 years activities that previous generations of children enjoyed without a second thought have been relabelled as troubling or dangerous, and the adults who permit them branded as irresponsible. No Fear argues that childhood is being undermined by the growth of risk aversion and its intrusion into every aspect of children’s lives."
Read Ebooks on Your iPhone - Wired How-To Wiki
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Read_Ebooks_on_Your_iPhone
xkcd - A Webcomic - Kindle
http://xkcd.com/548/
Amazon's Guide to the Galaxy.
Now this is original!
Kurt Vonnegut Motivational Posters | Sloshspot Blog
http://www.sloshspot.com/blog/01-24-2009/Kurt-Vonnegut-Motivational-Posters-107
At once a optimist and a cynic, Vonnegut's love for humanity recognized and embraced each of its shortcomings. With his satirical blend of science fiction and humanism, Vonnegut gifted us with his clever one-liners and pearls of wisdom mixed in with the occasional dirty drawing. Following are a few of the gems he cast along the way, in the only acceptable format for true widom these days, the motivational poster.
Motivational posters with quotes of Kurt Vonnegut
Senghor on the Rocks - Coupe Du Monde
http://www.senghorontherocks.net/part1.html
Interaktiver Google Mahshup Roman
100+ Sites to Download All Sorts of Things
http://www.dailybits.com/100-sites-to-download-all-sorts-of-things/
These days you can find all sorts of things online, from audio books to flash files, from sound effects to CSS templates. Below we compiled a list with over 100 download sites that serve that purpose. We will also try to keep the list updated, so if your favorite download site is not here, let us know about it with a comment. Audio Books Librivox: One of the most popular audio libraries on the web. The LibriVox volunteers record books that are in the public domain and release them for free.
Downloads from 100's of sites
ublish, discover, discuss, and share original writings and document. With 50 million unique page views per month, Scribd is a great place to learn new things.
Suvudu Free Book Library - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games
http://www.suvudu.com/freelibrary/
Welcome to the Suvudu Free Book Library. We know it can be hard to navigate the countless fantasy and science fiction series out there and figure out which ones are right for you. Well, we're here to make those tough decisions a bit easier on you. With the Suvudu Free Book Library, you can read the first book in some of our most acclaimed series absolutely free! We're kicking off the library with five full-length novels for you to sample, but we'll be adding new titles on a regular basis, so be sure to sign up for our newsletter so you're the first to find out what our newest free offerings are! Enough of the intro -- start downloading, and start reading! To receive monthly updates about new books that we are adding to the Suvudu Free Book Library, and other news about our books, sign up for the Del Rey Internet Newsletter.
another ebook sc fi site
Suvudu Free Book Library - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games http://www.suvudu.com/freelibrary/ Suvudu ebooks ebook scifi library sf
iLibrarian » 10 Websites for Book Lovers
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2009/10-websites-for-book-lovers/
Popular Topics - The Tax Law Offices of Fred Daily
http://www.taxattorneydaily.com/topics/
Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace
http://www.kottke.org/09/03/growing-sentences-with-david-foster-wallace
how to write a book
0. Begin with an idea, a string of ideas, 1. Use them in a compound sentence, 2. Add rhythm with a dependent clause....
Now I know how @vaguery gets his posts to scroll! ;-)
30 Useful Web Design Books for 2009 | Webdesigner Depot
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/30-useful-web-design-books-for-2009/
To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must seek out self education sources as often as possible, such as books, or you'll be left
Books That Have Shaped How I Think | O'Reilly Media
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/articles/favebooks_0705.html
Learn prolog now
http://www.learnprolognow.org/
Life and Letters: The Unfinished: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max?currentPage=all
glass palisades at desperate speeds, soaring north, sounding a bell-clear and nearly maternal al
Amazing bio piece on David Foster Wallace; actually chokes me up while reading; totally essential - must blog about this
David Foster Wallace
Myebook - get it out there!
http://www.myebook.com/index.php
Free Mathematics Books
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/mathematics.php
Free Mathematics Books - list of freely available math textbooks, monographs, lecture notes, and other documents.
Look at Intro to R Book
Combin
E-Books Directory - Categorized Books, Short Reviews, Free Downloads
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory and download anything you need.
Amazanian - Search Amazon for Prime eligible items - Amazon Prime only search engine
http://www.amazanian.com/
Nifty use of the Amazon API to create an alternative search interface. I like.
Search Amazon for Prime eligible items - Amazon Prime only search engine - Amazon. Prime. Results. - Quickly find Amazon.com products eligible for free shipping
I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Parrot Secrets - Cringely on technology
http://www.cringely.com/2009/03/parrot-secrets/
Weil Papageien teure Geheimnisse haben.
Life and Letters: The Unfinished: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max
David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass “Infinite Jest.”
Article on the writer David Foster Wallace who committed suicide on Sep 12th 2008. He battled with depression.
What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant
"Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being"-dfw, dfw's writing after infinite jest, struggle with depression, portrait of older dfw, some biography
Apple - Movie Trailers - Where the Wild Things Are
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/wherethewildthingsare/
I'm excited about this movie!
MOVIE TRALIER!!!!!
Yes, please.
Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves
http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/
vintage children's book blog
How to Design Programs, Second Edition
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/index.html
Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.
great book
FaceOut Books
http://www.faceoutbooks.com/
nice books binding
UPDATED EVERY MONDAY. This venue has been created to appreciate the practice of book cover design. This is not a blog to rip apart what we dislike—everyone has a different aesthetic. This is a blog about the challenges and outcomes
blog about book covers
book design
Writing for a living: a joy or a chore?: nine authors give their views | Books | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/03/authors-on-writing
Writing is good for you!
Tectonic » 10 open source books worth downloading
http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4491
Almost Perfect by W. E. Peterson The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect Corporation
http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml
The book, Almost Perfect, was originally published by Prima Publishing in 1994. It is the story of the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation from my point of view.
The book, Almost Perfect, was originally published by Prima Publishing in 1994. It is the story of the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation from my point of view. The book sold a little less than 10,000 copies and is now out of print. The copy published here is almost identical to my original manuscript and does not contain Prima's edits. In this version, I have corrected two factual errors, fixed five typos, deleted a few pages at the end, and added a final paragraph. I welcome links to this site, however, I ask that you not reproduce this manuscript other than for your personal reading without written permission. If you prefer reading a PDF version, click here. I hope you enjoy the book. Thanks for stopping by.
What Watchmen Did Next: 9 Comics To Follow Watchmen
http://io9.com/5166156/9-comics-to-follow-watchmen
Nolo: Law Books, Legal Forms and Legal Software
http://www.nolopress.com/
The Best of Instructables Volume 1 (The Online Edition)
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Best-of-Instructables-Volume-1/
The Best of Instructables Volume 1 Instructables is a place where artists, bicyclists, crafters, engineers, modders, co...
PDF Books Search Engine
http://search-pdf-books.com/
Search free PDF books
PDF搜索
Found this at home. Don't know how to fully use it, but.
無料で読めるLinux本ベスト20 - YAMDAS現更新履歴
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yomoyomo/20090409/freelonuxbooks
Computer Science - Free E-Books
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=24
David MacKay: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air: Download
http://www.withouthotair.com/download.html
see review in boing boing
free book: describes sustainable energy solutions
50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - ChronicleReview.com
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i32/32b01501.htm
criticism of 'The Element of Style'
Eloquent rant against Strunk & White.
'The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it.'
HA! On the other hand I would strongly recommend reading a book whose style is intentionally derived from this one: 'The Elements of Programming Style' by Kernighan and Plauger. Yes, *that* B.Kernighan.
Amazon Rank
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/amazonrank/
Amazonfail -- their little 'glitch'...
amazon rank Function: verb Inflected Form(s): amazon ranked 1. To censor and exclude on the basis of adult content in literature (except for Playboy, Penthouse, dogfighting and graphic novels depicting incest orgies). 2. To make changes based on inconsistent applications of standards, logic and common sense.
"amazon rank Function: verb Inflected Form(s): amazon ranked 1. To censor and exclude on the basis of adult content in literature (except for Playboy, Penthouse, dogfighting and graphic novels depicting incest orgies). 2. To make changes based on inconsistent applications of standards, logic and common sense. ..."
Unresolvable
tehdely: On Amazon Failure, Meta-Trolls, and Bantown
http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html
cool story about web community and instant media gone horribly wrong; see also griefers
"It's obvious Amazon has some sort of automatic mechanism that marks a book as "adult" after too many people have complained about it. It's also obvious that there aren't too many people using this feature, as indicated by the easy availability (& search ranking) of pornography & sex toys & other seemingly "objectionable" materials, otherwise almost all of those items would have been flagged by this point. So somebody is going around & very deliberately flagging only LGBT(QQI)/feminist/survivor content on Amazon until it is unranked & becomes much more difficult to find. To the outside world, this looks like deliberate censorship on the part of Amazon, since Amazon operates the web application in question. To me, this looks like one of two things: 1. Some "Family"-type organization astroturfing Amazon in an attempt to rid the world of EVIL PRO-HOMOSEXUAL FILTH!! 2. Bantown ... a tactic for inciting meta-lulz on multiple levels through the alignment of third-parties against each other"
Amazonfail theory about it being a "glitch." I call bullshit, though.
Bantown is a tactic for inciting meta-lulz on multiple levels through the alignment of third-parties against each other. Bantown is like the plot of most James Bond movies, wherein some nefarious evildoer brings the US and the Soviets close to war. Bantown is a trolling technique of the highest order, which usually pits communities against each other, or communities against companies, or organizations against companies, or companies against organizations
Lifehacker - Michael Ruhlman on Freeing Yourself from Recipes - Michael Ruhlman
http://lifehacker.com/5209943/michael-ruhlman-on-freeing-yourself-from-recipes
Home › The Personal Web Design Degree
http://www.personaldesigndegree.com/
Great strides have been made towards teaching web development, but what about design? The personal web design degree is an open edu
Great strides have been made towards teaching web development, but what about design? The personal web design degree is an open education curriculum that teaches both beginning web designers and seasoned print designers design within the context of the web.
Personal Web Design Degree
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air: the Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy - Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/09/sustainable-energy-w.html
I just finished reading this book. It's one of the best analysis of energy use I was given to read. Hurray for raw number with cited sources!
Using a charming, educational style that teaches how to think about this kind of number, how to estimate with it, and what it means, MacKay explains these concepts beautifully, with accompanying charts that make them vivid and clear, and with exhaustive endnotes that are as interesting as the text they refer to (probably the best use of end-notes I've encountered in technical writing -- they act like hyperlinks, giving good background on the subjects that the reader wants to find out more about while allowing the main text to move forward without getting bogged down by details). sensible personal advice for things you can do to reduce your energy consumption -- especially identifying those few badly designed devices in your home whose idle power-draw really is punitive and replacing them (one Ikea lamp he cites draws nearly as much switched off as running, because of a transformer design that was one penny cheaper to manufacture than a more efficient one would have been).
PDF download on page
"This is to energy and climate what Freakonomics is to economics: an accessible, meaty, by-the-numbers look at the physics and practicalities of energy."
9 Apr 09 / cory Doctorow / David JC MacKay's "Sustainable Energy -- Without the Hot Air" may be the best technical book about the environment that I've ever read. In fact, if I have any complaint about this book, it's in how it's presented, with its austere cover and spartan title, I assumed it would be a somewhat dry look at energy, climate, conservation and so on. It's not. This is to energy and climate what Freakonomics is to economics: an accessible, meaty, by-the-numbers look at the physics and practicalities of energy
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123980920727621353.html
Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone
kindle ebook e-book
数图研究
World Digital Library Home
http://www.wdl.org/en/
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
Opened in April 2009
良いプログラマを目指すなら「Java並行処理プログラミング」は今すぐ読むべき - ひげぽん OSとか作っちゃうかMona-
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/higepon/20090326/1238067284
Page d'accueil de la Bibliothèque numérique mondiale
http://www.wdl.org/fr/
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and more. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
DIY High-Speed Book Scanner from Trash and Cheap Cameras
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-from-Trash-and-Cheap-C/
High-speed DIY book scanner
Página Inicial da Biblioteca Digital Mundial
http://www.wdl.org/pt/
Biblioteca digital mundial :: UNESCO
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and more. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
Typographica
http://new.typographica.org/
* Type * Type Reviews * Type Books * Type Commentary
Like just about everybody else, I'm loving it.
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com
http://www.zeldman.com/2009/04/16/taking-your-talent-to-the-web-is-now-a-free-downloadable-book-from-zeldmancom/
Jeffrey Zeldman “Taking Your Talent to the Web” の全文PDFを無料配布。
I wrote this book in 2001 for print designers whose clients want websites, print art directors who’d like to move into full–time web and interaction design, homepage creators who are ready to turn pro, and professionals who seek to deepen their web skills and understanding.
Jeffrey Zeldman'in kitabını indirin
世界数字图书馆主页
http://www.wdl.org/zh/
BookArmy
http://www.bookarmy.com/defaultnew.aspx
"Never read a bad book again"
15 Favorite E-Books for Web Design and Development | TutorialFeed
http://tutorialfeed.blogspot.com/2009/04/15-favorite-e-books-for-web-design-and.html
New Rules for the New Economy
http://www.kk.org/newrules/blog/
This is a blog version of a book of mine first published in 1998. I am re-issuing it (two posts per week) unaltered on its 10th anniversary. Comments welcomed. ... The thesis of New Rules for the New Economy is that we are now living in an economy based on ideas and communication rather than energy and atoms. Further, this "new" economy has distinct laws or rules so it behaves differently than the previous industrial economy. To do well in the new regime, we need to grasp the new dynamics of information. I reduce the emerging principles to 10 guidelines, and suggest a few strategies for businesses based on each principle.
Kevin Kelly - Blog ver of book.
Top 100 Free eBooks for Business Students and Entrepreneurs | Best Online Colleges
http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/top-100-free-ebooks-for-business-students-and-entrepreneurs/
Whether you’re enrolled in a business school degree program or desperate for a review of b-school basics as you start your own company, it’s hard to pass up free study materials. These 100 ebooks on marketing, management, ecommerce, and finance are all free and worth checking out.
Mировая цифровая библиотека Главная страница
http://www.wdl.org/ru/
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and more. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
Get (Almost) Any Book For Free: 100+ (Kosher) Sites Offering Great Literature for Download - Learn-gasm
http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2009/get-almost-any-book-for-free-100-kosher-sites-offering-great-literature-for-download/comment-page-1/
ingilizce romanlar açısından çok zengin bir kaynak. hem de ücretsiz...
e-book list
World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org/
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and more. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
Sammlung digitalisierter historischer Dokumente
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
Das Digitalisierungsprojekt der UNESCO hat Material aus einer Vielzahl renommierter Bibliotheken, Schriftensammlungen und Archiven aus der ganzen Welt versammelt. "Das kollektive Gedächtnis der Menschheit bewahren und das interkulturelle Verständnis fördern" ist das Ziel dieses Projekts
Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London | Books | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/24/espresso-book-machine-launches
wow.
What would you have printed?
The Espresso Book Machine can print any of 500,000 titles while you wait in 5 minutes
It's not elegant and it's not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible. Launching today at Blackwell's Charing Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait. Signalling the end, says Blackwell, to the frustration of being told by a bookseller that a title is out of print, or not in stock, the Espresso offers access to almost half a million books, from a facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland to Mrs Beeton's Book of Needlework. Blackwell hopes to increase this to over a million titles by the end of the summer – the equivalent of 23.6 miles of shelf space, or over 50 bookshops rolled into one.
The Art of Penguin Science Fiction
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/index.html
The history and cover art of science fiction published by Penguin Books from 1935 to 1977.
obaly scifi knih, pěknej art
Dickensurl.com
http://dickensurl.com/
URL-Wandlung in kurze URL-Adressen
this service has been created to convert long URLs into wonderful works by Charles Dickens. The fear of cryptic URLs, long or short, is now no longer a problem. Enter an ugly URL above and hit convert button. Soon you will be faced with beautiful words of Charles Dickens. Forget tinyurl.com, now you have dickensurl.com!
Inspired by a comment from reddit, this service has been created to convert long URLs into wonderful works by Charles Dickens. The fear of cryptic URLs, long or short, is now no longer a problem. Enter an ugly URL above and hit convert button. Soon you will be faced with beautiful words of Charles Dickens. Forget tinyurl.com, now you have dickensurl.com!
Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web - O'Reilly Radar
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/reinventing-the-book-age-of-web.html
Tim O'Reilly on the future of books.
new web books be ...
But simply putting books onto electronic devices is only the beginning. As I've said for years, that's a lot like pointing a camera at a stage play, and calling it a movie. Yes, that's pretty much what they did in many early movies, but eventually, the tools of production and consumption actually changed the format of what was produced and consumed. ... (+ own "TwitterBook":) The web has changed the nature of how we read and learn. Most books still use the old model of a sustained narrative as their organizational principle. Here, we've used a web-like model of standalone pages, each of which can be read alone (or at most in a group of two or three), to impart key points, highlight interesting techniques or the best applications for a given task.
O'Reilly Radar post from Tim on the #twitterbook
Tim O'Reilly and his O'Reilly media empire are reimagining the way they look at publishing books, and providing some insight into their thought process.
There's a lot of excitement about ebooks these days, and rightly so. While Amazon doesn't release sales figures for the Kindle, there's no question that it represents a turning point in the public perception of ebook devices. And of course, there's Stanza, an open ebook platform for the iPhone, which has been downloaded more than a million times (and now has been bought by Amazon.) But simply putting books onto electronic devices is only the beginning.
icoeye’s blog » Blog Archive » Save bookmark
http://www.icoeye.com/blog/?p=75
So simple and so effective. 'Save' icon bookmark to print out and cut out :)
Save Bookmark (template to print)
Vanity Press Plus: The Tweetbook | booktwo.org
http://booktwo.org/notebook/vanity-press-plus-the-tweetbook/
When Twitter is inevitably replaced by something else, I don’t want to lose all those incidentals, the casual asides, the remarks and responses. That’s all really. This seems like a nice way to do it, and I’ll probably do it again in a couple of years time.
I wanted to test Lulu’s capacity for hardback books, to continue experimenting with the literary cornucopia machine, and to see if you could make a traditional diary/journal in retrospect. And you can, and it’s quite nice (apart from some weird kerning issues). No, most of it doesn’t mean anything, certainly not to anyone else, but it makes physical a very real time and effort.
This is nifty - use the twitter api to download your tweets and publish them to a book using Indesign and Lulu. Ok, so you need a bit of time on your hands, but still, the results are cute.
booktwo.org physical twittering
iPhone Dev 101: Useful Cocoa Development Resources
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/03/25/iphone-dev-101-useful-cocoa-development-resources/
Para entender a internet (versão beta)
http://paraentenderainternet.blogspot.com/
Este "beta-livro" reúne textos originais de ativistas, acadêmicos e profissionais que estão ajudando a inventar/moldar a cultura da Web no Brasil. É uma experiência de produção de conteúdo educativo usando a Rede que começou na Campus Party em janeiro de 2009. É também um projeto colaborativo publicado com licença CC e aberto a interferências. E está melhorando graças a eles/as.
Este "beta-livro" reúne textos originais de ativistas, acadêmicos e profissionais que estão ajudando a inventar/moldar a cultura da Web no Brasil.
Home - BookArmy
http://www.bookarmy.com/
Literary social networking
Thomas Allen’s Book Art Photography | paintalicious
http://paintalicious.org/2008/11/20/thomas-allens-book-art-photography
cut out of books/ photos
creative idea
What Is Wrong with GTD? | WHAKATE
http://www.whakate.com/lead-articles/what-is-wrong-with-gtd/
Key Takeaways * GTD is a complex system that requires a lot of customisation. * Many users still find it useful and many others now offer their own customised version. * A new book by author David Allen promises to expand the concept to address work and life harmony. Beyond GTD: Why Thousands of GTD Fans Are Looking for More The most effective information workers in today’s competitive global marketplace are those who can master their time and their focus, producing both quality and quantity of output. » Get the PDF or MP3 audio “What is Wrong with GTD” from the Club library. At the online book-giant Amazon.com, the same book tops the search list of 170,000 plus titles on productivity and over 70,000 on time management. It’s called “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity,” and was written by David Allen, a mild-mannered time-management superman disguised as a Californian management consultant. First published in 2001, Allen’s 250-plus page how-to book
10 Free Linux Ebooks For Beginners | LinuxHaxor.net
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/05/10/10-free-linux-ebooks-for-beginners/
This time we tried to make a list of free books by categories. “Beginners”, “Advanced” and “Administrators”. This is the first part of the series, in the near future we will have a list for “Intermediate and Advanced Linux Users” and “Linux System Administrators”
1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell | Books | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell
Orwell had worked for David Astor's Observer since 1942, first as a book reviewer and later as a correspondent. The editor professed great admiration for Orwell's "absolute straightforwardness, his honesty and his decency", and would be his patron throughout the 1940s. The closeness of their friendship is crucial to the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
ith, an everyman for his times, continues to resonate for readers whose fears for the future are very different from those of an English writer in the mid-1940s.
CreativeTechs Tips » Free eBooks to Help Grow Your Studio.
http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/free-ebooks-to-help-grow-your-studio/
Free Programming Books
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/programming.php
Septivium - Ask MetaFilter’s best introductory books
http://www.septivium.com/b/2009/05/07/mefi/
To a variety of fields, for laypeople
Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book - Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/22/kindle-oreilly-ebooks-technology-breakthroughs_oreilly.html
Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle's lead will become a very short story.
Great quote! "Open allows experimentation. Open encourages competition. Open wins." from @timoreilly (Kindle vs Open Book)http://is.gd/kwWx [from http://twitter.com/LoXD/statuses/1245406729]
rt@timoreilly My post on Forbes: Why Amazon Kindle needs to support open standards. http://bit.ly/hjtfO [from http://twitter.com/frankhellwig/statuses/1253515333]
While users can load some of their own documents onto the Kindle, there is no easy way to "rip" a book.
He makes sense and is sane. I hope amazon listens.
tim o'reilly
Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual
the wiki manual
Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The full text of the O'Reilly book
everything you wanted to know about creating wikipedia pages!
By John Broughton. The first printing of the first edition of the book Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is now (January 25, 2009) also a set of wiki pages in the Help: namespace of Wikipedia.
Vim Recipes - Free cookbook for the Vim text editor
http://vim.runpaint.org/
"Vim Recipes is a free cookbook for Vim, the popular text editor. "
Programming Scala
http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/
50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read | Online College Degree
http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/05/20/50-banned-books-that-everyone-should-read/
good one
SitePoint : The Twitaway Free Book Giveaway
http://twitaway.aws.sitepoint.com/
Free book sample of Beautiful Web Design, The Art & Science of CSS and The CSS Anthology
3 كتب حول تصميم مواقع الويب متوفرة بالمجان
要はTwitterとメールをダイレクトメディアにする販促プレミアム、か。
Eucalyptus: The Library, to go – on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
http://th.ingsmadeoutofotherthin.gs/eucalyptus/
Eucalyptus: The Library, to go – on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
ebook reader for iphone
Order in the Library v4.0
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valmstrum/s2s/utopia/library4/src/library4.html
Student Librarian activity. Brillant!
Library Helper game
Good assessment or training for library helpers
Shelving practice
The Fight over the Google of All Libraries: A Wired.com FAQ | Epicenter
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/the-fight-over-the-worlds-greatest-library-the-wiredcom-faq/
There are more orphans than in a Dickens novel. Google won’t say how many there are. But UC Berkeley Professor Pamela Samuelson estimates that 70 percent of books that are still in copyright have rights holders that can’t be found. Copyright infringement can be expensive – up to $150,000 per violation. So if you scan an old book and start selling copies of it, or displaying chunks of it on the web, and the orphan’s father shows up one day waving a paternity test in your direction, you could face a mean copyright infringement suit. Unless you are Google: Since all U.S. book copyright holders are now plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Google gets liability protection from authors who abandoned their books by not registering in its books database. If they show up later, all they can do is collect a little cash, change their book price or ask Google to stop selling the book.
So in partnership with major university libraries, Google began scanning and digitizing millions of books in 2002, from ones like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales that are no longer copyrighted to the Harry Potter series to books whose authors and publishers cannot be located. The idea is simple, and audacious. Make the library of all libraries by converting every book ever published into an e-book that can be indexed, searched, read — and sold — online.
"The Google Book Search Settlement has been much in the news recently, with the Internet Archive, Philip K. Dick’s heirs, consumer groups and Microsoft registering their objections to the search giant’s agreement with authors and publishers. And now Justice Department anti-trust lawyers are meeting with Google about the settlement, raising the possibility of a full-blown anti-trust court showdown between the government and the world’s biggest search and advertising company."
Wired article about Google archiving books.
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records
http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html
Orwell v. Huxley
Or both right or both wrong.
Le pire étant de se rendre compte qu'ils ont tous deux raison...
huxley 2 orwell 1
Infinite Summer
http://www.infinitesummer.org/
summer reading challenge--Infinite jest
Googleが選ぶ20世紀の名著100選
http://arekore.nobody.jp/bestbooks.html
Goffman
Googleが選ぶ20世紀の名著100選
20世紀(1901年~2000年)に出版された文系の学術書の中で、どの本が多く引用されているかを100位まで調べてみた
Bloomsbury Academic
http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/remix.htm
Lessig doceert recht aan de Stanford Law School en noemt zichzelf 'activist tegen het copyrightextremisme'. Dat klinkt behoorlijk radicaal maar in zijn boeken (zijn andere werken kun je desgewenst ook gratis inzien of downloaden) ontpopt de auteur zich juist als een genuanceerd mens met oog voor alle kanten van het verhaal. Dat maakt Lessig niet alleen geloofwaardiger, het bewijst ook dat Lessig terecht wordt beschouwd als een van de grote denkers op dit gebied. Lessig, ook een van de mensen die aan de wieg stond van Creative Commons, is niet alleen een tegenstander van piraterij; hij pleit er ook voor dat copyright blijft bestaan, zij het in een andere vorm dan we het nu kennen. In Remix voert Lessig ons mee door de geschiedenis van copyright. Hij gaat uitgebreid in op de ontwikkeling van een 'Read Only Web' naar een 'Read Write Web' en toont daarbij aan hoe ver de bestaande wetgeving staat van de manier waarop informatie en entertainment anno 2009 geconsumeerd en geproduceerd wordt.
レッシグのRemix 後で読む
'Lessig's proposals for revising copyright are compelling, because they rethink intellectual property rights without abandoning them.
Why can't we concentrate? | Salon Books
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/04/29/rapt/index1.html
090608
Common Java Cookbook
http://www.discursive.com/books/cjcook/reference/book-cjcook.html
This collection provides expert tips for using Java-based utilities from projects such as Apache Commons, Apache Lucene, and Apache Velocity. You don't have to be an expert, the book's solution-based format contains code examples for a wide variety of web, XML, network, testing, and application projects. If you want to learn how to combine common open-source Java utilities to create powerful Java applications and tools, the Common Java Cookbook is for you.
Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature | Beyond The Beyond
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/05/eighteen-challenges-in-contemporary-literature
well, this got me worked up, didn't it now?
1. Literature is language-based and national; contemporary society is globalizing and polyglot.
Thoughtful listing of key issues affecting the production and consumption of 'literature'
terrifying and exciting and wow
Counter-Print.co.uk
http://counter-print.co.uk/
lots of nice prints
vintage design and fashion books - often out of print
Startup 101: Introducing Our Serialized "How to Build a Startup" Book - ReadWriteStart
http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/05/startup-101-our-serialized-how-to-build-startup-book.php
"Startup 101" is a serialized book about the thrills and spills of starting a Web technology venture. It will be a regular feature in our new channel ReadWriteStart, dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs. Startup 101 is for first-time entrepreneurs who want to go through the whole startup life cycle - including raising money, building a valuable business, and making a lot of money by selling the venture or taking it public.
How the Web and the Weblog have changed Writing
http://philip.greenspun.com/writing/changed-by-web-and-weblog
"This was preserved because the author had been Emperor. How much ancient wisdom was lost because the common Roman citizen lacked TCP/IP?"
"[by 1700 bc, the minoans were trading with spain, had big cities with flush toilets, a written language, and moderately sophisticated metalworking technology. had it not been for the eruption of thera (on santorini), it is quite possible that romans would have watched the assassination of julius caesar on television.]"
'This article, prepared to support a talk at Wordcamp 2009, discusses how writing itself has changed because of the availability of the Web and the Weblog.'
The Book Seer
http://bookseer.com/
Type in the name of the book and the author you have just read and book seer will give you ideas for other books to read
What should I read next?
Put in the name of a book you've read and get suggestions for other books you might like.
internet recommends books
zehnseiten.de
http://www.zehnseiten.de/start.php
Autoren lesen 10 Seiten aus ihrem Werk
Auszüge aus interessanten Büchern vorgelesen;
無垢材でできた本棚や収納棚を1cm刻みでサイズオーダーできる「本棚屋」
http://www.hondanaya.com/index.html
book
Seth's Blog: Textbook rant
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/06/textbook-rant.html
Seth Godin telling it like it is when it comes to the type of thing students are learning in marketing classes from outdated, overpriced, and misguided textbooks. I've seen this firsthand at so many interviews with business school students. A-frickin-men, Seth!
This industry deserves to die. It has extracted too much time and too much money and wasted too much potential. We can do better. A lot better.
The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means - The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22614
Manliness, heroes, & national character - a harrowing account of our own failures: http://tr.im/jII7 (Read 2 the end!) (via @jayrosen_nyu) [from http://twitter.com/CircleReader/statuses/1617944525]
New York Review of Books
2 of 2 essays by Mark Danner
NY Review of Books review referring to Feb 2007 Red Cross study on torture, referred to by Rahm Emanuel
Mark Danner NY Review of Books April 3009
Terrible Yellow Eyes
http://www.terribleyelloweyes.com/
for H.: <blockquote>Over the coming weeks and months I'll display a growing collection of works created by invited contributing artists and myself. We share a love and admiration for Sendak's work and the pieces we present here are done as a tribute to his life and legacy. ¶ Simply put, like a visual love letter to the book, with <b>Terrible Yellow Eyes</b> I am seeking to celebrate and promote the original masterwork by Maurice Sendak in the best way I know how -- with pictures.</blockquote>
A collection of art work inspired by Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are
20 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries - Oddee.com (beautiful libraries, amazing libraries...)
http://oddee.com/item_96527.aspx
For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers, for others it’s abandoned factories or lost cities. But for those who enjoy reading, a huge beautiful library is a place of endless pleasure. Meet 20 of the biggest and most beautiful libraries around the globe, as presented by Curious Expeditions.
yWriter5 - Free novel writing software to help you write a book
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html
Programmer turned novelist uses his skills to create custom writing software. Perhaps I should try it sometime to put down some of my wilder ideas?
Pandora's Skull: All the Twittered Shakespeare Synopses
http://opoyul.blogspot.com/2009/01/all-twittered-shakespeare-synopses.html
Twitter version of synopses of all Shakespeare plays. Genius!
Alle Shakespeare-Dramen in 140 Zeichen
Synopses of Shakespeare's plays in 140 characters or less
RT @ShakespeareGeek @Pogue: All the Shakespeare plays' plots, in 140 char or less: http://xrl.in/235e [from http://twitter.com/CircleReader/statuses/1604620746]
twittering Shakespeare
All of Will's work - twittled down
Books | Derek Sivers
http://sivers.org/book
Excellent looking list of books to read
Stumbling on Happiness
squeakland : resources : books : reading list
http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
Etoys is an educational tool for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways. Etoys is a media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system.
Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement - O'Reilly Radar
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/legally-speaking-the-dead-soul.html
An intersting artical about "orphan" book. Those book out-of-print but still under copyright. Most of which it is impossible to find the appropraite rights holder.
Summary of the legal and commercial implications of Google book search by Pamela Samuelson.
"The Book Search agreement is not really a settlement of a dispute over whether scanning books to index them is fair use. It is a major restructuring of the book industry’s future without meaningful government oversight. The market for digitized orphan books could be competitive, but will not be if this settlement is approved as is."
article
Google and the Book Rights Registery
"Conclusion In the short run, the Google Book Search settlement will unquestionably bring about greater access to books collected by major research libraries over the years. But it is very worrisome that this agreement, which was negotiated in secret by Google and a few lawyers working for the Authors Guild and AAP (who will, by the way, get up to $45.5 million in fees for their work on the settlement--more than all of the authors combined!), will create two complementary monopolies with exclusive rights over a research corpus of this magnitude. Monopolies are prone to engage in many abuses. The Book Search agreement is not really a settlement of a dispute over whether scanning books to index them is fair use. It is a major restructuring of the book industry's future without meaningful government oversight. The market for digitized orphan books could be competitive, but will not be if this settlement is approved as is."
Free Books from Other Publishers - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
http://www.gnu.org/doc/other-free-books.html
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/06/090706crbo_books_gladwell?currentPage=all
Why are the self-interested motives of powerful companies being elevated to a philosophical principle? Gladwell owns Anderson by using an example from Anderson's own book.
Fifty Books for Our Times | Newsweek Books | Newsweek.com
http://www.newsweek.com/id/204300?digg=1
Before Wall-E, there was this penetrating parable of the grim future of technology and life on an Earth without animals (and the basis for Blade Runner).
books, reading
We know it's insane. We know people will ask why on earth we think that an 1875 British satirical novel is the book you need to read right now—or, for that matter, why it even made the cut. The fact is, no one needs another best-of list telling you how great The Great Gatsby is. What we do need, in a world with precious little time to read (and think), is to know which books—new or old, fiction or nonfiction—open a window on the times we live in, whether they deal directly with the issues of today or simply help us see ourselves in new and surprising ways. Which is why we'd like you to sit down with Anthony Trollope, and these 49 other remarkably trenchant voices.
Read It: Search User Interfaces
http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/
search ebooks free
So you wanna be a user experience designer — Step 1: Resources - Pleasure and Pain by Whitney Hess
http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/06/so-you-wanna-be-a-user-experience-designer-step-1-resources/
ux links
User Experience Resources: Books, blogs, publications, etc.
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose Discuss Their Top 5 Must-Read Books
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/06/01/tim-ferriss-and-kevin-rose-discuss-their-top-5-must-read-books/
hahah dude thats why kevin rose designed something and tim goes on tv for fun
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose Discuss Their Top 5 Must-Read Books
What to Read Now. And Why
http://www.newsweek.com/id/204300
What to Read Now. And Why.
Fifty Books for Our Times | Newsweek Books | Newsweek.com
http://www.newsweek.com/id/204300/page/1
We know it's insane. We know people will ask why on earth we think that an 1875 British satirical novel is the book you need to read right now—or, for that matter, why it even made the cut. The fact is, no one needs another best-of list telling you how great The Great Gatsby is. What we do need, in a world with precious little time to read (and think), is to know which books—new or old, fiction or nonfiction—open a window on the times we live in, whether they deal directly with the issues of today or simply help us see ourselves in new and surprising ways. Which is why we'd like you to sit down with Anthony Trollope, and these 49 other remarkably trenchant voices.
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer
link to audio book. "All this was possible because Alan Kay, an engineer at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, understood what Moore's law was doing to the cost of computing. He decided to do what writer George Gilder calls "wasting transistors." Rather than reserve computing power for core information processing, Kay used outrageous amounts of it for frivolous stuff like drawing cartoons on the screen." - "By 1970s IT standards, Kay had "wasted" computing power. ... This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently.
Chris Andersons neues Buch "Free" kostet 27 Dollar - wenn man es im Buchladen kauft. Wer sich jedoch die Audiobuch-Version herunterladen möchte, bekommt sie geschenkt, ganz im Sinne des Buchtitels - "Kostenlos: Die Zukunft eines radikalen Preises".
40 Free and Essential Web Design and Development Books from Google : Speckyboy Design Magazine
http://speckyboy.com/2009/07/06/40-free-and-essential-web-design-and-development-books-from-google/
FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17135767/FREE-by-Chris-Anderson
Covers 'freemium' business model and more...
FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17135767/FREE-full-book-by-Chris-Anderson
From everyone's favourite magazine editor...
Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html
book
HANDCRAFTED CSS by Dan Cederholm with Ethan Marcotte
http://handcraftedcss.com/
New web design book by Dan Cederholm with Ethan Marcotte.
100 Best Blogs for School Librarians | Online College Tips - Online Colleges
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/07/07/100-best-blogs-for-school-librarians/
seznam (kategorie např: nástroje a technologie, obecné blogy, projekty a nápady, tématické: čtení)
Skype an Author Into Your Library or Classroom - Skype An Author Network
http://skypeanauthor.wetpaint.com/
Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after you've read their books? We are growing a list of authors who want to make that connection with you. See the alphabetical list in the scrolling author box on the left. Read on to find out just how easy it is!
Authors to Skype into classrooms and library
Op-Ed Columnist - The Best Kids’ Books Ever - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05kristof.html?em
Recommended Books for your User Experience and Usability Library | UX Booth
http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/recommended-books-for-your-user-experience-and-usability-library/
25 Must-Read Books For Designers, Typography Lovers And Freelancers | Spyre Studios
http://spyrestudios.com/must-read-books-for-designers-typography-lovers-and-freelancers/
The Unlimited Freelancer
The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/07/free-for-free-first-ebook-and-audiobook-versions-released.html
10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com
http://www.theapple.com/benefits/articles/8529-10-technology-enhanced-alternatives-to-book-reports
The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports. Teachers assign them, viewing them as a necessary component of assessing reading comprehension. Book reports can be a contributing factor to ‘readicide’. “Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools.” http://stenhouse.com/html/readicide.htm. So, how can we as teachers continue to monitor our students understanding of reading material without killing the love of reading? Enter technology. Technology can help bring some excitement and creativity to the traditional book report while still displaying students understanding of reading.
Computer Science Books Online
http://www.sciencebooksonline.info/computer-science.html
free computer science books online in PDF format
eso
We Make Stories
http://wemakestories.com/
Here you can create your own story, share it with friends and visit the gallery to see what other Storymakers have made.
Fer històries
oh wow - this is fun;)
mi piace la grafica
Enables digital stories to be made and shared with friends.
Book publishers Penguin have developed a website where children can write, illustrate (and add sounds) and publish their own stories.
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http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1736/200905amusingourselvest.png
so true.
Huxley vs Orwell
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/
AHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA
"Publishers and other content providers make a grave error when they ensure that legitimately purchasing their products involves more hassle and uncertainty than simply pirating them." - one of the comments. Very true.
"This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. [...] apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by this author from people’s Kindles and credited their accounts for the price. " Allein die Tatsache, dass sich Leute so eine Ausgeburt an DRM-Geschwülsten zulegen, bei der deren Anbieter sogar noch retroaktiv Zugriff auf den vermeintlich eigenen Buchbestand hat... unglaublich.
it’s like Barnes & Noble sneaking into our homes in the middle of the night, taking some books that we’ve been reading off our nightstands, and leaving us a check on the coffee table. You want to know the best part? The juicy, plump, dripping irony? The author who was the victim of this Big Brotherish plot was none other than George Orwell. And the books were “1984” and “Animal Farm.”
Amazon removed purchased e-books from Kindles when a publisher had second thoughts about online distribution.
amazon smáznul z kindle čtečky lidem zakoupené kopie orwella, protože podle nakladatele byly neautorizované, sice jim poslal peéíz ena účet, ale udělal to bez ptaní, druhej den prostě knížku ve čtečce neměli
Already, we’ve learned that they’re not really like books, in that once we’re finished reading them, we can’t resell or even donate them. But now we learn that all sales may not even be final.
Catherynne M. Valente: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland
http://catherynnemvalente.com/fairyland/
A free online novel by Catherynne M. Valente, powered by donations.
Every Monday a new chapter is uploaded so the adventure can continue.
catherynne valente
Google Book Search Settlement Agreement
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/
Googles own view on Googlebooks
We denken dat het een geweldig voordeel voor de uitgeversbranche zal zijn om auteurs en uitgevers in staat te stellen geld te verdienen aan boeken waarvan ze dachten dat deze nooit meer op de markt zouden verschijnen.
Three years ago, the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and a handful of authors and publishers filed a class action lawsuit against Google Book Search. Today we're delighted to announce that we've settled that lawsuit and will be working closely with these industry partners to bring even more of the world's books online. Together we'll accomplish far more than any of us could have individually, to the enduring benefit of authors, publishers, researchers and readers alike.
Bits Of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 1
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bits_of_destruction_hit_book_publishing_part1.php
Author: 10% (This in fact ranges between 8% and 15%, depending on the author's clout -- e.g. Stephen King does better than most. If the author has an agent, the agent's cut comes out of this. It is indeed tough for new authors.) Publisher: 30% (This ranges between 25% and 32%, again depending on the author's clout -- e.g. their percentage is less with Stephen King because the risk is lower too. Note: this is their net revenue, after deducting author royalties and printer fees.) Printer: 10% Distributor: 10% Retailer: 40%
61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/the-mostly-complete-annotated-and-essential-postmodern-reading-list.html
David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" -- "The Mezzanine" by Nicholson Baker
Content is a Service Business - Tools of Change for Publishing
http://toc.oreilly.com/2009/07/content-is-a-service-business.html
- Tools of Change for Publishing
"Whether they realize it or not, media companies are in the service business, not the content business. Look at iTunes: if people paid for content, then it would follow that better content would cost more money. But every song costs the same. Why would people pay the same price for goods of (often vastly) different quality? Because they're not paying for the goods they're paying Apple for the service of providing a selection of convenient options easy to pay for and easy to download."
20 User Experience Books you should own | UXbyDesign.org
http://www.uxbydesign.org/2009/06/24/20-user-experience-books-you-should-own/
For people who make things for people who use things...
The Bookworm's Guide to the Lifehacker Galaxy - Book - Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/5322188/the-bookworms-guide-to-the-lifehacker-galaxy
Pro Git - Table of Contents
http://progit.org/book/
Scott Chacon's CC licensed book on Git.
Pro Git - Pro Git Book
http://progit.org/
st on the Pro Git book website, which contains the full content of the book published by Apress and a blog for me to share Git tips and book news with everybody.
日本からも1店選出された、「世界の素晴らしい本屋さんベスト10」 : ひろぶろ
http://www.hiroburo.com/archives/50842186.html
行ってみたい所ばかりなのでメモ。
読子・リードマンがいそうな風景だ
Where I Write - Main Page
http://www.whereiwrite.org/
http://www.whereiwrite.org/ write 2 writing 6 whereiwrite.org
Have you ever wondered where writers actually get to do their writing? Where I Write gives a fascinating glimpse into the creative spaces of professional writers with photos of their work areas.
Where Scifi authors write
Fantatsy and Science Fiction authors - creative spaces and photos of thier work areas
Where I Write: Fantasy & Science Fiction Authors In their creatvie spaces
An interesting project where they document where authors do their writing.
Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/07/30/speed-reading-and-accelerated-learning/
Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker?currentPage=all
by Nicholson Baker
ANNALS OF READING about the Kindle 2. The writer ordered the Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could he not? Everybody was saying that the new Kindle was terribly important. Writing and publishing, wrote Steven Johnson in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, would never be the same. In <i>Newsweek…
The Second Pass
http://thesecondpass.com/?p=1663
Books in the canon that this guy reckons, shouldn't be...
A humorous take on books to skip
List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books
free programming books
List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow
5 Excellent Downloadable eBooks To Teach Yourself Linux
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-downloadable-books-to-teach-yourself-linux/
So you have heard of all the advantages and geeky babble about how Linux is better and you have finally decided to try it? Just one thing, you don’t know an awful lot about Linux to get you started. How about some free downloadable ebooks to teach yourself Linux, that you can download today? Would that help? Free – you ask? Yes, free. Welcome to the world of Linux where things are free both as in free speech and also as in free beer (mostly)! If you are starting out on your journey towards Linux awesomeness, here are a few free downloadable ebooks to teach yourself Linux that should help you along nicely:
see also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books
twitterで読書記録。読んだ4!
http://yonda4.com/
twitterで読書記録。@yonda4宛につぶやくだけで自分の読書録ページが生成されます。映画向けの「見た4」とかあったら怠け者の僕にはすごく良いと思います!!
twitterで読書記録ができるサービス。アフィリエイトも。
The Scheme Programming Language, 4th Edition
http://www.scheme.com/tspl4/
MagMe - Online Magazines | Publish and Read Magazines Online
http://www.magme.com/site/
online magazines
MagMe is an online service platform that provides a free distribution channel for digital publications. Revistas en Línea
Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker
ANNALS OF READING about the Kindle 2. The writer ordered the Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could he not? Everybody was saying that the new Kindle was terribly important. Writing and publishing, wrote Steven Johnson in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, would never be the same. In <i>Newsweek…
Can the Kindle really improve on the book?
The Kindle vs. the book by Nicholson Baker
Via ...? Nicholson Baker gives the Kindle 2 a test drive, compares it to printed books and the iPhone, and gives us a history of how the Kindle came to be.
Printed books on User Experience free to read online » The UX Bookmark
http://www.theuxbookmark.com/2009/07/interaction-design/printed-books-on-user-experience-free-to-read-online/
a good resource to stop by, when thinking about changes in your user interface.
Audience Picks: 100 Best Beach Books Ever : NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106983620
Some of these are surprising! Anna Karenina is a beach read?
Almost 16,000 of you voted in our Best Beach Books poll. Whether such a vote can determine literary quality, who can say? But if there's one thing a multitude of book-loving NPR types can definitely do, it's pick books that appeal ... to book-loving NPR types.
90. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education | Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/muddle-machine
A former schoolbook editor parses the politics of educational publishing.
K-12 textbooks; influence of Texas on the process; influence of Texas 'conservative Christian activists' on the selection process; "A former schoolbook editor parses the politics of educational publishing."
Free Ebooks on Marketing, Social Media, Business, Blogging and More
http://dannybrown.me/ebooks/
Summer 2009 :: Rebecca Blood
http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/reading_lists/summer_2009
Library Journal.com: 35 Going on 13: Fantasy Land recommendations for lovers of fantastic or speculative fiction
great compilation of summer reading lists that can be used for other things
reading lists
A lot of summer reading lists
2009 Summer Reading list of lists. Rebecca's Pocket is an ongoing collection of links, articles, and reviews. Curated by Rebecca Blood since 1999.
25 Great Thinkers Every College Student Should Read - Learn-gasm
http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2009/25-great-thinkers-every-college-student-should-read/
25 Great Thinkers Every College Student Should Read August 6th, 2009 By Donna Scott College is for expanding one’s intellectual horizons. Unfortunately, drinking and having fun can distract from learning about history’s great thinkers. From Mark Twain to Confucius, an educated individual should posses some knowledge of certain philosophers, artists and thinkers. Here are 25 great thinkers every college student should read, even if professors don’t assign them.
College is for expanding one’s intellectual horizons. Unfortunately, drinking and having fun can distract from learning about history’s great thinkers. From Mark Twain to Confucius, an educated individual should posses some knowledge of certain philosophers, artists and thinkers. Here are 25 great thinkers every college student should read, even if professors don’t assign them.
10 Must-Dos for the First Week of College - College - Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/5335215/10-must+dos-for-the-first-week-of-college
With the start of the academic year, it's time to switch out of vacation mode&mdash;pronto. What you do the first week of classes can majorly impact your grades four months from now, so don't skip these first week must-dos.
Socialnomics – Social Media Blog
http://socialnomics.net/
Everything related to Social Media Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fsocialnomics.net
Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
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Interesting!
FastPencil / Connect, Write, Self-Publish and Promote Your Book - all in one place.
http://www.fastpencil.com/
/ Connect, Write, Self-Publish and Promote Your Book - all in one place.
FastPencil is a free service Here's what you can do on FastPencil FREE: •Write and organize your book •Collaborate and share with friends •Format and layout the inside content •Generate a beautiful color cover •Publish to the FastPencil Marketplace •Sell your book on your profile page How do we make money? When you buy and sell published books. We also make money when you purchase additional services like publishing packages, multi-channel distribution or editing. For example, using our free platform you can write, edit and publish a beautiful 100 page paperback book, get one copy printed and delivered to your doorstep for under $10 bucks.
40 Modern Nonfiction Books Everyone Should Read | Marc and Angel Hack Life
http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/08/24/40-modern-nonfiction-books-everyone-should-read/
Get High Now
http://gethighnow.com/
visual and audio mind benders
Inside Google Books: Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books in the Open EPUB Format
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/08/download-over-million-public-domain.html
Google Books will offer downloads of these and more than one million more public domain books in an additional format, EPUB. By adding support for EPUB downloads, we're hoping to make these books more accessible by helping people around the world to find and read them in more places. More people are turning to new reading devices to access digital books, and many such phones, netbooks, and e-ink readers have smaller screens that don't readily render image-based PDF versions of the books we've scanned. EPUB is a lightweight text-based digital book format that allows the text to automatically conform (or "reflow") to these smaller screens. And because EPUB is a free, open standard supported by a growing ecosystem of digital reading devices, works you download from Google Books as EPUBs won't be tied to or locked into a particular device. We'll also continue to make available these books in the popular PDF format so you can see images of the pages just as they appear in the printed book.
Also describes process of digitisation as well as importance and value - eg affordability and accessiblity
Top 100 Best Social Media Books, Ever « Mellow Billow
http://blog.mellowbillow.com/2009/08/17/top-100-best-social-media-books-ever/
Calculated using 6 criteria including quantity sold and amazon rating
RT @geechee_girl: our @dummies is #23 on this list of best social media books http://bit.ly/bCram [from http://twitter.com/WayneNH/statuses/3363041048]
Stephen Marsland
http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/smarsland/MLBook.html
I've written a textbook entitled "Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective". It will be published by CRC Press, part of the Taylor and Francis group, on 2nd April 2009. The book is aimed at computer science and engineering undergraduates studing machine learning and artificial intelligence.
I've written a textbook entitled "Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective". It will be published by CRC Press, part of the Taylor and Francis group, on 2nd April 2009. The book is aimed at computer science and engineering undergraduates studing machine learning and artificial intelligence. There are lots of Python code examples in the book, and the code is available here.
Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective
Python codes from a textbook entitled "Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective"
by Stephen Marsland
I've written a textbook entitled "Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective". It will be published by CRC Press, part of the Taylor and Francis group, on 2nd April 2009. The book is aimed at computer science and engineering undergraduates studing machine learning and artificial intelligence. There are lots of Python code examples in the book, and the code is available here. Where special datasets are used they are provided with the code, and there are links to additional datasets at the bottom of the page.
Good Novels Don’t Have to Be Hard Work - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574377163804387216.html
If there's a key to what the 21st-century novel is going to look like, says novelist Lev Grossman, this is it: the ongoing exoneration and rehabilitation of plot.
Good Novels Don’t Have to Be Hard Work - WSJ.com http://bit.ly/X9oM4 [from http://twitter.com/dcouturepdx/statuses/3680002494]
Stories - Interactive Sites for Smartboard Use – Grades K - 5 - Oak Street Elementary School - Plattsburgh City School District
http://plattsburgh.neric.org/oak/smartboard/stories.htm
Interactive Stories for grades K-5. Most are SMART-friendly.
Stories Interactive Sites for Smartboard Use – Grades K - 5
Different websites with stories. Mainly primary, but one site has a link to over 1000 online stories
Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/
- The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Geoffrey Nunberg
also check out the link to google's mis-scannings..
August 31, 2009 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that points out some endemic errors with the digitized book quality including grossly erroneous dates. Also points out the problem of monopoly.
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know - Programmer 97-things
http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/97_Things_Every_Programmer_Should_Know
Nette Übersicht über 97 Sachen die jeder Programmierer wissen sollte :)
FreightRefunds.com - Provides freight audit for clients who ship cargo via ocean freight and the refunds are paid to clients directly from the service providers.If your company is not paid a refund, our service at Ocean Freight Refunds Inc. (OFR) is free of charge.
Shelfari: Neil Gaiman's Bookshelves
http://blog.shelfari.com/my_weblog/2009/09/neil.html
oh jebus.
Essentials of Metaheuristics
http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/
Free course/lecture notes on optimization algorithms: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, particle swarm optimization
"What is a Metaheuristic? A common but unfortunate name for any stochastic optimization algorithm intended to be the last resort before giving up and using random or brute-force search. Such algorithms are used for problems where you don't know how to find a good solution, but if shown a candidate solution, you can give it a grade. The algorithmic family includes genetic algorithms, hill-climbing, simulated annealing, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, and so on. "
This is an open set of lecture notes on metaheuristics algorithms, intended for undergraduate students, practitioners, programmers, and other non-experts. It was developed as a series of lecture notes for an undergraduate course I taught at GMU. The chapters are designed to be printable separately if necessary. As it's lecture notes, the topics are short and light on examples and theory.
The future of libraries, with or without books - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/04/future.library.technology/index.html
exciting times!
Authors, publishing houses, librarians and Web sites continue to fight Google's efforts to digitize the world's books and create the world's largest library online. Meanwhile, many real-world libraries are moving forward with the assumption that physical books will play a much-diminished or potentially nonexistent role in their efforts to educate the public. Some books will still be around, they say, although many of those will be digital. But the goal of the library remains the same: To be a free place where people can access and share information.
I think this article poses a good question: what will libraries, the long held havens of literacy, look like in the coming age? This has a profound impact on new literacies in that libraries now have to adapt more quickly to up and coming technologies. So, very soon all a person will ever have to do is log onto their computer and they might very well have access to every book ever written.
The future of libraries, with or without books
By some accounts, the library system is undergoing a complete transformation that goes far beyond image changes.
the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry
http://benfry.com/traces/
książka Darwina - animacja rozwoju ksiazki
A visualization of Charles Darwin's edits and additions to On the Origin of Species over the course of six editions. Created using Processing. (via MeFi)
Free, legal textbooks related to computer science
http://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks/
Discover Music, Movies, Books, and More - SwingVine
http://www.swingvine.com/
Tracks popular trends online
Discover new music, movies, books, fashion, wine, food, drinks, and more. Browse related multimedia, contextual vines, and reviews.
4 Websites With LOTS Of Completely Free Ebooks That Don’t Suck
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-websites-with-lots-of-completely-free-ebooks-that-dont-suck-nb/
If you're a fervent reader and nerd like I am, you've probably encountered quite a lot of writing online. However, most of them are either absolute garbage or
ebook
Johns Hopkins Magazine – The Autodidact Course Catalog
http://magazine.jhu.edu/2009/08/the-autodidact-course-catalog/
A great, lengthy piece on cool things to read online to learn more about the world
One would be hard-pressed to disapprove of autodidacticism. Consider a list of notable alumni from the academy of the self-taught: René Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, William Blake.
Coding Horror: 9 Ways Marketing Weasels Will Try to Manipulate You
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001301.html
A great review of Predictably Irrational - the hidden forces that shape our decisions by Dan Ariely. Why we act the way we do when we buy and how we are constantly manipulated by companies and advertisers. The question we have is will this change because of social media?
"7. Capitalize on our Aversion to Loss" - : - A good reason for subscriptions to have multiple levels
# f what you've spent so far on a service, product, or relationship -- in effort or money -- is probably far less than you think. Be willing to walk away. # Once you've bought something, never rely on your internal judgment to assess its value, because you're too close to it now. A
It's a fascinating examination of why human beings are wired and conditioned to react irrationally. We human beings are a selfish bunch, so it's all the more surprising to see how easily we can be manipulated to behave in ways that run counter to our own self-interest. This isn't just a "gee-whiz" observation; understanding how and why we behave irrationally is important. If you don't understand how these irrational behaviors are triggered, the marketing weasels will use them against you.
Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com)
http://robinsloan.com/2009/41/
Table of Contents | Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content
Submitted by korfuri
This is the beginning of Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! Reading this tutorial should be one of your first steps in learning Erlang.
Follow the links and be prepared to have your mind moderately blown.
New Gladwell book: What the Dog Saw
http://kottke.org/09/09/new-gladwell-book-what-the-dog-saw
Gladwell articles
The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection
http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/poedc/
Edgar Allan Poe digital collection with annotated manuscripts, letters, books belonging to Poe.
How to download books from Google - Hack a Day
http://hackaday.com/2009/09/09/how-to-download-books-from-google/
Descarga de los libros de Google Books
Everyone must be aware of the Google Books Library project by now. If you’re not, it’s basically a way for Google to ensure all of the world’s book content is accessible and searchable. Through the Book Project, Google works with libraries to scan and archive their older and out of print materials. Up until recently, viewers of books in the Google Library Project web space were limited to viewing books within the browser.
Libro-s! Buscador de libros para descargar gratis
http://www.libro-s.com/
buscador libro
HOW WE DECIDE: mind-blowing neuroscience of decision-making - Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/08/how-we-decide-mind-b.html
Lehrer is interested in the historic dichotomy between "emotional" decision-making and "rational" decision-making and what modern neuroscience can tell us about these two modes of thinking. One surprising and compelling conclusion is that people who experience damage to the parts of their brain responsible for emotional reactions are unable to decide, because their rational mind dithers endlessly over the possible rational reasons for each course of action. The Platonic ideal of a rational being making decisions without recourse to the wordless gut-instinct is revealed as a helpless schmuck who can't answer questions as basic as "White or brown toast?"
HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web
http://mashable.com/2009/09/16/write-novel/
Writing a book can be a daunting task, but there are a range of web apps that can help you from start to finish as you attempt to make your novel a reality.
Журнал «Практика функционального программирования» Выпуск 1, июль 2009
http://fprog.ru/2009/issue1/
Dive Into Python 3
http://diveintopython3.org/?dupe=withhonor
Free Books for Download | FreeBook-s.com
http://www.freebook-s.com/
Descarga de libros gratis
Livros grátis
Buscador de libors online
Create Your Own Programming Language
http://createyourproglang.com/
ntroduction in building your first toy language.
How To Create Your Own Freaking Awesome Programming Language
The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/6194031/The-Lost-Symbol-and-The-Da-Vinci-Code-author-Dan-Browns-20-worst-sentences.html
The Lost Symbol, the latest novel by The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, has gone on sale. We pick 20 of the clumsiest phrases from it and from his earlier works. - The critics are certainly harsh. Edinburgh professor of linguistics Geoffrey Pullum says “Brown's writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad.” He picks out some excerpts for special criticism. The female lead in Angels and Demons learns of the death of her scientist father: “Genius, she thought. My father . . . Dad. Dead.” A member of the Vatican Guard in the same book becomes annoyed by something, and we learn that "his eyes went white, like a shark about to attack."
Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences
Famously, comedian Stewart Lee mocked him for using the sentence “The famous man looked at the red cup” in his bestselling The Da Vinci Code.
Великие слова — цитаты, афоризмы, высказывания
http://greatwords.ru/
Цитаты, афоризмы, высказывания
A library without the books - The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/04/a_library_without_the_books/
“When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books,’’ said James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing and chief promoter of the bookless campus. ... We’re not discouraging students from reading. We see this as a natural way to shape emerging trends and optimize technology.’’ Instead of a library, the academy is spending nearly $500,000 to create a “learning center,’’ though that is only one of the names in contention for the new space. In place of the stacks, they are spending $42,000 on three large flat-screen TVs that will project data from the Internet and $20,000 on special laptop-friendly study carrels. Where the reference desk was, they are building a $50,000 coffee shop that will include a $12,000 cappuccino machine. And to replace those old pulpy devices that have transmitted information since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1400s, they have spent $10,000 to buy 18 electronic readers made by Amazon.com and Sony.
There are rolling hills and ivy-covered brick buildings. There are small classrooms, high-tech labs, and well-manicured fields. There&#8217;s even a clock tower with a massive bell that rings for special events.
Cushing Academy has all the hallmarks of a New England prep school, with one exception. This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library.
“When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books,’’ said James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing and chief promoter of the bookless campus. “ We see this as a natural way to shape emerging trends and optimize technology.’’ Instead of a library, the academy is spending nearly $500,000 to create a “learning center" . In place of the stacks, they are spending $42,000 on three large flat-screen TVs that will project data from the Internet and $20,000 on special laptop-friendly study carrels. Where the reference desk was, they are building a $50,000 coffee shop that will include a $12,000 cappuccino machine.
Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books
Makes sense to me. Its the content not the transmission medium.
Top 10 Media and Marketing Books of All Time - Advertising Age - Book Reviews
http://adage.com/bookstore/post?article_id=134945
10 mejores libros, interesantes posts luego para complementar
from Kristina Halvorson, list of adage's best books about media and marketing
I'd really like to see Fred's comments about this list!
Parallel Programming in Haskell: A Reading List « Control.Monad.Writer
http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/parallel-programming-in-haskell-a-reading-list/
Here’s my basic “How to learn about parallel programming in Haskell” reading list.
A haskell reading material
JavaBooks.org :: Learning is now simple
http://www.javabooks.org/
专注于为Java编程者们提供各种分类信息,以排行榜、评论和评测等各种方式展示Java方面的最新新闻动态,还能搜索到帮助你学习提高的各种打折优惠Java书籍杂志,之后与其他Java编程者互动交流读书心得
Thirteen Steps to Write and Publish a Free Ebook In Thirteen Hours
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/09/16/thirteen-steps-to-write-and-publish-a-free-ebook-in-thirteen-hours/
Writing an outline: 30 minutes First draft of content: 4 hours Adding some graphics: 1 hour 30 mins (mostly my boyfriend’s work!) Redrafting and editing, inserting all links: 3 hours Appendix of resources: 1 hour Creating a cover: 1 hour 30 mins Converting to pdf: almost instant! Final proof-read and link-checking: 15 minutes Launching and spreading the word: 1 hour 15 minutes
Leo's Chronicle: ぜひ押さえておきたいコンピューターサイエンスの教科書
http://leoclock.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post_21.html
コンピューターサイエンスの教科書
全部読みたい
The Top 20 Digital Photography Books | Digital Photography Basics
http://www.digitalphotographybasics.com/20-must-reads-for-any-serious-photographer/
książki o fotografii
eBMJ -- Statistics at Square One
http://www.bmj.com/collections/statsbk/
Συμπαθητική εισαγωγή στην στατιστική
'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112312561
omg!
Series coming to an end. Children no longer presumed literate.
26 years! Wow! Not as long as Sesame Street, but WOW!
For 26 years, Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton shepherded kids through the exciting world of books. The show, which fostered a love of reading, was the third longest-running program in PBS history, outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
I recommend this article for those of you who grew up with Reading Rainbow and who value children's literature.
After 26 years, the beloved children's show hosted by LeVar Burton will disappear from the airwaves. Today, educational funding favors programs that teach kids how to read, rather than why to read.
Even if you can't remember a specific Reading Rainbow episode, chances are, the theme song is still lodged somewhere in your head: Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high, Take a look, it's in a book — Reading Rainbow ... Remember now? Reading Rainbow comes to the end of its 26-year run on Friday; it has won more than two-dozen Emmys, and is the third longest-running children's show in PBS history — outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers.
"Research has directed programming toward phonics and reading fundamentals as the front line of the literacy fight. Reading Rainbow occupied a more luxurious space — the show operated on the assumption that kids already had basic reading skills and instead focused on fostering a love of books."
"Grant says that PBS, CPB and the Department of Education put significant funding toward programming that would teach kids how to read — but that's not what Reading Rainbow was trying to do."
Google Book Downloader Downloads Books to PDF - Google Books - Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/5361738/google-book-downloader-downloads-books-to-pdf
Windows: Thanks to Google's drive to add more and more books to the Google Books project, including thousands of public domain volumes, you'll find quite a nice selection to choose from. Google Book Downloader helps you download them to PDF.
Digital Foundations
http://digital-foundations.net/
Learn to use the Adobe Creative Suite using the design principles of the Bauhaus school
opensource graphic design book
jQuery Enlightenment | by Cody Lindley | 1st Edition | based on jQuery 1.3.2
http://jqueryenlightenment.com/
Sounds just what I need to take my jQuery to the next level. All the technical authors are people I follow/admire/respect.
jQuery Enlightenment was written to express, in short-order, the concepts essential to intermediate and advanced jQuery development. Its purpose is to instill in you, the reader, the knowledge that jQuery developers take as common development knowledge. Each chapter contains concepts critical to becoming a seasoned jQuery developer. This was written for three types of readers. The first reader is the person who has read all of the introductory books on jQuery and is looking for the next logical read. The second type of reader is the JavaScript developer, already versed in another solution, but is now trying to quickly learn jQuery. For these types of readers this is exactly the book you wish every library had available. The third reader is me, the author. I genuinely crafted this book so that it could be used as my own personal reference source to jQuery concepts.
jQuery Enlightenment
jquery by example $15
# Not limited to a single ready() event # Attaching/removing events using bind() and unbind() # Programmatically invoke a specific handler via short event methods # jQuery normalizes the event object # Grokking event namespacing # Grokking event delegation # Applying event handlers to DOM elements regardless of DOM updates using live() # Adding a function to several event handlers # Cancel default browser behavior with preventDefault() # Cancel event propagation with stopPropagation() # Cancel default browser behavior and event propagation via return false # Create custom events and trigger them via trigger() # Cloning events as well as DOM eleme
古本の買取価格はどこが一番高いのか? | 古本買取価格比較レポート
http://bookget.net/bookoff
500~3000円、←大差ない/タダ同然、ブックオフ
よく調べたな・・・。
「 買取サイトの平均買取価格1,262円に対して、 ブックオフ店舗(ブックマーケットを除く)の平均は2,176円でした。 この結果だけみれば店舗のほうが買取価格が高いですが、 近所のブックオフ店が高価買取か分からないし自分で持ち込む必要があります。 一方の古本買取サイトならネット申し込みでカンタンですが、 買取価格が安い場合でも返送料が高いのであきらめるしかありません。 どちらも一長一短がありますが、 もし近所に複数のブックオフ店があるなら比較してみるといいかもしれません。 持ち込むのがタイヘンだったり近所に店舗がないときは、 今回の調査でもっとも高価買取だった livedoorリサイクル が良さそうです。 」
Neural Networks - A Systematic Introduction
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/rojas/neural/
Looks like a comprehensive volume covering the state of art in late 90s. That's also about the time I stopped following the domain. So I wonder if there have been any advances in terms of new models and topologies since then?
Official Google Blog: Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html
Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA - http://bit.ly/mNdrd [from http://twitter.com/hadhad/statuses/4038838588]
Found this: Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA: Shared by cec Wholly geek batman ... http://bit.ly/dTqYG [from http://twitter.com/kekil/statuses/4034854001]
"In this way, reCAPTCHA’s unique technology improves the process that converts scanned images into plain text, known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This technology also powers large scale text scanning projects like Google Books and Google News Archive Search. Having the text version of documents is important because plain text can be searched, easily rendered on mobile devices and displayed to visually impaired users. So we'll be applying the technology within Google not only to increase fraud and spam protection for Google products but also to improve our books and newspaper scanning process. That's why we're excited to welcome the reCAPTCHA team to Google, and we're committed to delivering the same high level of performance that websites using reCAPTCHA have come to expect. Improving the availability and accessibility of all the information on the Internet is really important to us, so we're looking forward to advancing this technology with the reCAPTCHA team."
I know I'm late to the game commenting on this one, but damn this kind of thing pisses me off. Can't we have just one thing that is cool on the internet without it getting acquired by Google or Yahoo? I'm not as anti-google as most, but all of a sudden reCAPTCHA feels exploitative. Brewster Kahle, where is the alternative for archive.org?
Reading: Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA http://bit.ly/141R6p [from http://twitter.com/sandroalberti/statuses/4057584396]
Google acquire reCAPTCHA - teaching computers to read - http://bit.ly/IT1DZ [from http://twitter.com/nick_b/statuses/4050051801]
Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to help protect more than 100,000 websites from spam and fraud.
Machine Language For Beginners
http://www.atariarchives.org/mlb/
An old book teaching the basics of assembly programming including explanations for the beginner of binary numbers etc.
スゴ本100: わたしが知らないスゴ本は、きっとあなたが読んでいる
http://dain.cocolog-nifty.com/myblog/2009/10/100-7590.html
銃・病原菌・鉄 「東大、京大、北大、広大の教師が新入生にオススメする100冊」の第一位。  「この本がスゴい2008」の第一位。  世界の富や権力は、なぜ現在あるような形で分配されてしまったのか? たとえば、なぜヨーロッパの人々がアフリカや南北アメリカ、オーストラリアを征服し、どうしてその逆ではないのか? この究極の問いをとことんまで追いかける。  その謎解きがスゴい。単に仮説を積み重ねてストーリーをつむぎだす「物語作家」ではなく、科学者が見た人類史であるところがミソなんだ。必ず客観的データによって検証を行っている。仮説を裏付けるエビデンスのひとつひとつは、炭素年代測定法やDNA解析を用いた科学的手法に裏付けられており、強い説得力を持っている。  数千~数万年単位の歴史を、猛スピードでさかのぼり、駆け下りる。大陸塊を横長・縦長で比較しようとする巨大視線を持つ一方で、たった16キロの海峡に経だれられた文化の断絶ポイントを示す。時間のスケールを自在にあやつり、Google Earth をグルグルまわす酩酊感と一緒。地球酔いしそうな人類史から明かされる「富の偏在」の謎――それは、驚くとともに納得できるだけの理由をもっているぞ。
The 10 Most Disturbing Books Of All Time
http://www.popcrunch.com/the-10-most-disturbing-books-of-all-time/
crazy books to read or not
HotPrints | Home
http://www.hotprints.com/
Affordable photo book printer now offers one free book per user per month, with a removable advertisement card to cover their costs.
Free photo books... interesting model: We have teamed up with select partners to sponsor one free book per month per customer, yes even the shipping and handling are free! Don't worry advertisements will NOT be on the same pages as your photos. All advertisements will be removable full page inserts. We are very very selective with our partners and will not include anything that is offensive. In fact we may include offers and brands that are very valuable to you. We also take your privacy very seriously and will not share any individual data with third parties. You will always have the option to pay for your books and we will not include any advertising. All offers from HotPrints limited are subject to change at any time without notification.
http://www.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.html
http://www.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.html
A free book on how statisticians think about data. Uses R programming language.
The book is intended as an upper level undergraduate or introductory graduate textbook in statistical thinking with a likelihood emphasis for students with a good knowledge of calculus and the ability to think abstractly. By "statistical thinking" is meant a focus on ideas that statisticians care about as opposed to technical details of how to put those ideas into practice. The book does contain technical details, but they are not the focus. By "likelihood emphasis" is meant that the likelihood function and likelihood principle are unifying ideas throughout the text.
Galileo Computing :: Linux – Das umfassende Handbuch - openbook
http://openbook.galileocomputing.de/linux/
Dieses umfassende Handbuch bietet Ihnen nahezu vollständiges Linux-Wissen. Von der Administration des Systems über die Shell bis hin zu Netzwerkkonfiguration, Sicherheitsthemen und einem ausführlichen BSD-Teil werden Sie nichts missen. Das Buch ist geeignet für Nutzer aller gängigen Linux-Distributionen.
Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles | Epicenter | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/
“The search results are extremely poor,” [...]. “Like nobody cares.” [...] “Google does get a lot of credit for putting it together and making it available,” [...] “But search capabilities are important for such a large collection of data. The archive’s value to the community is considerably reduced if it’s not conveniently searchable.” A year after Slashdot called attention to the bugs, the problems with the archive not only haven’t been fixed, but they aren’t reflected in the Google Groups “known issues” page. Asked if the bugs are documented anywhere, or if Google planned on repairing its library, a company spokesman was noncommittal. “We’re aware of some problems with the way search is working in Google Groups,” said Jason Freidenfelds, in an e-mail. “We’re always working to improve our products.” Templeton, who helped Google compile an index of historically significant Usenet articles when it first launched its archive, thinks Google’s neglect is a simple matter of economics.
"the rusting shell of Google Groups" ABANDONED FOR A REASON?
http://readingradar.com/
http://readingradar.com/
Sift through the New York Times bestseller lists and buy books.
From the New York Times Bestseller Lists
Top 10 New York Times Bestseller
Nice hack of NY Times/Amazon/YUI etc.
A mashup that combines NY Times bestseller list with title info from Amazon.com
10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
http://davidcancel.com/10-books-every-entrepreneur-should-read/
모든 기업가들이 꼭 읽어야 하는 열가지 책
50 Excellent Online Communities for Lifelong Learners - Learn-gasm
http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2009/50-excellent-online-communities-for-lifelong-learners/
Unresolvable
Elements of Statistical Learning: data mining, inference, and prediction. 2nd Edition.
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman (2008). Springer-Verlag. Full-text PDF is free.
free online book
@dataspora: "The Elements of Statistical Learning, the authoritative text on the subject, now free at authors' site http://bit.ly/2J8WNK (ht @johndcook)" (from http://twitter.com/dataspora/status/4847621837)
Book of Odds - The Odds of Everyday Life
http://www.bookofodds.com/
This is an interesting site focusing on odds and statistics.
Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/
Writing and reading — from newspapers to novels, academic reports to gossip magazines — are migrating ever faster to digital screens, like laptops, Kindles and cellphones.
Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading experience change, from retention to comprehension, depending on the medium?
What I’ve Earned (And Learned) From Writing “Beginning Ruby”
http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/
As the author of Beginning Ruby, I make money for every copy sold in print and electronic formats (as well as some miscellaneous income I’ll cover later). It’s not much money – but that wasn’t the motivation for writing the book. In this post I’m going to show you how it all works from my point of view including sales figures, pictures of my royalty statements, information about my advance, and similar gruesome stuff. There’s even a section at the end about how Apress pissed me off a bit (though I don’t regret the experience with them) and why I’m happy with you pirating my book if you so choose.
Nice summary of why you shouldn't give up your day job to write a technical book. The guy is wrong however in thinking he would make more money in giving the ebook away for free. It would be better to give a chapter away for free.
Amazon.com: Coders at Work (9781430219484): Peter Seibel: Books
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219483?ie=UTF8&tag=joelonsoftware&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1430219483
Inventor of
Designing Obama
http://www.designing-obama.com/
A book representing the art & design from the campaign for change.
Io9 2008 Year In Review: Best Science Fiction Books of 2008
http://io9.com/5111939/best-science-fiction-books-of-2008
Best of 2008 Science Fiction Books
Shouts & Murmurs: Subject: Our Marketing Plan : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/10/19/091019sh_shouts_weiner
funny cos it's true
The New Yorker
Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html
@mobilebooks Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science http://url4.eu/dPaG [from http://twitter.com/sbepstein/statuses/4986924979]
Rails in a Nutshell
http://rails-nutshell.labs.oreilly.com/index.html
Rails in a Nutshell is a concise introduction to Rails, an overview of commands and configurations, and a guide to the parts of Rails you’ll be using every day.
Internet Archive: A Future for Books -- BookServer
http://www.archive.org/bookserver/
Referenced in Chronicle Wired
The widespread success of digital reading devices has proven that the world is ready to read books on screens. As the audience for digital books grows, we can evolve from an environment of single devices connected to single sources into a distributed system where readers can find books from sources across the Web to read on whatever device they have. Publishers are creating digital versions of their popular books, and the library community is creating digital archives of their printed collections. BookServer is an open system to find, buy, or borrow these books, just like we use an open system to find Web sites.
The BookServer is a growing open architecture for vending and lending digital books over the Internet. Built on open catalog and open book formats, the BookServer model allows a wide network of publishers, booksellers, libraries, and even authors to make their catalogs of books available directly to readers through their laptops, phones, netbooks, or dedicated reading devices. BookServer facilitates pay transactions, borrowing books from libraries, and downloading free, publicly accessible books.
This would be awesome to install on all of the school servers as part of plan ceibal.
All The Developer’s Books You Ever Wanted | Jeez Tech
http://jeez.eu/2009/10/20/all-the-developers-books-you-ever-wanted/
Here is a big list of downloadable, programming related, books in PDF format for your everyday reference and advice. We tried to cover as many as we could think
list of downloadable, programming related, books in PDF format
Doctorow's Project: With a Little Help - 10/19/2009 - Publishers Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702526.html
Cory seems to understand the new publishing perspective from an author's point of view as well as anyone
Cory Doctorow kicks off a unique publishing experiment--and a monthly PW column
This makes Overclocked into a fine control for my little experiment. It is a good book. It sold well and was critically acclaimed. But it is solidly a midlist title, a short story collection published by a house turned upside down by bankruptcy. It will be the baseline against which I compare the earnings from With a Little Help. And those earnings will be diverse—like the musicians who've successfully self-produced albums in a variety of packages at a variety of price points (Radiohead, Trent Reznor, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Jonathan Coulton), I have set out to produce a book that can be had in a range of packages and at a range of price points from $0.00 to $10,000.
New publishing experiment by Cory @Doctorow http://tr.im/CxHw via @inkyelbows @bencrowder @1rick [from http://twitter.com/midnighthaircut/statuses/5046801028]
Nook, eBook Reader, eBook Device - Barnes & Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/
s WiFi a j touch displejom
Media packaging mashups
http://www.kottke.org/09/04/media-packaging-mashups
retro-style (Penguin, Saul Bass) movie and game "book" covers
SICP in Clojure
http://sicpinclojure.com/
This site exists to make it easier to use Clojure rather than Scheme while working through SICP.
This site exists to make it easier to use Clojure rather than Scheme while working through SICP. The folks behind SICP were kind enough to release it under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, which will allow me to annotate the text and adapt its source code and exercises to fit the Clojure language.
10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
http://davidcancel.com/10-books-every-entrepreneur-should-read/?awesm=2BfW&utm_campaign=twitterfeed&utm_medium=awe.sm-twitter&utm_source=&utm_content=twitterfeed
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15 Twitter Users Shaping the Future of Publishing
http://mashable.com/2009/10/22/twitter-publishing/
LitCharts.com | LitCharts Study Guides | The faster, downloadable alternative to SparkNotes
http://www.litcharts.com/
"Everything you need from a SparkNote - in just 10 pages" #delicious
study notes for books like Animal Farm, Jane Eyre, The Giver, etc.
LitCharts Study Guides The faster, downloadable alternative to SparkNotes
The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave
http://completewaveguide.com/
by Gina Trapani and Adam Pash
The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave
http://completewaveguide.com/guide/The_Complete_Guide_to_Google_Wave
The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes.
Guia de uso de Google Wave
Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave.
Gina Trapani is a force for good.
Applied Mathematical Programming
http://web.mit.edu/15.053/www/
This book is the main text for 15.053 Introduction to Optimization taught at MIT. To make the book available online, most chapters have been re-typeset. Chapters 6, 7 and 10 were not, but are still available (as direct scans of the original chapters).
Book on Optimization used for teaching in MIT
Applied Mathematical Programming by Bradley, Hax, and Magnanti (Addison-Wesley, 1977) This book is the main text for 15.053 Introduction to Optimization taught at MIT.
100 Essential Reads for the Lifelong Learner | Online School
http://onlineschool.net/2009/11/03/100-essential-reads-for-the-lifelong-learner/
"Whether you are just starting out in college or are a more experience learner with years under your belt, there is always more knowledge waiting to be discovered. One great way to do that is to read."
100 livros que precisam ser lidos antes de morrer
There is always more knowledge waiting to be discovered.
The Art of Community Now Available For Free Download | Art Of Community Online
http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/09/18/the-art-of-community-now-available-for-free-download/
@johnlsheridan: "RT @timoreilly: The Art of Community by @jonobacon available for free download under CC license: http://bit.ly/oXeUQ (JLS: good book)" (from http://twitter.com/johnlsheridan/status/5490330293)
When I started work on The Art of Community I was really keen that it should be a body of work that all communities have access to. My passion behind the book was to provide a solid guide to building, energizing and enabling pro-active, productive and enjoyable communities. I wanted to write a book that covered the major areas of community leadership, distilling a set of best practices and experiences, and illustrated by countless stories, anecdotes and tales.
A Story Before Bed
http://www.astorybeforebed.com/
Read a story for a child
Record yourself reading a book to your kids and then it can be played back online with the pages of the book while you're away or from a distance.
Fifty-Two Stories » with Cal Morgan
http://www.fiftytwostories.com/
short story website
stories
Wealthcare | The New Republic
http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/wealthcare-0
Jonathan Chait, 09/14/09, The New Republic takes AR seriously in a long art (c. 5,000 words?), ostensibly a review of Burns and Heller's books. Lousy article, but Chait gets some imp things right: says AR is different in regarding redistribution wrong, not in practical terms, but moral terms. But stresses that the moral issue is the virtuous and productive being sacrificed to the lazy and immoral. Says she has been very influential among the right.
On Ayn Rand's legacy and the American right: "Ayn Rand's novels tend to strike their readers with the power of revelation, and they are read less like fiction and more like self-help literature, like spiritual guidance. Again and again, readers would write Rand to tell her that their encounter with her work felt like having their eyes open for the first time in their lives... The likes of Gale Norton, George Gilder, Charles Murray, and many others have cited Rand as an influence. Rand acolytes such as Alan Greenspan and Martin Anderson have held important positions in Republican politics. "What she did--through long discussions and lots of arguments into the night--was to make me think why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral," attested Greenspan. In 1987, The New York Times called Rand the "novelist laureate" of the Reagan administration. Reagan's nominee for commerce secretary, C. William Verity Jr., kept a passage from Atlas Shrugged on his desk."
cyoa
http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/
choose your own adventure stories thoroughly visualized and diagrammed
choose your own adventure visualizations
Slick visualizations of choose your own adventure stories.
"When a world of new possibilities has just opened, it’s hard to find the will for restraint. But, in time, people scale back the more gratuitous uses of this sort of glitz, moving from what’s possible to what best suits the material." - analyzing the structure of "choose your own adventure" books
"13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project. all told i ended up cataloging a dozen books from the early-to-mid 80s, looking for patterns in their construction and in the paths made by different readers through them. these short, simple books had a surprisingly complicated structure with their interlocking pages & choices. as a kid the idea of writing one and keeping all those pages straight boggled my mind. what was lost on me at the time was that even a list of hundreds of page numbers can be comprehensible if it’s redrawn as a diagram. these days i feel like i approach everything that way. so here is my look back at an obsession from my past, using graphical obsessions of the present to guide the way." via http://etc.samizdat.cc/2009/11/the-rules-of-the-game
Visualizations of flow through Choose Your Own Adventure books.
The Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now And Save 20% | Events | Smashing Magazine
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/05/the-smashing-book-pre-order-now-and-save-20/
ance, a popular color, is taken in Western society to mean environmental consciousness. In China, a green hat could imply that a man’s wife is cheating on him. The color is sacred in the Islamic world, and it has significance in Catholicism. In some African countries, green represents the natural richness of Africa. It has also been associated with money, jealousy, growth, sickness, inexperience, evil, fertility, hope, youth and death. This is just one example of the cultural and psychological implications that color can have for your website’s audience.
from patrick
100 Useful Links for eBook Lovers - Online Courses
http://www.onlinecourses.org/2009/11/11/100-useful-links-for-ebook-lovers/
Links to various ebook web sites.
Comprehensive listing of: free ebook sites, ebook reader sites, about ebooks sites, audio and mobile sites, business and education sites, twitter sites, poetry and kids sites and misc..
Kindle for PC
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000426311
kindle の本をPCで読める
Top 5 Must-Read Social Media Books
http://mashable.com/2009/11/13/social-media-book-review/
So you want to get up to speed fast on the latest social media thinking. Maybe give your colleague, boss or friend a dose of new social strategies. But where to start? Amazon nicely suggests 44,444 titles that they would be delighted to overnight direct to your bookshelf. Ummm, no thanks. Fortunately, you’ve got your own social media fairy right here. (Hi!) We’ve already done the hard part for you, and have narrowed down those 44,444 titles to 5 killer must-reads that can get you on the road to social media stardom. Abracadabra!
A mudança de Comunicação nas Empresas. Esta história é magicamente formatado para 2 tipos de pessoas: os leitores e espectadores. Olhe para cima para o vídeo, ou desloque-se para o texto. Magic. Você vai aprender porque confiança é a nova moeda, de Chris Brogan Smith e Julien, como a revolução da mídia social "tem transformado o megafone em torno" de Tara Hunt, os dois pilares do sucesso de mídia social de Mitch Joel, porque você precisa trabalhar o seu rosto largo de Gary Vaynerchuk e, por último, os detalhes de algumas das ferramentas mais eficazes para fora lá para crescer seu negócio e marca pessoal com Tamar Weinberg. Essas idéias são 5 (quase!) Tudo que você precisa para criar e executar um poderoso jogo de meios de comunicação social-plano. Let's go
read social book must
networked | Main
http://networkedbook.org/
Livro colaborativo composto de capítulos escritos diversos autores sobre a arte em rede. Os comentários em um capítulo ou em cada parágrafo pode sugerir a atualização do conteúdo.
A networked book about networked art
“A networked book is an open book designed to be written, edited and read in a networked environment.” — Institute for the Future of the Book We invite you to comment, revise and translate these chapters. Networked has been designed to incorporate your ideas into the existing chapters. Patrick Lichty’s chapter, Art in the Age of DataFlow: Narrative, Authorship, and Indeterminacy, is a wiki. If you want to change or add to it, simply click on the “Edit Page” link at the top/bottom of every page. The text will appear in an editable window. When you save your changes, the page will immediately reflect them. Readers can then compare the various versions of each page, as one can on Wikipedia.
A networked book about networked art “A networked book is an open book designed to be written, edited and read in a networked environment.” — Institute for the Future of the Book
10 reasons to buy a Kindle 2… and 10 reasons not to
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/25/10-reasons-to-buy-a-kindle-2-and-10-reasons-not-to/
Kindle still needs a lot of work for it to become more efficient for students (where they can get their maximum sales)
Ha! "7. Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take off and landing. You can’t explain that it’s epaper and uses no current. You just can’t. It’s like explaining heaven to bears."
comments on kindle use in education april 7
Computational Semantics with Functional Programming
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/cs/
Preziosissima risorsa.
This book is on applications of logic in the semantic analysis of language.
SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,00.html
""in cultural history, the list has prevailed over and over again. It is by no means merely an expression of primitive cultures. A very clear image of the universe existed in the Middle Ages, and there were lists. A new worldview based on astronomy predominated in the Renaissance and the Baroque era. And there were lists. And the list is certainly prevalent in the postmodern age. It has an irresistible magic. … We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die. … we believe that we are able to see more in them. A person contemplating a painting feels a need to open the frame and see what things look like to the left and to the right of the painting. This sort of painting is truly like a list, a cutout of infinity.""
via damon/jeff s
"The Vertigo of Lists"
Italian polymath Umberto Eco: "I like lists for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia."
"...how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries."
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you [dive into mark]
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/10/19/the-point
I was about to write “gives third parties the right,” until I realized that there are no third parties because there are no second parties.
Just a bunch of helpful links, books, and pages. For those days when you ask, "How Can I Become A Programmer" : programming
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a543l/just_a_bunch_of_helpful_links_books_and_pages_for/
A bit of wheat in the comments.
The 100 Best Books of the Decade - Times Online
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article6914181.ece
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz is in "The 100 Best Books of the Decade - @TheTimes http://j.mp/3ZYLo9
100 The Position by Meg Wolitzer (2005) An hilarious, serious novel about sex and love and family.
100 Free Audio Books You Should Have Read By Now – Online Degree Programs.org: Top Online Degrees
http://onlinedegreeprograms.org/blog/2009/100-free-audio-books-you-should-have-read-by-now/
Books you want to read
downloads de audio book
cyoa
http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/#/_
As a child of the 80s, the Choose Your Own Adventure books were a fixture of my rainy afternoons. My elementary school library kept a low, fairly unmaintained-looking shelf of them hidden in one of its back corners. Whether this non-marquee placement was an attempt by the librarians to deemphasize the books in favor of ‘serious’ (children’s) literature or was simply my good luck I still haven’t worked out. But it meant there was a place that I could retreat to and dive into unfamiliar worlds without distraction.
Amazing website dedicated to choose your own adventure books
In the story, your concord flight is interrupted when you are beamed aboard a nearby spacecraft trolling the universe for intelligent life. Once aboard you discover your new captors, the U-TY, are interested in keeping you around only to the extent that you can help them find Ultima, the ‘planet of paradise’. The planet’s location is cloaked in mystery and you are only told that it’s a place that cannot be reached ‘by making a choice or following directions’. However this is all foreshadowing for when the reader finally becomes frustrated in the apparently impossible quest and begins flipping through the book hunting for that ending. In fact not choosing is the only way to reach Ultima. The branch diagram for UFO 54-40 is unique in that it has one ending – the Ultima ending – which is completely disconnected from the rest of the story. It exists as an island, unreachable through choices but discoverable thanks to the random access nature of the book.
The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online - Free books online - io9
http://io9.com/5409015/the-best-places-to-find-your-next-free-book-online
So, have you bought an ebook reader? I keep thinking about maybe doing that someday, but it's so expensive. . . I'm waiting for someone to tell me why I can't keep living without one.
7 Keys to Reading Faster | Think Simple Now » 7 Keys to Reading Faster
http://thinksimplenow.com/productivity/7-keys-to-reading-faster/
7 Keys to Reading Faster | Think Simple Now » 7 Keys to Reading Faster
Candidly written lifestyle blog on finding clarity, motivation, creativity and personal happiness. The writing blends abstract spirituality and practical personal productivity.
The Uncollected Stories of JD Salinger
http://www.deadcaulfields.com/UncollectedList.html
Aside from his Nine Stories, JD Salinger published twenty-two stories in various magazines which remain uncollected. Several attempts have been made to compile these stories together but have met stiff resistance by the author. Spanning his literary career between the years 1940-1965, these stories display changes in both the author's style and message. While some are plainly of commercial quality, most are serious works containing an expansive gift of enlightenment and self-examination: that very-satisfying "Salinger moment".
JD Salinger Uncollected Stories
Why E-Books Look So Ugly | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/e-book-design/
As books make the leap from cellulose and ink to electronic pages, some editors worry that too much is being lost in translation. Typography, layout, illustrations and carefully thought-out covers are all being reduced to a uniform, black-on-gray template that looks the same whether you’re reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or the Federalist Papers.
30 Must Have WebDesign Books In Your Christmas Wishlist | Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/development/webdesign-must-have-books-christmas-wishlist/
A Reading Guide To Becoming A Better Developer | The Inquisitive Coder – Davy Brion's Blog
http://davybrion.com/blog/2009/11/a-reading-guide-to-becoming-a-better-developer/
Lista de libros sobre programación que merece la pena tener
Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly | Gear Diary
http://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/19/kindles-drm-rears-its-ugly-head-and-it-is-ugly/
I love my Amazon Kindle. I love reading with it, I love how light it is, and I love the battery life. I also love the fact that it automatically syncs with the Amazon Kindle application on my iPhone and iPod touch. That means any book will open to the last page read regardless of the device last used. it is an amazing bit of technology that makes reading books across multiple platforms beyond simple. It’s a perfect situation — right? Well, it’s an almost perfect situation. This afternoon I discovered a huge Achilles heel in the whole Amazon Kindle environment.
Edge: 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD —  By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/goldstein09/goldstein09_index.html
Introduction by John Brockman "What is this stuff, you ask one another," says the narrator in Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, "and how can it still be kicking around, given how much we already know?"
There's an excerpt from novel here, but the important part is the non-fiction appendix analyzing and refuting the actual arguments for God.
How Twilight Works - The Oatmeal -
http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight
A few weeks ago I had the miserable experience of reading Twilight. A friend bought it for me and I took it with me to read on a long flight from Seattle to Houston. I knew it was going to be crappy, but I thought it would be a guilty pleasure kind of crappy - where you know it's bad but you still get enjoyment out of it. I actually managed to power through around 400 pages until I gave up and started reading Sky Mall. I've been seeing Twilight everywhere lately, especially with Vampire Teens II New Moon's release, so I thought I'd break down why chicks go apeshit for it.
"If you're male and you like Twilight, you're gay. I don't mean that in the derogatory sense, I mean it in the "you want to put your testicles against another man's testicles while gripping handfuls of chesthair" kind of way." /via @seldo
"If you're male and you like Twilight, you're gay. I don't mean that in the derogatory sense, I mean it in the 'you want to put your testicles against another man's testicles while gripping handfuls of chesthair' kind of way."
Built In Book Cases
http://www.instructables.com/id/Built-In-Book-Cases/
10 Power Tools for Lifelong Learners | Open Culture
http://www.openculture.com/2009/12/10_power_tools_for_lifelong_learners.html
These collections are all free, and can be downloaded to your computers and mp3 players. When you add it all together, you will find thousands of hours of free educational content here from quality sources.
Every now and then, we like to remind readers of the audio/video resources that Open Culture makes available to lifelong learners. These collections are all
100 Notable Books of 2009 - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/100-notable-books-of-2009-gift-guide/list.html
Glyde: Simply buy and sell your DVDs, CDs, video games, and books
http://glyde.com/
Simply buy and sell your dvds, cds, games, and books
E M P T Y L A
http://www.emptyla.com/
同じコンセプトで東京バージョンがあったな。
A great photo journal of an empty Los Angeles.
Images of LA city streets and well known locations...eerily devoid of the people who would normally inhabit it. Logue delivers a literal interpretation of his title: a Los Angeles devoid of inhabitants—no freeway traffic jams, cars, crowded sidewalks or, really, any people at all. Instead, the city has been stripped bare to its concrete bones, creating haunting and eerily empty canyons, playgrounds and beaches. The photos were made over a period of four years, and perhaps it won’t come as a surprise that Logue works for L.A.’s biggest industry: the movies.
20 Libros gratis sobre Social Media y Marketing en Internet | Nativo Digital
http://www.nativodigital.cl/2009/08/20-libros-gratis-sobre-social-media-y-marketing-en-internet/
Compilación de ebooks gratuitos sobre social media y marketing
O Livreiro: a comunidade para quem gosta de livro
http://www.conhecaolivreiro.com.br/home/
a comunidade para quem gosta de livro
Rede social sobre livros , leitura e afins... muito interessante!
community based site about literature and books.
Towel Day - Celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams
http://www.towelday.org/
the official site for towel day
Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.
毛巾日
Ok, I saw this mentioned and I knew it had something to do with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but couldn't figure out exactly what.
Book Marketing
http://www.tribalauthor.com/
WTF?
Has a manifesto on how to build a platform for a best-selling book
<p>This online book marketing manifesto is being offered to you as a vehicle to:</p><p>Open your eyes to the massive change that’s happening in the world of book marketing<br />Bust a lot of myths, expose scams and stop you from throwing thousands of dollars away<br />Help you understand how to get the biggest advance possible or self-publish and [...]</p>
mostly applicable to domain specific tech books but interesting to think how this would apply to fiction and non-fiction authorsaik
<p>It’s an amazing dream…<br />You wake up at 2:00am with an idea. A story, a vision for a book. You’ve been writing, journaling, maybe even blogging for years. Pen to paper, fingers to keys…it’s in your blood. You’re genetically compelled to craft literary magic. But, now. Oh now. You’ve finally got the big idea!<br />The one that’s [...]</p>
How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/
Imagine a world in which all copies of once-censored books like Candide, The Call of the Wild, and Ulysses had been permanently destroyed at the time of the censoring and could not be studied or enjoyed after subsequent decision-makers lifted the ban.
Kindle owners awoke to discover that Amazon had reached into their devices & remotely removed copies of George Orwell's 1984 & Animal Farm. Amazon explained that the books had been mistakenly published, & it gave customers a full refund. It turns out that Orwell wasn't the first author to get flushed down the Kindle's memory hole. In June, fans of Ayn Rand suffered the same fate—Amazon removed Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, & The Virtue of Selfishness, with an explanation that it had "recently discovered a problem" with the titles. & some customers have complained of the same experience with Harry Potter books. Amazon says the Kindle versions of all these books were illegal. Someone uploaded bootlegged copies using the Kindle Store's self-publishing system, & Amazon was only trying to look after publishers' intellectual property. The Orwell incident was too rich with irony to escape criticism, however. Amazon was forced to promise that it will no longer delete its customers' books.
Kindle Issues - Censoring, Monitoring, etc.
You Can Negotiate Anything * Get Rich Slowly
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/12/08/you-can-negotiate-anything/
英語上達完全マップを10ヶ月やってみた
http://kanzenmap.nomaki.jp/
これは実体験に基づく英語上達のノウハウである
すげえ.
単語の増やし方は参考になる。
すっごい努力家だな・・・
Neil Gaiman's Journal: Entitlement issues...
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html
another ex-American Airlines flyer
ha ha ha
fan entitlement for authors writing series
NOT YOUR BITCH
Neil Gaiman responds to a reader's inquiry about author George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series, and the question of whether it's realistic to have demands on a writer for when their next book will be published.
"George R.R. Martin is not your b****" A succinct castigation of fans who think that they are owed something by the people whose work they follow.
Ask Proggit: Recommender a compsci paper for me to read this weekend : programming
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9220o/ask_proggit_recommender_a_compsci_paper_for_me_to/
I've tried to span as many subjects as possible to have a little something for everyone while limiting myself to foundational papers that have had a lasting impact on the field and are also highly readable. Some of the people (Chomsky, Shannon, Metropolis, Ulam) represented here might not consider themselves computer scientists but the papers I've included have been so important that they cannot be left out. I admit a few papers may seem like idiosyncratic picks due to my particular interest in certain areas like computer graphics and computational dynamics. There are several important papers I couldn't include due to an absence of freely available copies, e.g. Rissanen's Generalized Kraft Inequality and Arithmetic Coding.
I am looking for something clever or thought provoking that doesn't depend on too much background knowledge, and is easy to read without too much formalism/maths.
Recommender a compsci paper for me to read this weekend
Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school? - Yahoo! Answers
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoCt3NHGwM8BxD2H1669H3_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090305151758AA7dWwd
Let me explain. I go to a private school that …
I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we're not allowed to read. I was absolutely appalled, because a large number of the books were classics and others that are my favorites. One of my personal favorites, The Catcher in the Rye, was on the list, so I decided to bring it to school to see if I would really get in trouble. Well... I did but not too much. Then (surprise!) a boy in my English class asked if he could borrow the book, because he heard it was very good AND it was banned! This happened a lot and my locker got to overflowing with the banned books, so I decided to put the unoccupied locker next to me to a good use. I now have 62 books in that locker, about half of what was on the list. I took care only to bring the books with literary quality.
Anyway, I now operate a little mini-library that no one has access to but myself. Practically a real library, because I keep an inventory log and give people due dates and everything. I would be in so much trouble if I got caught, but I think it's the right thing to do because before I started, almost no kid at school but myself took an active interest in reading! Now not only are all the kids reading the banned books, but go out of their way to read anything they can get their hands on. So I'm doing a good thing, right? ... I think that people should have open minds. Most of the books were banned because they contained information that opposed Catholisism.
Dievča, ktoré sa nezmierilo so zoznamom zakázanej literatúry na súkromnej škole a v skrinke na oblečenie spravila ilegálnu knižnicu. Spolužiaci sa na to tak namotali, že čítajú jak draci. Rešpekt najväčší.
was all over the lib blogs a few months ago
Флибуста | Книжное братство
http://flibusta.net/
Флибуста - независимый библиотечный ресурс. Как и в любой библиотеке просьба соблюдать чистоту, порядок и спокойствие. Здесь читают и работают хорошие люди. Библиотека действует по принципу вики. Это означает, что добавление книг, авторов и любой другой информации производится пользователями. Администрация содержимым библиотеки принципиально не занимается.
Флибуста - независимый библиотечный ресурс
20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade - Books - io9
http://io9.com/5423847/20-best-science-fiction-books-of-the-decade
최근 10년간 SF소설 시장에서 눈부신 활약을 보였던 20권의 책 선정(해리포터 시리즈, 시간여행자의 아내 등등). 2009년 12월 11일자 <자료제공:io9>
May December Home: Invisible Bookshelves
http://maydecemberhome.blogspot.com/2009/05/invisible-bookshelves.html
You've all seen these invisible bookshelves, right?
Display | Modern Graphic Design Collection and Bookstore
http://www.thisisdisplay.org/
Nick’s Top User Experience Books | Blog | Nick Finck | UX/IA Pro, Speaker, and Community Cultivator.
http://www.nickfinck.com/blog/entry/nicks_top_user_experience_books
Liste wertvoller Usability-Werke
35 Websites For Free Ebooks Download
http://www.smashapps.org/2009/12/35-websites-for-free-ebooks-download.html
E Book Downloading
start [Bkrpr Wiki]
http://bkrpr.org/doku.php
Easy DIY book scanner.
An open source book scanner project.
"BookLiberator is a set of free software and hardware to digitize books: it lets you photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book. The resulting images can be processed with free, open source software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats." Imagine a plexilglass box, two cameras, and a stand.
BookLiberator is a set of free software and hardware that helps you digitize books.
This is the home page and the documentation wiki of BookLiberator. BookLiberator is a set of free software and hardware that helps you digitize books. Some of our hardware designs make it easy to photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book. Other designs allow you to remove the binding so the pages can be dropped into a sheet-fed scanner. Whichever method you use, the resulting images can be processed with our software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats.
BookLiberator is a set of free software and hardware that helps you digitize books
Free your text, DIY-style!
book liberator -- diy book scanning device using two digital cameras
far simpler book scan design.
Learning Haskell through Category Theory, and Adventuring in Category Land: Like Flatterland, Only About Categories « Benjamin L. Russell’s Adventures in Programming Language Theory Wonderland
http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/learning-haskell-through-category-theory-and-adventuring-in-category-land-like-flatterland-only-about-categories/
, I hadn’t found an appropriate publication on category theory that addressed the subject at the proper pace,
Arrow, Structures and Functors
The FP Global Thinkers Book Club | Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/28/global_thinkers_books_club
Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example
http://www.railstutorial.org/
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial Book * Thorough introduction to Ruby on Rails * A book-in-progress * Up-to-date with the latest version of Rails * Full text available online * Associated screencast series coming soon
Gifts for User Experience Geeks 2009 | Blog | Nick Finck | UX/IA Pro, Speaker, and Community Cultivator.
http://www.nickfinck.com/blog/entry/gifts_for_user_experience_geeks_2009/
gifts for UX geeks like Information Architects, Usability Specialists, Interaction Designers, and even Web Designers.
http://www.nickfinck.com/blog/entry/gifts_for_user_experience_geeks_2009/ - I want the Konigi Wireframe Sketch Book! http://konigi.com/store/product/wireframe-sketch-book-small
UX product picks for 2009
Matthias Rath - steal this chapter - Bad Science
http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/
The story of Matthias Rath, vitamin king, and the damage he wrought in promoting consumption of his products over antivirals of proven effectiveness in AIDS-wracked South Africa.
The chapter missing from ‘Bad Science’ due to Rath suing Goldacre at the time.
The doctor will sue you now
Quackery and exploitation, with deadly consequences.
a very serious story about the dangers of pseudoscience
C Craft - Preface
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/index.html
Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 1) - Errol Morris Blog - NYTimes.com
http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/bamboozling-ourselves-part-1/
Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 1)
"To be sure, the Van Meegeren story raises many, many questions. Among them: what makes a work of art great? Is it the signature of (or attribution to) an acknowledged master? Is it just a name? Or is it a name implying a provenance? With a photograph we may be interested in the photographer but also in what the photograph is of. With a painting this is often turned around, we may be interested in what the painting is of, but we are primarily interested in the question: who made it? Who held a brush to canvas and painted it? Whether it is the work of an acclaimed master like Vermeer or a duplicitous forger like Van Meegeren — we want to know more."
Han van Meegeren
Long OpEd piece on a fake Vermeer and Nazi ties in Amsterdam
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery Presenting the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science
Gray
In The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, the collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized.
Free eBook of essays on "Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery" : "Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets."
10 Must-Read eBooks for Social Media Lovers
http://mashable.com/2009/12/21/must-read-ebooks/
The Noughtie List: the 2000s in Review (kottke.org)
http://kottke.org/plus/noughtie-list/
Compilation des listes des années 2000 (Kottke)
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Audio
http://www.therestisnoise.com/audio/
Jamie Conkleton Graphic Design
http://www.conkleton.co.uk/
Graphic Designer ! from UK !
graphic, design, student, typography, falmouth, graduate, minimalism, print, editrorial, branding, jamie, conkleton, congleton, art, direction jamie, conkleton, graphic, design jamie, conkleton.co.uk
Nice bicycle mag - nice typography
The Believer - Donald Barthelme’s Syllabus
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200310/?read=barthelme_syllabus
"A NON-READER PURSUES A LITERARY EDUCATION ARMED WITH NOTHING BUT THE DON’S TOP EIGHTY-ONE."
There was a time when I fought against an impatience with reading, concealing, with partisanship, the fissures in my education. I confused difficulty with duplicity, and that which didn’t come easily, I often scorned. Then, in my last year of college in Gainesville, Florida, I was given secondhand a list of eighty-one books, the recommendations of Donald Barthelme to his students. Barthelme’s only guidance, passed on by Padgett Powell, one of Barthelme’s former students at the University of Houston and my teacher at the time, was to attack the books “in no particular order, just read them,” which is exactly what I, in my confident illiteracy, resolved to do.
DONALD BARTHELME
81 new reading ideas.
Readers by Author « Lauren Leto
http://laurenleto.wordpress.com/readers-by-author/
“Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author.” Might not have linked to this, except she has me pegged. (I’m a boy and I don’t read.)
via brandon
"Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author."
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author
Invent with Python
http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/
New York - "Off With Those Pants": Bill O'Reilly Seduces You in Clips From His Dirty Audiobook - Runnin' Scared - Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/03/off_with_those.php
"Clearly he preferred oral sex... to oral hygeine."
Those Who Trespass audiobook Author: Bill O'Reilly Publisher: Random House Audio Date: 2001 (book was published in 1998) Discovered at: Goodwill
Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines - Apple tablet books - Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/5370252/apple-tablet-aiming-to-redefine-newspapers-textbooks-and-magazines
Steve Jobs said people don't read any more. But Apple is in talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a "new device." And they're not just going for e-books and mags. They're aiming to redefine print.
Ebooks - mic-ro.co(s)m
http://mic-ro.com/informatik/ebooks.html
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SITES!! many many many OF THEM!!!
25 CSS books you must beg for, borrow, or steal! | Uncoverr
http://www.uncoverr.com/the-25-very-best-css-books/
Ever feel overwhelmed with the immense amount of choices of books when trying to learn CSS? Well, we’re here to help. we’ve compiled a list of the 25 very best CSS books in no particular order.
Story Something: Create personalized children's stories instantly.
http://www.storysomething.com/
Create personalized children's stories instantly.
6 Books Every Programmer Should Own
http://repeatgeek.com/tools/6-books-every-programmer-should-own/
25 Essential Books About Money: Financial Wisdom from Your Public Library * Get Rich Slowly
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/06/11/25-essential-books-about-money-financial-wisdom-from-your-public-library/
provides
BibliOdyssey: Victorian Infographics
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/12/victorian-infographics.html
collection of infographics from Victorian era books/publications
Victorian Infographics -- animals, time, and space from the Victorians. It's beautiful, it's meaningful, it must be infoengravings.
BibliOdyssey: Victorian Infographics design, illustration, visualization, history, science, graphics, books, maps, science, vintage, infographics
Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/05/grok-this-forget-the-business-books-go-sci-fi-to-stoke-your-imagination/
science-fiction books - education !!
READ THESE FOR INSPIRATION ASAP
If you really want to stoke your imagination, spend all those hours reading science fiction instead. Every good entrepreneur needs a certain amount of imagination to envision the future. Science fiction books tend to keep the imaginative juices flowing. And the better ones have moral or other life lessons that are a lot more fun to read entwined with the drama of an unfolding story that involves spaceships, time travel or other worlds.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
sci-fi meets business
The Master of Money
http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=12ef5554-1023-4be9-ad93-681003b280ef
"There has never really been a bad time in the last fifty years to be Warren Buffett, but just now would seem to be less favorable than most. If Buffett still measures his life by the book value per share of Berkshire Hathaway, then for the first time in forty years he must feel like a wasting asset. His share price is still off more than 40 percent from its highs, underperforming even the S&P 500. He railed against derivatives as weapons of mass destruction, and now turns out to have been sitting on a $68 billion pile of credit default swaps and exotic put options on various stock market indexes. And having vowed never again to become entangled in a big Wall Street investment bank, he has gone and sunk $10 billion into Goldman Sachs, a virtual re-enactment of his investment in Salomon Brothers--cash for reputation. The difference this time is that he has gotten himself a sweeter deal than not merely ordinary shareholders, but also the U.S. Treasury."
review by michael lewis of Snowball. a biography of Warren Buffet
Article on Warren Buffet.
Amazon.com: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life: Neil Strauss: Books
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060898771?ie=UTF8&tag=offsitoftimfe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060898771
Amazon.com: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life: Neil Strauss: Books
XXXL: Books: The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/20/090720crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=all
instead of sweetened beverages, the average American drank water, Finkelstein calculates, he or she would weigh fifteen pounds less.
Good article on the rising rate of obesity in the US and around the world.
"The human body is “mismatched” to the human situation. “We evolved on the savannahs of Africa,” Power and Schulkin write. “We now live in Candyland.” "
A food scientist for Frito-Lay relates how the company is seeking to create “a lot of fun in your mouth” with products like Nacho Cheese Doritos, which meld “three different cheese notes” with lots of salt and oil. Another product-development expert talks about how she is trying to “unlock the code of craveability,” and a third about the effort to “cram as much hedonics as you can in one dish.” Kessler invents his own term—“conditioned hypereating”—to describe how people respond to these laboratory-designed concoctions. Foods like Cinnabons and Starbucks’ Strawberries & Crème Frappuccinos are, he maintains, like drugs:
"Early humans compensated for the energy used in their heads by cutting back on the energy used in their guts; as man’s cranium grew, his digestive tract shrank. This forced him to obtain more energy-dense foods than his fellow-primates were subsisting on, which put a premium on adding further brain power. The result of this self-reinforcing process was a strong taste for foods that are high in calories and easy to digest; just as it is natural for gorillas to love leaves, it is natural for people to love funnel cakes. In America today, obtaining calories is very nearly effortless; as Power and Schulkin observe, with a few dollars it’s possible to go to the grocery store and purchase enough sugar or vegetable oil to fulfill the average person’s energy requirements for a week. The result is what’s known as the 'mismatch paradigm.' The human body is 'mismatched' to the human situation. 'We evolved on the savannahs of Africa,' Power and Schulkin write. 'We now live in Candyland.'"
One of the most comprehensive data sets available about Americans—how tall they are, when they last visited a dentist, what sort of cereal they eat for breakfast, whether they have to pee during the night, and, if so, how often—comes from a series of studies conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Participants are chosen at random, interviewed at length, and subjected to a battery of tests in special trailers that the C.D.C. hauls around the country. The studies, known as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, began during the Eisenhower Administration and have been carried out periodically ever since.
Discover Literary Oddities in the Weird Book Room on AbeBooks
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/weird/index.shtml
Weird Book Room
i own one of these!
Life Inc: The Book
http://lifeincorporated.net/
got mugged on Christmas Eve. I was in front of my Brooklyn apartment house taking out the trash when a man pulled a gun and told me to empty my pockets. I gave him my money, wallet, and cell phone. But then—remembering something I’d seen in a movie about a hostage negotiator—I begged him to let me keep my medical- insurance card. If I could humanize myself in his perception, I figured, he’d be less likely to kill me. He accepted my argument about how hard it would be for me to get “care” without it, and handed me back the card. Now it was us two against the establishment, and we made something of a deal: in exchange for his mercy, I wasn’t to report him—even though I had plainly seen his face. I agreed, and he ran off down the street. I foolishly but steadfastly stood by my side of the bargain, however coerced it may have been, for a few hours. As if I could have actually entered into a binding contract at gunpoint.
How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back
By: Douglas Rushkoff
Descarga libros gratis en PlanetaLibro
http://planetalibro.net/ebooks/eam/index.php
Free ebooks
Kindle Content Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/kindle-writing.html
How do you design your content for a Kindle?
Top 5 Books for Entrepreneurs from 2009
http://knowledgeissocial.com/top-5-books-for-entrepreneurs-from-2009/
Outside of building companies, reading has been one of my daily passions since I was a young child. Each year, I attempt to read more books than the previous year. This year I read 146. The following books were the five that made the most impact and immediate improvement on my performance as an entrepreneur.
Book | Digging into WordPress
http://digwp.com/book/
There is much to learn about the World’s most popular publishing platform. From your first steps of learning about WordPress all the way through maintaining a site throughout the years, this book is packed with truly practical information.
Book on WP. Came recommended by John Saddington (@human3rror).
This looks like a great option for learning more about WordPress.
COMPRAR LIBRO DE WORDPRESS
10-things-not-to-buy-in-2010: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108504/10-things-not-to-buy-in-2010
Coursesmart.com
Interesting, I wonder if these predictions will come true?
10 yrs. ago, most homes relied on dial-up connections to get to the web and iPods, cool flat-screen televisions and the Nintendo Wii didn't exist.
[[Category:Book]]
http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php?title=Special:Ask&offset=0&limit=500&q=%5B%5BCategory%3ABook%5D%5D&po=%3FAuthor%0A
Franc
100 Quotes Every Geek Should Know | GeekDad | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/01/100-quotes-every-geek-should-know/
Blio eReader
http://blioreader.com/
The FREE Blio eReader software is the new touchstone for the presentation of electronic books & magazines. Stunning, full-color pages come alive in brilliant 3D. Even image-rich books are now at your digital fingertips — because Blio preserves a book’s original layout, fonts, and graphics.
Books, the way they were intended. Highlighting, underlining, and annotating help emphasize information in your mind. insert text, drawing, voice, image or video notes directly into your content. read-aloud feature
A Photo Student › Photo Writings
http://www.aphotostudent.com/photo-readings/?utm_source=Photojojo+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5790e2ad9b-Photo_Philosophy1_5_2010&utm_medium=email
A Photo Student › Photo Writings - essays by Benjamin, Barthes, Sontag, Foucault, etc.
The Adventures of James Pomerantz in Photo MFA Land
The Smashing Book Is Released: Buy Now! - Smashing Magazine
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/03/smashing-book-its-out-now/
Here it is, the brand new Smashing Book. Announced several months ago in a couple of posts, it has finally arrived. You can buy the Smashing Book right now. And in case you didn’t know, it’s available here exclusively. The book is available and can be shipped right away.
Web Style, design, and typography
Here it is, the brand new Smashing Book. Announced several months ago in a couple of posts, it has finally arrived. You can buy the Smashing Book right now. And in...
But the funny fact is that I was at my local coffee shop and a college girl had the book in hand!
Letters of Note: Slaughterhouse Five
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/slaughterhouse-five.html
vonnegut on slaughterhouse five : "On about February 14th the Americans came over, followed by the R.A.F. their combined labors killed 250,000 people in twenty-four hours and destroyed all of Dresden -- possibly the world's most beautiful city. But not me. "
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s letter home describe the real-life Slaughterhouse Five scenario of his POW internment during WWII.
Measuring Measures: Learning About Statistical Learning
http://measuringmeasures.blogspot.com/2010/01/learning-about-statistical-learning.html
Seth's Blog: How to be a packager
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/06/how-to-be-a-book-packager.html
For fifteen years, I was a book packager. It has nothing to do with packaging and a bit more to do with books, but it's a great gig and there are useful lessons, because there are dozens of industries just waiting for you to do something like this. Let me explain:
二十歳までに出会っておけばよかった10冊 - 技術教師ブログ
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/showgotch/20090910/1252539333
brain harvest
http://www.brainharvestmag.com/
story blog promo'd by the starship sofa
ebook, short story, fiction
George Orwell: free web books, online
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/
Obras do George Orwelll grátis pra download.
Textbook Price Comparison
http://www.textbookpricecomparison.com/
Search by ISBN, Author, Title, Keywords.
Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Media-Morphosis: How the Internet Will Devour, Transform, or Destroy Your Favorite Medium
http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=171555&
Let me start by saying that I like newspapers. And let me say further that, no matter how much I like them, they just might not have a future.The Internet chews up media and spits them out again. Sometimes they get more robust. Sometimes they get more profitable. Sometimes they die.
Media-Morphosis: How the Internet Will Devour, Transform, or Destroy Your Favorite Medium
the future of media, opera, poetry, cory doctorow of boing-boing
In Which We Count Down The 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time - Home - This Recording
http://thisrecording.com/today/2010/1/18/in-which-we-count-down-the-100-greatest-science-fiction-or-f.html
Film, Television, Books, Music, Art, Poetry, Celebrity, Sex, Science, Fashion
Curious Pages
http://curiouspages.blogspot.com/
"recommended inappropriate books for children"
recommended inappropriate reading for children
"Inappropriate Children's Books"
Thoughtcrime Experiments
http://thoughtcrime.crummy.com/2009/
AudioOwl - Free Audio Books - Download mp3 and iPod format today!
http://www.audioowl.com/
free audio books to download
Top 10 Tools for Better Reading, Online and Off - Reading - Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/5452100/top-10-tools-for-better-reading-online-and-off
Top 10 ferramentas para uma melhor leitura, Online and Off
10 formas de mejorara la lectura
Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Places to Find Free eBooks
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/01/seven-places-to-find-free-ebooks.html
Every year schools around the world spend thousands of dollars on textbooks that are often outdated by the end of their first year in the classroom. Ebooks, many of them free, can represent huge savings for schools over purchasing textbooks. Here are seven places that you can find free ebooks.
Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Places to Find Free eBooks Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freetech4teachers.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fseven-places-to-find-free-ebooks.html
Free Technology for Teachers: lists 7 places to find free ebooks for downloading.
50 Cool Search Engines for Serious Readers | Online Colleges
http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2010/01/18/50-cool-search-engines-for-serious-readers/
Cf Titre
Jeff Erickson's Algorithms Course Materials
http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/teaching/algorithms/
Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple | Fast Company
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/137/the-evolution-of-amazon.html
Penenberg, Adam (Fast Company, Julio 2009)
Amazon aims to disintermediate publishers by working directly w/ authors
Turning the Pages - History of Science - The Royal Society
http://www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages/
3D virtual browsing. Interface it a bit clunky, but I heart me some virtual books.
Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. We hope that these will give you a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within our collections. We will be adding more items soon. Launch Turning the Pages™ 2.0 * Full 3D version - high end, full functionality. (Need help?) * Silverlight version - if you cannot use the 3D version, try this one. (Need help?) * Accessible version - if you're still having difficulty, try this version. (Need help?) The Turning the Pages™ Library currently includes these manuscripts. William Stukeley's Life of Newton Thomas Paine's iron bridge design Woolsthorpe Paine letter The Constitutions of Carolina Anatomical drawings of the human lymphatic system The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Foot Richard Waller's watercolours of English flowers and grasses
Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible.
Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. We hope that these will give you a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within our collections. We will be adding more items soon.
Skiff
http://www.skiff.com/index.html
Large format eReader not released yet.
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
http://www.gorgorat.com/#35
so this is one of my FAVORITE BOOKS OF ALL TIME!! and now lots of the stories are up right here :D :D :D
From "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", the kind of advice that saves you a lifetime of figuring it out by yourself
hey're not going to give you a goddamn thing; I'm not going to be a gentleman to such worthless bitches, and so on. I learned it till it was automatic.
BBC News - Why do people often vote against their own interests?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm
The Republicans have learnt how to stoke up resentment against the patronising liberal elite, all those do-gooders who assume they know what poor people ought to be thinking. Right-wing politics has become a vehicle for channelling this popular anger against intellectual snobs. The result is that many of America's poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest. Thomas Frank Thomas Frank thinks that voters have become blinded to their real interests Thomas Frank says that whatever disadvantaged Americans think they are voting for, they get something quite different: "You vote to strike a blow against elitism and you receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our life times, workers have been stripped of power, and CEOs are rewarded in a manner that is beyond imagining.
If people vote against their own interests, it is not because they do not understand what is in their interest or have not yet had it properly explained to them. / They do it because they resent having their interests decided for them by politicians who think they know best.
Political scientist Dr David Runciman looks at why is there often such deep opposition to reforms that appear to be of obvious benefit to voters. On BBC News.
Postscript: J. D. Salinger: Back Issues : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2010/01/postscript-j-d-salinger.html
Short stories by J. D. Salinger published in The New Yorker
Salinger in the New Yorker.
links to all Salinger stories published in The New Yorker
The Millions: Confessions of a Book Pirate
http://www.themillions.com/2010/01/confessions-of-a-book-pirate.html
Book piracy may explode soon, now that books are becoming widely available in electronic form. Here's an interview with a fellow who already trades extensively in pirated e-Books.
stealing books the electronic way
Great piece on bank pirating, with a huge discussion thread. Also, great stuff on this ebook / print book marketing plan: How about doing what Manning Publications did with a recent purchase; add a unique ‘code sheet’ in the book, ask for 3 random entries from it and, if not previously used, allow the person who bought the hard copy to download a *personalised* (ie their email address is embedded in various places throughout) electronic copy. Most books that I want to read in an electronic form I’ve already bought the dead tree version of! All credit to Baen and their authors though. Fantastic library, bought many more books they’ve published as a result."
"Who are the people downloading these books? How are they doing it and where is it happening? And, perhaps most critical for the publishing industry, why are people deciding to download books and why now? I decided to find out, and after a few hours of searching ... I found, on an online forum focused on sharing books via BitTorrent, someone willing to talk. He lives in the Midwest, he’s in his mid-30s and is a computer programmer by trade. By some measures, he’s the publishing industry’s ideal customer, an avid reader who buys dozens of books a year and enthusiastically recommends his favorites to friends. But he’s also uploaded hundreds of books to file sharing sites and he’s downloaded thousands. We discussed his file sharing activity over the course of a weekend, via email, and in his answers lie a critical challenge facing the publishing industry: how to quash the emerging piracy threat without alienating their most enthusiastic customers."
1) With digital copies, what is “stolen” is not as clear as with physical copies. With physical copies, you can assign a cost to the physical product, and each unit costs x dollars to create. Therefore, if the product is stolen, it is easy to say that an object was stolen that was worth x dollars. With digital copies, it is more difficult to assign cost. The initial file costs x dollars to create, but you can make a million copies of that file for no cost. Therefore, it is hard to assign a specific value to a digital copy of a work except as it relates to lost sales.
Hmmm, I never considered myself a pirate. I just thought I was reading. The people who lock ideas away behind hard-to-use uneeded "technologies" seem to be some kind of bad-guys though.
I found, on an online forum focused on sharing books via BitTorrent, someone willing to talk. He lives in the Midwest, he’s in his mid-30s and is a computer programmer by trade. By some measures, he’s the publishing industry’s ideal customer, an avid reader who buys dozens of books a year and enthusiastically recommends his favorites to friends. But he’s also uploaded hundreds of books to file sharing sites and he’s downloaded thousands. We discussed his file sharing activity over the course of a weekend, via email, and in his answers lie a critical challenge facing the publishing industry: how to quash the emerging piracy threat without alienating their most enthusiastic customers. As is typical of anonymous online communities, he has a peculiar handle: “The Real Caterpillar.”
Free eBooks for iPhone, Blackberry or Palm Pre - Kobo
http://kobobooks.com/
Free eBooks for iPhone, Blackberry or Palm Pre
jm: ebook store alternative with available reader apps for many devices
Free eBooks, thousands of bestsellers for $9.99, millions of free classic books, news and magazines, new york times best sellers, globe and mail bestsellers, ereading anytime, anyplace, online and on your mobile phone.
Flavorwire » Mixtape: 10 Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians
http://flavorwire.com/64968/mixtape-10-best-songs-about-libraries-and-librarians
build a playlist
Flavorwire: Cultural news and critique from Flavorpill
Mixtape: 10 Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians
The New Book Banning by Walter Olson, City Journal 12 February 2009
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon0212wo.html
WOW. As a library worker, I find this to be appalling...
"The New Book Banning" - can childrens books pre-1985 give lead poisoning? ( http://bit.ly/6wcqH ) [from http://twitter.com/aphofer/statuses/3149346529]
It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children’s products, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, and booksellers may be at risk if they sell older volumes, or even give them away, without first subjecting them to testing—at prohibitive expense. Many used-book sellers, consignment stores, Goodwill outlets, and the like have accordingly begun to refuse new donations of pre-1985 volumes, yank existing ones off their shelves, and in some cases discard them en masse.
For The Love Of Culture | The New Republic
http://www.tnr.com/article/the-love-culture
lessig lays out various problems and plans w/ copyrighting culture, in GREAT detail. i wonder if his ideas would work...
REWORK: The new business book from 37signals.
http://37signals.com/rework/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1091094
a hilarious collection of attention-grabbing essay titles
RESURCH+ORG
http://www.resurch.org/
RESURCH+ORG is my epic collection of links, references, insights, and inspirations that I have compiled while writing The Skepdad Blog. Many of these are sites I read, books I reference, documents I consult, or information I find otherwise useful and interesting. I've put it here specifically to be a central hub of information (hopefully useful for others) for all things skeptical, science, secular, parenting, educational, or otherwise tangential to that. Many more links have been suggested by helpful readers.
HUGE collection of skeptic resources. Might impressive.
Good list of skeptic blogs/podcasts/books/etc...
BruceEckel / Python 3 Patterns & Idioms / overview — bitbucket.org
http://www.bitbucket.org/BruceEckel/python-3-patterns-idioms/
Bruce Eckel's (of _Thinking in Java_ fame) Creative Commons licensed book about Python 3.
An open source book written and edited by Bruce Eckel with contributions and help from the Python community. Published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Animals can tell right from wrong - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5373379/Animals-can-tell-right-from-wrong.html
Morality in animals
This thinking is another indicator of a change in human assumptions about animal consciousness -- from uncaring reductionism to reflective respect. This is not new. In 1966, Conrad Lorenz made much the same point in On Agression, but noted that humans are the only animals whose moral principles against violence are so often breached in the form of murder and war.
Scientists studying animal behaviour believe they have growing evidence that species ranging from mice to primates are governed by moral codes of conduct in the same way as humans.
Animals possess a sense of morality that allows them to tell the difference between right and wrong, according to a controversial new book.
20 Top Print On Demand Services
http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/news/20-top-print-on-demand-services/
Seth's Blog: Reinventing the Kindle (part II)
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/reinventing-the-kindle-part-ii.html
Blog post on ideas for "socializing" the Kindle. Some good ideas here...
Using ebooks.
Good Girl Art Vintage Paperbacks
http://www.goodgirlart.com/
Good Girl Art, usually shortened to GGA, is the term that describes certain types of Vintage Art, and specifically Paperback Cover Art. Richard Lupoff in his The Great American Paperback defines it as "A cover illustration depicting an attractive young woman, usually in skimpy or form-fitting clothing, and designed for (mild erotic interest). The term does not apply to the morality of the 'good girl', who is often a gun moll, tough cookie, or wicked temptress." The GGA designation seems to have originated with comic books and is usually applied to attractive sexy young women who are either in peril or are perpetrating the peril like my favorite gun moll on the right. So it is often politically incorrect but can also be empowering when at the right end of a gun. There are two Galleries where you will see some of my favorite GGA covers from early Paperbacks and Pulps. You can go directly to Gallery 1 or Gallery 2, or go to the Table of Contents, to see what is here. For those of you who
Good Girl Art, usually shortened to GGA, is the term that describes certain types of Vintage Art, and specifically Paperback Cover Art. Richard Lupoff in his The Great American Paperback defines it as "A cover illustration depicting an attractive young woman, usually in skimpy or form-fitting clothing, and designed for (mild erotic interest). The term does not apply to the morality of the 'good girl', who is often a gun moll, tough cookie, or wicked temptress."
Codex Sinaiticus - See The Manuscript | Genesis |
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx
Wow, oldest bible goes online
ה-Codex Sinaiticus הוא העותק הקדום ביותר של התנ"ך, שהודפס במאה הרביעית. לאחרונה הועלה לאינטרנט עותק סרוק שלו, שמאפשר לעיין בברית החדשה והישנה (ביוונית), לראשונה מזה 100 שנה.
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1,600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time.
Read at Work
http://www.readatwork.com/?-
[Marked as WRONG LINK by FreshDel.icio.us]
bibliothèque de textes littéraires en anglais, à lire au boulot, chez soi, partout... présentation originale (photos, diagrammes...) créée par le New Zealand Book Council
Useful PDF Search Engine For Programmers and Designers (about 7.500.000 Manuals)
http://ebooks-free-download.com/
Yuhooo!!!
Do School Libraries Need Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/do-school-libraries-need-books/
Do schools need to maintain traditional libraries? What are the educational consequences of having students read less on the printed page and more on the Web?
Pro and con essays
A blog discussion about books in school libraries re Cushing Academy.
at this point, the real question is, don't school libraries need more consistent federal funding so they exist period
By reconceptualizing our library, our teachers and students now have better access to vast digital resources for research and learning. But they need more help from librarians to navigate these resources, so we have also increased our library staff by 25 percent.
article do school libraries need books?
The 10 Greatest Apocalyptic Novels Of All Time
http://brainz.org/10-greatest-apocalyptic-novels-all-time/
After scouring book reviews and Wikipedia, a list of the Top Ten Best Apocalyptic Novels was born. The books on this list take you down the darkest paths in uncivilized worlds, from cannibalistic gangs to vampire infected corpses. If this list doesn't get you thinking on the quickest way stock your basement full of water, canned goods and rifles, I don't know what will! Enjoy!
The 8 Best Book Review Sites
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/decide-what-to-read-next-with-the-best-book-review-sites/
The UX Canon: Essential Reading for the User Experience Designer
http://blog.semanticfoundry.com/2010/02/11/the-ux-canon-essential-reading-for-the-user-experience-designer/
The UX Canon: Essential Reading for the User Experience Designer
Extensive list of User Experience reading
THE MONSTER AT THE END OF THIS BOOK
http://smollin.com/michael/tmonstr/mon001.html
This is the full digital version of the Jon Stone's "The Monster at the End of this Book".
Click to turn the pages and read the story (no audio)
Free shipping worldwide on all books from The Book Depository
http://www.bookdepository.com/
and 11k free ebooks
StoryJumper: create your own children's book.
http://www.storyjumper.com/
Wholesale eBook Sales Statistics
http://www.idpf.org/doc_library/industrystats.htm
International Digital Publishing Forum collects quarterly US trade retail eBook sales in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
Don't look now but e-book sales are growing ever-so-rapidly in the trade market. 200% in the last year.
Trade #ebook sales for October up $254% over October 2008, per AAP/IDPF: http://bit.ly/oH21b (via @andrewsavikas) – Tim O'Reilly (timoreilly) http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/6716317310
線形から指数関数的に
Apartment Therapy ohdeedoh | How To: Make a Hanging Book Display Megan's February Jumpstart Project 2009
http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/february-jumpstart-2009-entries/how-to-make-a-hanging-book-display-megans-february-jumpstart-project-2009-077231?image_id=3151
Ten rules for writing fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one
Established authors provide writing tips. Elmore Leonard: 'Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said".' Margaret Atwood: "Take something to write on. Paper is good. In a pinch, pieces of wood or your arm will do." Roddy Doyle: "Do not place a photograph of your ­favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide." There are many more serious tips, too.
In the World of Facebook - The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23651
Great article on facebook past, present and future.
Great overview of Facebook and MySpace. Interesting how the US military bans MySpace (where enlisted men hang out) but is OK with Facebook (officer country online)
Stevey's Home Page - Ten Challenges
http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/ten-challenges
w the answer to that question now, and I'm still basi
Types and Programming Languages,
Ten rules for writing fiction(part two) | Books | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/10-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-two
Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, our survey of established authors' tips for successful authorship continues.
10 Rules for Writing Fiction - Part 2
Twelve Hours Sleep by Twelve Weeks Old: the best parenting book I've read - Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/13/twelve-hours-sleep-b.html
After our daughter Poesy was born, we were inundated with parenting advice and books -- big, thick, 900-page bricks that purported to tell us everything we needed to know to raise a newborn into a productive member of society. Of course, we had neither the attention nor the time to devote to following any of this advice.
Twelve Hours' Sleep by Twelve Weeks Old: A Step-by-Step Plan for Baby Sleep Success, a very short book that does exactly what it says on the cover: it's a simple prescription for teaching your baby to sleep through the whole night by 12 weeks. It takes about an hour to read and does not involve doing anything horrible to your kid like letting her cry all night. Basic method: for the first 8 weeks, keep track of when the kid feeds and sleeps. At 8 weeks, use this to come up with a sleep and feed schedule that more or less fits the rhythm she's falling into. Gently encourage her to stick to it (e.g., if she's hungry before mealtime, see if you can distract her for a few minutes [the first day], then a few minutes more [the next].)
10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com
http://theapple.monster.com/benefits/articles/8529-10-technology-enhanced-alternatives-to-book-reports
This site has tips on how to make book reports more fun for students.
16 Free Must-Read eBooks About Social Media | pamorama
http://www.pamorama.net/2010/02/03/16-free-must-read-ebooks-about-social-media/
16 social media ebooks van Pamorama, blog
Llibres recomanats sobre social media
Sinatra Book
http://sinatra-book.gittr.com/
How to get better at UI design
http://ui-patterns.com/blog/How-to-get-better-at-UI-design
++++ Self training
15 Dazzling Modern Library Designs | WebUrbanist
http://weburbanist.com/2008/12/10/clever-creative-modern-library-architecture-designs/
15 Dazzling Modern Library Designs | Design + Ideas on WU
http://www.webcitation.org/5fhaamuLl
The Extreme Searcher's Web Page
http://extremesearcher.com/
I will be using the book and this website for my college course.
Text for 5540
Shakespeare in XML
http://www.cafeconleche.org/examples/shakespeare/
Shakespeare plays in XML format
Leo's Chronicle: ぜひ押さえておきたいデータベースの教科書
http://leoclock.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post_07.html
Woodworks Library
http://www.evenfallstudios.com/woodworks_library/woodworks_library.html
Free woodworking pdfs
understanding wood
The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work
http://www.bradcolbow.com/archive.php/?p=205
The Brads – a comic about web design »
DRM doesn't work
The Brads – a comic about web design » http://bit.ly/cGAhNe
「死ぬときに後悔すること」ベスト10: わたしが知らないスゴ本は、きっとあなたが読んでいる
http://dain.cocolog-nifty.com/myblog/2009/08/10-654e.html
Books in the Age of the iPad
http://craigmod.com/journal/ipad_and_books/
"The Books We Make embrace their physicality"
"As the publishing industry wobbles and Kindle sales jump, book romanticists cry themselves to sleep. But really, what are we shedding tears over?"
Very reasonable, and well said. I agree with his recommendations and conclusions.
Scanned, read in detail later.
Search the PopSci Archives | Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/archives
Popular Science archives.
"We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. "
30 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks
http://savedelete.com/30-best-websites-to-download-free-ebooks.html
30 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks - http://savedelete.com/30-best-websites-to-download-free-ebooks.html
For that only reason, we have again looked deep into the Internet to find best 30 websites to download free e-books. So download free E-books which interests you more and enjoy reading with a cup of coffee.
Eso
Free Audio Books - Download an audio book in mp3 or iPod format today!
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/
The 16 Best Dystopian Books Of All Time
http://www.popcrunch.com/the-16-best-dystopian-books-of-all-time/
A Clockwork Orange
Sacrificial virgins of the Mississippi | Salon Books
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/08/06/cahokia/
re-Colu
@sulaimansaif in reality, the native americans did own land: http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/08/06/cahokia/index.html [from http://twitter.com/ZainabA/statuses/3161344492]
Timothy Pauketat's "Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi" MCPL has on order Aug09
Free CakePHP E-Book - Super Awesome Advanced CakePHP Tips | PseudoCoder.com
http://www.pseudocoder.com/archives/2009/05/13/free-cakephp-e-book-super-awesome-advanced-cakephp-tips/
Free CakePHP E-Book - Super Awesome Advanced CakePHP Tips http://ow.ly/74UB [from http://twitter.com/10minuteexpert/statuses/1807099322]
Livro de dicas sobre CakePHP
Creative Review - Low-Fi Sci-Fi
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/april/low-fi-sci-fi
in a sea of noise
The best in visual communication.
"We wanted to create a series style that would adhere to the nature of the content – eg its complexity – but employ a hands-on approach
Classic sci-fi novel covers torn down to the bare minimum: black and white goodness.
Love these.
I think I bookmarked this already but oh well...
"Sanda created each cover using A4 paper, with all the typography printed and placed on the structure by hand," Jones continues. "We then photographed each paper structure and, upon seeing the original black and white images, we didn't feel that any tweaking or further alterations were needed."
携帯電話向けWebアプリのセッション管理はどうなっているか - ockeghem(徳丸浩)の日記
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ockeghem/20090714/p1
誰かまともな発注先を見分ける質問リストとか作ったらどうだろうか
A List Apart: Articles: Web Standards for E-books
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ebookstandards/
The internet did not replace television, which did not replace cinema, which did not replace books. E-books aren’t going to replace books either. E-books are books, merely with a different form.
Islands in the Stream: Our "Walking Tour of New York's Independent Bookstores," Revised and Expanded - The Millions
http://www.themillionsblog.com/2009/03/islands-in-stream-our-walking-tour-of.html
Map and walking tour of indie bookstores in NUC
Aa map for a walking tour of NYC's independent book stores.
The Millions has a walking tour of independent bookstores left in nYc. http://bit.ly/uvVsT I love the list, but sad that it's so small.
Despite the vagaries of the business, independent bookstores continue to open, and to serve as hubs for communities real and imagined.
Walking Tour of New York's Independent Bookstores
It would be belaboring the obvious to say the last two years have been tough times for the bookmen and bookwomen. And yet, despite the vagaries of the business, independent bookstores continue to open, and to serve as hubs for communities real and imagined. I'll spare you the exegesis on why I think this matters - we've covered that ground in the original post, and elsewhere. Instead, I'd like to offer you a new and improved edition of the Walking Tour. You can still find brief descriptions of many of the stops in our first "Islands in the Stream Post," but the route we've charted has changed, and we've added new stops, with new descriptions below. In addition, through the magic of modern technology, we've created an information-rich online map of the tour.
Designing for the Web – Contents
http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/index.php
Did This Man Just Rewrite Science? - New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02EEDA113DF932A25755C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
This insight is the jumping-off point of Dr. Wolfram's glossy 1,263-page book, ''A New Kind of Science,'' published a month ago by Dr. Wolfram himself to the accompaniment of articles comparing Dr. Wolfram to Isaac Newton.
A New Kind of Science
simples rules and algorithms define nature, not complex ones
データベースパフォーマンスに関する、僕が知りうる限り最高の教科書 - 山本大@クロノスの日記
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/iad_otomamay/20090805/1249479181
データベースパフォーマンスアップの教科書 基本原理編
どこの現場に行っても正解を導く方程式は一緒なので応用が利く Oracle、SQLServer、MySQLと色々なDBのチューニングをしてきましたが、 どれもRDBの理論に基いているので基本原理を知ればチューニングは可能なはず インデックススキャンの種類や、実行計画の読み方もわかりやすく詳しい
Designing for the Web: A book by Mark Boulton
http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/
Designing for the web, a book by Mark Boulton, is now available online for free! http://tr.im/S5pb
"A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design."
Mathematics Books | Math-Blog
http://math-blog.com/mathematics-books/
the best math books for the subject at hand
Mathematics is wonderful!
Building Skills in Python — Building Skills in Python
http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/python/html/index.html
- Language Basics A Programmer’s Introduction to Python - Data Structures - Data + Processing = Objects - Components, Modules and Packages - Projects
Looks like a decent book to get going with python. All online - so likely to be updated at least every so often.
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work
http://underconsideration.com/flaunt/
"Through more than forty case studies, nearly twenty interviews with experienced professionals, and a series of (nonscientific) surveys, Flaunt is a resource for design students as well as young, experienced, freelance, and independent designers."
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work design
Librophile - Finding Free Audio Books Made Easy
http://librophile.com/
Ilmaisia äänikirjoja verkossa
Moteur de recherche d'audiobooks
Welcome | Ibis Reader ™
http://ibisreader.com/
Feedbooksなんかのepubをサイト上で読める。要登録
First ebook app modified for iPad. Uses HTML5
Publishing: The Revolutionary Future - The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23683
Kirjojen ja julkaisemisen tulevaisuus
Espresso Book Machine
"The transition within the book publishing industry from physical inventory stored in a warehouse and trucked to retailers to digital files stored in cyberspace and delivered almost anywhere on earth as quickly and cheaply as e-mail is now underway and irreversible. This historic shift will radically transform worldwide book publishing, the cultures it affects and on which it depends."
Without the contents of our libraries—our collective backlist, our cultural memory—our civilization would collapse.
About the future of books
New technologies, however, do not await permission. They are, to use Schumpeter's overused term, disruptive, as nonnegotiable as earthquakes.
Out of Print Clothing
http://www.outofprintclothing.com/Shop_a/152.htm
Cool!
12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books - Speckyboy Design Magazine
http://speckyboy.com/2010/03/19/12-must-have-free-downloadable-web-design-books/
There are a multitude of books (whether in digital format or print) that cover every possible aspect of web design, each one is unique and offers a personalized opportunity for the author to both educate, inspire, and guide the reader through there knowledge. In this post rather than offer all of my favorite web design books, I have listed 12 books that I have either downloaded and read (or at least scanned through), or I have bookmarked with the whole-hearted intention of eventually reading it (Ruby Best Practices), and the best thing of all? All of these books are completely FREE, in digital format anyway (PDF or HTML).
RT @thiemogillissen RT @simplease: 12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books http://icio.us/uljhkf
graph-theory-algorithms-book - Project Hosting on Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/graph-theory-algorithms-book
Free eBooks - Mega-PDF.com
http://mega-pdf.com/
muchoooos libros gratis en pdf
TweetNotebook - Prints amazing notebooks from your tweets.
http://www.tweetnotebook.com/
was es nicht alles gibt :) RT @wpSEO Notizblock mit dezent platzierten Tweets. € 12 http://j.mp/d8WcQd
Make a notebook from your tweets!
WHY would you do this? Utter cross-media bonkersness.
So you can create your own TweetNotebook with 320 pages of your tweets http://www.tweetnotebook.com – shen heng (shenheng) http://twitter.com/shenheng/statuses/10475200556
found_objects: The Recently Deflowered Girl
http://community.livejournal.com/found_objects/3699822.html?page=1#comments
edward gorey <3
Wonderfully distressing.
The 5 Best Ebook Search Engines – woorkup.com
http://woorkup.com/2010/03/21/the-5-best-ebook-search-engines/
thesimplerlife.net » Blog Archive » 14 websites to make you a more intelligent person
http://www.thesimplerlife.net/2009/12/14/14-links-to-make-you-a-more-intelligent-persons/
Signed Stories Home Page - ITV Signed Stories
http://www.signedstories.com/page/index.cfm
need to ask for videos to be opened for teachers on district...
I've seen Signed Stories bouncing around the blogosphere and Twittersphere for a few weeks now, but only recently have I had time to explore it. Signed Stories is a provider of free videos featuring children's stories accompanied by subtitles and sign language. All of the stories feature someone signing the story (in British Sign Language). In addition to sign language many of the stories also offer subtitles. The videos on Signed Stories are organized into seven themes. With the exception of the Baby and Toddler section the stories are not categorized by age. Although every video is free, because many of the stories and images are copyrighted, Signed Stories videos cannot be downloaded or embedded into other sites
Free videos featuring children's stories with subtitles and signed in British Sign Language.
a provider of free videos featuring children's stories accompanied by subtitles and sign language. All of the stories feature someone signing the story (in British Sign Language). In addition to sign language many of the stories also offer subtitles. The videos on Signed Stories are organized into seven themes. With the exception of the Baby and Toddler section the stories are not categorized by age. Although every video is free, because many of the stories and images are copyrighted, Signed Stories videos cannot be downloaded or embedded into other sites
Outstanding Free Ebooks on Design » Arbenting Freebies - The Product of Being Creative
http://arbent.net/blog/outstanding-free-ebooks-on-design
Given that one of the most important things any designer can do, is to always be learning, we thought we would take a look through a few free Ebooks to suggest them to our readers. (It is important to note, that none of the publishers or authors aske
Downloads: Calibre Manages Your E-Book Collection
http://lifehacker.com/5169425/calibre-manages-your-e+book-collection
Calibre is a feature rich e-book manager, complete with Cover Flow-like looks and network sharing.
Curricula
http://www.microsoft.com/Rus/Msdnaa/Curricula/Default.mspx
Данный сайт адресован преподавателям, аспирантам, студентам и энтузиастам, преподающим и изучающим современные информационные технологии. Здесь размещены учебные курсы, разработанные в университетах и учебных центрах, использующих технологии Microsoft в своем учебном процессе. Представленные материалы могут быть использованы как для самостоятельного изучения, так и для постановки и внедрения собственных курсов в рамках Microsoft Curriculum License Agreement (EN). Допустимо только некоммерческое использование представленных курсов. При использовании материалов сайта ссылка на авторов обязательна.
Библиотека учебных курсов
Locus Online: 2008 Recommended Reading List
http://www.locusmag.com/2009/2008RecommendedReading.html
sci-fi novel tips from editors and reviewers of major magazine
This recommended reading list is a consensus by Locus editors and reviewers with input from outside reviewers, other professionals, and other lists. Essays by many of these contributors are published in the February issue. The list is divided into SF novels, fantasy novels, first novels, YA books, collections, anthologies (original, reprints, and best of the year), nonfiction, art books, novellas, novelettes, and short stories....
The Future of Reading - In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update - Series - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/books/16libr.html?_r=1
School librarians still fight the impression that they play a tangential role. Ms. Rosalia frequently has her lessons canceled at the last minute as classroom teachers scramble to fit in more standardized test preparation. Half a fifth-grade class left in the middle of a recent session on Web site evaluation because the children were performing in a talent show.
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The Digital Librarian This is the third in a series of articles looking at how the Internet and other technologies are changing the way people read.
In web age, library job gets update - article/video on librarian, Stephanie Roasalia
Good article for students in LIS 406
Future of librarianship
An article examining the changing role of the librarian in supporting digital literacy
Highscore - The Boost C++ Libraries
http://en.highscore.de/cpp/boost/
Highscore - The Boost C++ Libraries
Top 10 graphic novels by Danny Fingeroth | Books | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/30/comics
WTF? Where's the capes?!?!?
Danny Fingeroth is an American comic book writer and editor, and an expert on superheroes. Author of Superman on the Couch, his latest book is The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels
100 Tips and Tools for Managing Your Personal Library | PhD American History Online
http://www.phdamericanhistoryonline.com/blog/2008/100-tips-and-tools-for-managing-your-personal-library/
PhD American History Online
Librarything volledig naar je hand zetten...
How Can I Convert PDFs and Other Ebooks to the ePub Format? - Ebooks - Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/5509965/how-can-i-convert-pdfs-and-other-ebooks-to-the-epub-format
Describes a tool called Calibre to convert files to ePub and other formats.
Descarga libros gratis online - Literatia
http://literatia.ning.com/group/librosgratis/forum/topics/descarga-libros-gratis-online
ebooks, libros gratis
エンジニアがタイトル買い、著者買いすべき本 - {Fight the Future => じゅくのblog}
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/jyukutyo/20090416/1239970660
Учебник по языку программирования Python (хабраиндекс) / Язык программирования Python / Хабрахабр
http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/python/61905/
Серия статей «Основы Python» I, Начало II, Строки III, Списки, кортежи, файлы IV, Генераторы списков V, Определение функций, основы VI, Расширенное определение функций Об основах языка Python в сжатой форме Продвинутый уровень Сила и красота декораторов Короткий экскурс в метапрограммирование. Итерируем все и вся Специфика циклов в Питоне. Как я учился работать с XML Консервация объектов в Python Использование модуля Pickle. Memoization в Python Оптимизация работы программ. Простейшее рисование с помощью PIL Regexp и Python: извлечение токенов из текста Как писать маленькие приложения на python с графическим интерфейсом (библиотека Qt). http://netsago.org/ru/docs/1/12/ Одеваем скрипты Python с помощью EasyGui (добавляем простой диалоговый интерфейс) http://djbook.ru/ Учебник по Django (Python-фреймворк для веб-приложений)
10 Things Every Entrepreneur Must Be Reading | JonBischke.com
http://jonbischke.com/2009/04/02/entrepreneur-must-reads/
Bokhylla
http://www.nb.no/bokhylla
Bøker i fulltekst på nett, kan lastes ned som pdf
Velkommen til Bokhylla.no. Vi kan tilby 29.000 bøker i fulltekst. 7440 av dem kan du laste ned som PDF. I løpet av året kommer vi opp mot 50.000 bøker - gratis på nett.
Nasjonalbibliotekets digitale bokhylle. De har mål av seg å komme opp i 50.000 bøker gratis tilgjengelig på nett. Flere kan lastes ned som pdf. Jeg fant flere relevante lærebøker!
Velkommen til Nasjonalbibliotekets nye tjeneste, Bokhylla.no. Det er en glede for oss å gjøre ti tusen bøker tilgjengelige på Internett i fulltekst. I løpet av de kommende to-tre årene regner vi med at vi kan tilby 50.000 bøker - gratis på nett.
Virtual books: images only - Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground: Introduction
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/alice/accessible/introduction.html
the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland The original book (w/ writing and drawings) online.
The original manuscript scanned
Photos of every single page of the original manuscript for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Includes hand-drawn illustrations!
Top 12 Websites To Download Free E-Books
http://technologytosoftware.com/top-12-websites-to-download-free-e-books.html
Ruby Best Practices - Full Book Now Available For Free!
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/022-rbp-now-open.html
io9 - 10 Greatest Libertarian Science Fiction Stories - Libertarian Science Fiction
http://io9.com/5254742/10-greatest-libertarian-science-fiction-stories
Looking for an antidote to Star Trek's utopian but overbearing Federation? Like your science fiction with a bigger emphasis on personal liberties? Then check out our list of the greatest libertarian science fiction...
VQR » Blog » Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/06/23/chris-anderson-free/
We have discovered more than a half dozen passages in the forthcoming book that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources.
Did Chris Anderson plagiarize from Wikipedia
blog commenters include the Chris Anderson
10分のトレーニングで3倍速以上に読めるteruyastar速読法 - teruyastarはかく語りき
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/teruyastar/20090208/1234084317
Love’s Labors and Costs § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/loves_labors_and_costs/
acquire
In Seed Magazine, Jonathan Gottschall, a leading Literary Darwinist, reviews Geoffrey Miller's latest book, Spent, which argues that most of what we do, especially what we buy, is a kind of marketing designed to signal our power and secure our (genetic) place in the social hierarchy. That's all well and good, but it seems awful reductive.
In Spent, University of New Mexico evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller contends that marketing—the jet fuel of unrestrained consumerism—“is the most dominant force in human culture,” and thus the most powerful shaper of life on Earth. Using vivid, evocative language, Miller suggests that consumerism is the sea of modern life and we are the plankton—helplessly tumbled and swirled by forces we can feel but not understand. Miller aims to penetrate to the evolutionary wellsprings of consumerist mania, and to show how it is possible to live lives that are more sustainable, more sane, and more satisfying.
xkcd - A Webcomic - Fiction Rule of Thumb
http://xkcd.com/483/
Fiction Rule of Thumb
The probability that a book is good decreases as the number of words made up by the author increases.
Festival Litcologne
http://litcolony.de/littv
Lesen! Das Buch der Woche
Sendung online anschauen
Brian Dettmer: Adaptations
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/04/brian_dettmer.php
This is an interesting use of books: Brian Dettmer: Adaptations http://ow.ly/6qO9 [from http://twitter.com/10minuteexpert/statuses/1773547736]
Cool Hunting: Brian Dettmer: Adaptations
Artist Brian Dettmer dissects books to expose the beauty of their anatomy. Using an X-acto knife and tweezers, Dettmer pulls away carefully selected layers of books, revealing a complex view of their internal organization.
YouTube - The Future of Publishing - created by DK (UK)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weq_sHxghcg
Ein Video, in dem eigentlich nur ein Text vorgelesen wird. Dieser dreht aber mittendrin und wird wieder rückwärts gelesen.
Bookemon.com
http://www.bookemon.com/
Make books your way! Share with the world. •Free to Make & Publish books •Bookstore Quality Books, Buy One or Many •No Software, Easy Book Builder, 100% Online
Makes interactive, online books, including digpix, uploaded graphics. Start from word files, PowerPoint slides, or templates. Shared by URL. Printed copies of books can also be ordered (for a fee).
100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access « mary & mac design
http://maryandmacdesign.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/100-extensive-university-libraries-from-around-the-world-that-anyone-can-access/
Em inglês
Blog que lista 100 bibliotecas digitais universitárias com maior intensidade nos EUA. 2009
5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading - Futurism - io9
http://io9.com/5501426/5-ways-the-google-book-settlement-will-change-the-future-of-reading
If you care about the future of books, you need to understand the Google Book Settlement. It's a complicated legal document, but we've talked to some of its architects, detractors, and defenders - and break it all down for you.
Understanding Google Books Copyright Settlement
Good, long article.
5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading: http://bit.ly/cAirab – Evgenia Firsova (diffidence) http://twitter.com/diffidence/statuses/12493469991
GameDev.net - Graphics Programming Black Book
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1698.asp
Learn Python The Hard Way: Learn Python The Hard Way
http://learnpythonthehardway.com/index
For non-programmers.
The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/26/100426fa_fact_auletta
Bookstores, particularly independent bookstores, help resist this trend by championing authors the employees believe in. "In a bookstore, there’s a serendipitous element involved in browsing," Jonathan Burnham, the senior vice-president and publisher of HarperCollins, says. "Independent bookstores are like a community center. We walk in and know the people who work there and like to hear their reading recommendations." ... "If you want to make the right decision for the future, fear is not a very good consultant," ... Assked to describe her foremost concern, Carolyn Reidy, of Simon & Schuster, said, "In the digital world, it is possible for authors to publish without publishers. It is therefore incumbent on us to prove our worth to authors every day."
Ken Auletta.... good article on publishers, ebooks, Amazon and Apple. Good statistics.
Publish or Perish
Philip Pullman on the pointless menace of censorship | Books | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/29/philip.pullman.amber.spyglass.golden.compass.banned
When I heard that my novel The Golden Compass (the name in the USA of Northern Lights) appeared in the top five of the American Library Association's list of 2007's most challenged books, my immediate and ignoble response was glee.
Censorship is a terrible thing. So thank goodness it never works, says Philip Pullman.
In fact, when it comes to banning books, religion is the worst reason of the lot. Religion, uncontaminated by power, can be the source of a great deal of private solace, artistic inspiration, and moral wisdom. But when it gets its hands on the levers of political or social authority, it goes rotten very quickly indeed. The rank stench of oppression wafts from every authoritarian church, chapel, temple, mosque, or synagogue – from every place of worship where the priests have the power to meddle in the social and intellectual lives of their flocks, from every presidential palace or prime ministerial office where civil leaders have to pander to religious ones. My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
Censorship is a terrible thing. So thank goodness it never works, says Philip Pullman
Religion, uncontaminated by power, can be the source of a great deal of private solace, artistic inspiration, and moral wisdom. But when it gets its hands on the levers of political or social authority, it goes rotten very quickly indeed. The rank stench of oppression wafts from every authoritarian church, chapel, temple, mosque, or synagogue – from every place of worship where the priests have the power to meddle in the social and intellectual lives of their flocks, from every presidential palace or prime ministerial office where civil leaders have to pander to religious ones. My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
"My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good."
Censorship is a terrible thing. So thank goodness it never works, says Philip Pullman
David Allen: What Kind of Self-Manager Are You? | BNET
http://www.bnet.com/2436-13242_23-254605.html
The patron saint of personal productivity is back — and this time he’s offering more than just a system for handling overflowing email inboxes and misplaced files. In his third book, “Making It All Work,” David Allen takes his popular Getting Things Done model to the next level and promises a full-fledged road map for processing life and work in tandem. According to Allen, most people, whether at work or at home, fall victim to common organizational “syndromes.” There’s the person who stays on top of only enough details to stay afloat, or the micromanager, whose overly tight grip on life and work leads to too much focus on organizing and too little on accomplishing tasks. In these exclusive excerpts, Allen explains what it takes to be a successful self-manager and how to (finally) get focused.
Making It All Work
Do you manage other people better than yourself? In exclusive excerpts from his new book, Making It All Work, David Allen explains how to be master and commander of your own vision.
【書評】 「実践Web Standards Design」が名著すぎる - IDEA*IDEA ~ 百式管理人のライフハックブログ ~
http://www.ideaxidea.com/archives/2009/01/web_standards_design.html
良いらしい。
まだ途中ではありますが、いまいちわかっていなかったDOCTYPEやらマージンの相殺やらfloatやらCSSのセレクタの指定方法だとかがすっきりとわかってかなり気持ちいいです。 r0012124 ↑ ところどころカラーでわかりやすいです。 ウェブ標準やらブラウザ対応やらについては建前ちっくなものもありますが、この本では「現場で使える」手法が満載されているのが素敵すぎます。 こういう本は個々人のスキルレベルによるのでおすすめが難しいですが、CSSでのレイアウトにいまいち自信が持てない、という人にはおすすめですよ。
実践Web Standards Design
「実践Web Standards Design
37 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks
http://resources.savedelete.com/37-best-websites-to-download-free-ebooks.html
RT @draenews: Del 37 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks: http://bit.ly/9ZeCMU
"37 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks" ( http://bit.ly/c8zr8H )
Free EBooks nowadays are in high demand as people like to read on there laptops, palm tops and iPad etc. We all know that reading is the best way to gain a particular knowledge from a source. This practice makes books convert into digital media equivalent which we call Ebooks. So what do you think if you’re able to download free ebooks and take with yourself any place you want.
The Big List of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Development Tools, Libraries, Projects, and Books - Rey Bango
http://blog.reybango.com/2010/04/29/the-big-list-of-javascript-css-and-html-development-tools-libraries-projects-and-books/
Book
The Big List of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Development Tools, Libraries, Projects, and Books I’ve been meaning to do a roll-up of top JavaScript, CSS & HTML development tools that I use or have been recommended to me and after having lunch with my bud Brian Wilpon today, I realized I just needed to do it. He asked me what some of the newer tools are and I think this is the best way to help him (and the community in general). It’s definitely not an all-inclusive list so if you see some that you feel I should add or remove, let me know in the comments.
プログラマーに最適なデータマイニングの教科書 『集合知プログラミング』 - 図書館情報学を学ぶ
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kunimiya/20081116/p1
統計周りの知識は一切ないのでこれから勉強する。
- 図書館情報学を学ぶ
Embracing the digital book — Craig Mod
http://craigmod.com/journal/ebooks/
Let's talk about text. Let's talk about the digital book.
On redesigning e-readers or how we read digital text. Of note: "Show me the overlap of 10,000 readers' highlighted passages in a digital book. This is our ‘Cliff Notes.’ We don’t need Derek Sivers' brilliant summaries[14] anymore (sorry Derek!) — we’re collectively summarizing for each other as we read and mark our digital copies. Show me a heat map of passages — ‘hottest’ to ‘coldest’. Which chapters in this Obama biography should I absolutely not miss?(Fig 7) Let Stefan Sagmeister publicly share the passages he’s highlighted in the new Murakami Haruki novel. This is something I want to see. And I bet you do, too. When I’m considering buying a book, show me how far the average reader gets. Do most readers get through the whole novel or give up halfway? How many notes do they take? How many passages do they highlight?"
The Long Decline of Reading | Mssv
http://mssv.net/2008/12/28/the-long-decline-of-reading/
Reading is declining, what's lost, and what we might do about it.
"There’s a real difference between watching a talk and reading a transcript. A transcript doesn’t convey the tone of voice, the pauses and gestures that punctuate an argument.""And yet people still read articles and essays, and they still demand transcripts. Why?" "The informational density of writing is only half the story. The other half is in the unique ability of the written word to construct and convey complex intellectual ideas.""Reading is not simply a faster form of listening; it is a qualitatively different process that involves completely different pathways in the brain. The field of language acquisition is a messy and contentious one, but few would disagree with the statement that it is much easier - for whatever reason - for children to learn how to talk than to read."
A Book Apart, Home
http://books.alistapart.com/
RT @abookapart: Our bookstore is open - preorder your copy of HTML5 FOR WEB DESIGNERS now. http://books.alistapart.com
Swaroop C H, The Dreamer - India, Life, Technology » Blog Archive » Announcing my free book on Vim
http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/a-free-book-on-vim/
I’m happy to announce the first public release of my Creative-Commons licensed book on the Vim 7 editor. This book is meant for both beginners and advanced users. For beginners, it walks you through the first steps to learning about modes, discusses about typing skills to be effective and moves on to the editing basics. This book will definitely appeal more to people who are Vim users already because it helps add a huge number of tricks to their arsenal, whether it is more efficient editing, personal information management, coding your own plugins or making Vim a programmers’ editor.
MacRuby: The Definitive Guide
http://macruby.labs.oreilly.com/
Scifi Gift Guide: Chilling Books to Read and Share in the Darkness of Winter
http://io9.com/5111935/chilling-books-to-read-and-share-in-the-darkness-of-winter
Sci Fi
Four Free Ebooks for Web Developers | yensdesign - Tutorials, Web Design and Coding
http://yensdesign.com/2009/01/four-free-ebooks-web-developers/
As we used to think and say over here, sharing knowledge it's a great way to help others. This time we bring to you four free ebooks about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web
FREE
The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary. - - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
David Foster Wallace
A complete list of words that David Foster Wallace circled in his American Heritage Dictionary.
Smories - new stories for children, read by children
http://www.smories.com/
Fun for spending time with grandchildren
new stories for children, read by children
Out of Print Clothing
http://www.outofprintclothing.com/
Catcher in the Rye t-shirt
YouTube - Alice for the iPad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gew68Qj5kxw
YouTube - Alice for the iPad http://ow.ly/1L1pf
@hansdorsch shows "Alice in Wonderland" Childrensbook on iPad - great and inspiring - see a video here http://bit.ly/b3TAnm #next10 #pxped – rattomago (rattomago) http://twitter.com/rattomago/statuses/13790914770
@erwblo misschien leuk om http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gew68Qj5kxw bij je blogpost te plaatsen voor mensen die het nog niet kennen – Jasper van der Meij (jvdmeij) http://twitter.com/jvdmeij/statuses/13711856574
Readings in Database Systems Web Supplement
http://redbook.cs.berkeley.edu/
This book is one of the fundamental database theory books available today. A list of the papers featured in the book, as well as various lecture notes, are listed. Need to track down some of these papers.
Free online speed reading software | Spreeder.com
http://www.spreeder.com/app.php?intro=1
Free online speed reading - interesting
Awesome.
Speed reading online, paste text, lets you read very quickly
10 New UX Books To Look Out for in 2010 | UX Booth
http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/10-new-ux-books-to-look-out-for-in-2010/
Livros de UX para ler em 2010
Schneier on Security: Here Comes Everybody Review
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/11/here_comes_ever.html
brilliant review (and comments) on Shirky's "Here comes Everybody
"Coase, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics, answered the question by noting a market's transaction costs: buyers and sellers need to find one another, then reach agreement, and so on. The Coase theorem implies that if these transaction costs are low enough, direct markets of individuals make a whole lot of sense. But if they are too high, it makes more sense to get the job done by an organization that hires people. What's new is something consultant and social technologist Clay Shirky calls "Coase's Floor," below which we find projects and activities that aren't worth their organizational costs -- things so esoteric, so frivolous, so nonsensical, or just so thoroughly unimportant that no organization, large or small, would ever bother with them. Things that you shake your head at when you see them and think, "That's ridiculous." Sounds a lot like the Internet, doesn't it?"
Review of Clay Shirky's book, with useful new insights in the first couple of paragraphs.
In 1937, Ronald Coase answered one of the most perplexing questions in economics: if markets are so great, why do organizations exist? Why don't people just buy and sell their own services in a market instead? Coase, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics, answered the question by noting a market's transaction costs: buyers and sellers need to find one another, then reach agreement, and so on. The Coase theorem implies that if these transaction costs are low enough, direct markets of individuals make a whole lot of sense. But if they are too high, it makes more sense to get the job done by an organization that hires people.
"[Clay Shirky's] new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, explores a world where organizational costs are close to zero and where ad hoc, loosely connected groups of unpaid amateurs can create an encyclopedia larger than the Britannica and a computer operating system to challenge Microsoft's."
MediaShift . 5 Great Services for Self-Publishing Your Book | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/03/5-great-services-for-self-publishing-your-book061.html
Windows プログラマなら読んでおきたい「Windowsデバッグの極意」 - てっく煮ブログ
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/nitoyon/20090521/windows_debug
Windowsのデバッグツールが紹介されている
gflags
デバッガづくりの参考にもなりそう.
オススメのデバッグツール9選
.NET な人には、.NET&Windowsプログラマのためのデバッグテクニック徹底解説 が MS 公認だしおすすめ。Visual Studio を使った高度なデバッグテクニックが紹介されている。
Resources | Type Directors Club
http://tdc.org/tdc/resources
type font for bag*
We are an international organization for all people who are devoted to excellence in typography, both in print and on screen
Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/book.html
Sketchbook Secrets: 50 Beautiful Sketchbook Scans
http://designinstruct.com/visual-inspiration/sketchbook-secrets-50-beautiful-sketchbook-scans/
רישומים של מחברות
50 Beautiful Sketchbook Scans
The sketchbook is an artist's BFF. It's a place where artists can most comfortably explore their personal thoughts, practice, maintain a visual history, and keep unpolished sketches that will eventually lead to amazing work. When we're lucky, we get to see behind the scenes. Here 50 beautiful sketchbook scans from 35 talented artists.
sketchbooks fodas..
Remembering David Foster Wallace
http://www.kottke.org/08/09/remembering-david-foster-wallace
via kottke.com, dozens of links about the late writer, david foster wallace
A collection of links to resources related to, anecdotes about, and eulogies of the deceased author. NB: he loved The Wire!
Jason Kottke assembled a set of links commemorating DFW.
kottke's list of remembrances, because I, too, need to close some of these tabs
Kottke rounds up quite a few links about David Foster Wallace, the acclaimed writer that died recently. I've never read anything by Wallace, but all the outpouring of sorrow makes me wonder if I should have been.
20 Places Where Bookworms Go to Read and Socialize Online -- Education-Portal.com
http://education-portal.com/articles/20_Places_Where_Bookworms_Go_to_Read_and_Socialize_Online.html
CR Blog » Blog Archive » A Designer’s Portfolio, 16th Century-Style
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/a-designers-portfolio-16th-century-style/
Macclesfield Alphabet Book
hand type
Required Reading for Interactive Designers | Design & Innovation | Fast Company
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/required-reading-interactive-designers
Looks like a useful reading list for interaction design.
Required reading list for MFA interaction-design program @ School of Visual Arts, in New York
Thu Feb 12, 2009 at 9:13 AM | Fast Company |BY Cliff Kuang
Good list... need to read a few on here
InfoQ: Recommended Agile Books
http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/05/recommended-agile-books
This post is a compilation of recommended Agile books by various Agilists. The recommendations try to cover the entire spectrum of process, people and technology related to Agile. The idea is to make the process of Agile adoption easier and fruitful.
An Aesthetics Reading List for Programmers - Ideas For Dozens
http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2009/04/an_aesthetics_reading_list_for.html
So, as an aide to programmers looking to improve their ability to produce and critique aesthetic arguments, I've put together a short reading list of items I find both accessible and helpful. These texts vary from actual art criticism to art history and theory. They also vary in vintage — from the very recent to more than 100 years old — and in format — from serious book-length essays to short art criticism and reportage.
Rocket Bomber - article - retail - commentary - Rethinking the Box: The Seven Types of Customer.
http://www.rocketbomber.com/2009/06/01/rethinking-the-box-the-seven-types-of-customer
No Media Kings » Free Anarchomic Released
http://nomediakings.org/time_management_for_anarchists/free_anarchomic_released.html
Time Management for Anarchists
Time Management for anarchists - comic
Free Software Turns the iPhone Into an E-Book Reader | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/using-the-iphon.html
Wiredin artikkeli Stanzan iPhone -versiosta
Stanza
Presentation Zen: 10 rules for making good design
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/12/i-picked-up-a-book-recently-called-design-elements-a-graphic-style-manual-by-timothy-samara-that-is-quite-good-samara-start.html
10 design rules to keep in mind (1) Communicate — don't decorate. (2) Speak with a visual voice. (3) Use two typeface families maximum. OK, maybe three. (4) Pick colors on purpose. (5) If you can do it with less, then do it. (6) Negative space is magical — create it, don't just fill it up! (7) Treat the type as image, as though it's just as important. (8) Be universal; remember that it's not about you. (9) Be decisive. Do it on purpose — or don't do it at all. (10) Symmetry is the ultimate evil.
michigan / 23 / 03 / 2009 / News / Home - Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/23/michigan
""I have been increasingly convinced that the business model based on printed monograph was not merely failing but broken," said Phil Pochoda, director of the Michigan press. "Why try to fight your way through this? Why try to remain in territory you know is doomed? Scholarly presses will be primarily digital in a decade. Why not seize the opportunity to do it now?""
"Michigan officials say that their move reflects a belief that it's time to stop trying to make the old economics of scholarly publishing work. 'I have been increasingly convinced that the business model based on printed monograph was not merely failing but broken,' said Phil Pochoda, director of the Michigan press. 'Why try to fight your way through this? Why try to remain in territory you know is doomed? Scholarly presses will be primarily digital in a decade. Why not seize the opportunity to do it now?'"
Scholarly publishing takes a digital hit.
The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital. Within two years, press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs that the press publishes each year -- currently in book form -- to be released only in digital editions. Readers will still be able to use print-on-demand systems to produce versions that can be held in their hands, but the press will consider the digital monograph the norm. Many university presses are experimenting with digital publishing, but the Michigan announcement may be the most dramatic to date by a major university press.
"The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital."
The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital. Michigan officials say that their move reflects a belief that it's time to stop trying to make the old economics of scholarly publishing work. Michigan officials said that they don't plan to cut the budget of the press -- but to devote resources to peer review and other costs of publishing that won't change with the new model. Significantly, they said, the press would no longer have to reject books deemed worthy from a scholarly perspective, but viewed as unable to sell. ...move to the idea that a university press should be judged by its contribution to scholarship, not "profit or loss," which has become too central as the economics of print publishing have deteriorated. The shift is not designed to save money, but to make better use of the money being spent on the press. [good stuff in comments too]
The nicest math book I own | Math-Blog
http://math-blog.com/2008/12/22/the-nicest-math-book-i-own/
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
A Journey Round My Skull: Extraordinary early 20th century magazine covers from Japan
http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/06/extraordinary-early-20th-century.html
Vintage Japanese magazine cover designs
These covers come from Bookcover Design in Japan 1910s-40s (ISBN 4-89444-426-7) edited by Masayo Matsubara. Published in 2005 by PIE Books, this incredible book is already out-of-print and becoming hard to find (it was actually hard for me to find and I spend hours per day searching for rare books). This book is in Japanese only, but of course you need it for the 650 illustrations. Many of the images in the book are small, so it was fun blowing them up through hi-res scanning. Click for much larger versions.
Japanese posters
Without God - The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21800?source=rss
In his celebrated 1837 Phi Beta Kappa Oration at Harvard, titled "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson predicted that a day would come when America would end what he called "our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands." His prediction came true in the twentieth century, and in no area of learning more so than in science. This surely would have pleased Emerson. When he listed his heroes he would generally include Copernicus and Galileo and Newton along with Socrates and Jesus and Swedenborg. But I think that Emerson would have had mixed feelings about one consequence of the advance of science here and abroad—that it has led to a widespread weakening of religious belief.[1]
Without God By Steven Weinberg Charles DarwinCharles Darwin by David Levine In his celebrated 1837 Phi Beta Kappa Oration at Harvard, titled "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson predicted that a day would come when America would end what he called "our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands." His prediction came true in the twentieth century, and in no area of learning more so than in science. This surely would have pleased Emerson. When he listed his heroes he would generally include Copernicus and Galileo and Newton along with Socrates and Jesus and Swedenborg. But I think that Emerson would have had mixed feelings about one consequence of the advance of science here and abroad—that it has led to a widespread weakening of religious belief.[1]
He warned me that we must worship God, because otherwise we would start worshiping each other. He was right about the danger, but I would suggest a different cure: we should get out of the habit of worshiping anything.
Collection of Free Programming and Technology Related Books
http://www.devcurry.com/2010/06/collection-of-free-programming-and.html
This post contains the list of sites offering Programming, Information Technology and Computer books which are provided by Publishers and Authors legally and free. You can bookmark this post for future use.
HTML5 and CSS3 Books to Watch for in 2010 | Webdesigner Depot
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/05/html5-and-css3-books-to-watch-for-in-2010/
Great books to look into for the HTML 5. Caution though! What may change in the future?
a list of eleven books that will be released in 2010 that focus on HTML5 and CSS3
Over the past year, new techniques and tricks involving HTML5 and CSS3 enhancements have been shared on a number of websites, giving developers new
The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life
http://io9.com/5551875/the-twenty-science-fiction-novels-that-will-change-your-life
Ty lidi nikdy neslyseli treba o LEMovi?
30+ Best Websites to download free E-books | Graphic and Web Design Blog
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/best-websites-download-free-e-books/
download livros de graça - 30 melhores sites
Free Science Books and Journals | Sciyo.com
http://sciyo.com/
Sciyo is a free service that allows scientists to publish their works and connect with other authors. Works published on Sciyo are made available for free to visitors. Visitors can download works as PDFs. There are currently 211 free books on Sciyo. The category of books that is probably of most interest to readers of this blog is Technology and Education. In the future videos will also be available on Sciyo.
OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT SHOULD I DO?
http://www.ohmygodwhathappened.com/
This Book helps you to move into the Digital era of awesomeness. Download it for free: http://bit.ly/4R9rth
Oh My God What Happened and What Should I Do? a new #book about digital awesomeness http://bit.ly/cCGD2b
How to convert PDF files to ePub files to read on your iPad with iBooks – Simple Help
http://www.simplehelp.net/2010/04/05/how-to-convert-pdf-files-to-epub-files-to-read-on-your-ipad-with-ibooks/
How to convert PDF files to ePub files to read on your iPad with iBooks
Convert your PDF Files to ePub format to have them in iBooks on the iPad #iPad #ePub #calibre
After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all - News, Books - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/after-keeping-us-waiting-for-a-century-mark-twain-will-finally-reveal-all-1980695.html
CS242: Course Readings
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/
Stanford
Do It Yourself eBooks | Carsonified
http://carsonified.com/blog/business/do-it-yourself-ebooks/
Creating Your own eBook
YourNextRead: Book Recommendations (USA)
http://www.yournextread.com/us/
RT @draenews: Del YourNextRead: Book Recommendations (USA): http://bit.ly/aw6m2Z
YourNextRead recommends your next book. YourNextRead provides a book recommendation system showing aggregated book reviews, updated by real peoples opinions, in a simple visual map, helping you to decide 'What Should I Read Next?'. Perfect for both bookworms and casual readers!
A Reading List For the Self-Taught Computer Scientist : books
http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/ch0wt/a_reading_list_for_the_selftaught_computer/
MeeGenius Library
http://www.meegenius.com/
RT @SeanBanville: Fab! RT @NikPeachey: Fantastic collection of kids books that read to you http://bit.ly/b1BEbk #efl #edtech #literacy ...
Fantastic collection of kids books that read to you http://www.meegenius.com/ #TESOL #ESL #TEFL #efl #edtech #literacy #YL
教宝宝学外语,宝宝
Kids storybooks read aloud.
Ten recent programming books that will make you a better developer
http://programmingzen.com/2010/06/21/ten-recent-programming-books-that-will-make-you-a-better-developer/
Interesting book on programming / development.
1冊90円~本(書籍)の電子化/PDF、スキャン代行サービスなら-スキャポン-
http://www.scapon.jp/index.html
jQuery Fundamentals
http://www.rebeccamurphey.com/jqfundamentals/book/release/html/
CODE AT GITHUB: http://github.com/rmurphey/jqfundamentals ...novice developers who are new to jQuery or the JavaScript language? I’d be failing in my duties if I neglected to mention SitePoint’s books such as the magnificent Simply JavaScript by Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams. However, while you’re waiting for it to be delivered, I can recommend jQuery Fundamentals by Rebecca Murphy. It’s a comprehensive online book which guides you from JavaScript basics through to writing jQuery plugins. Even expert JavaScript developers will find something they didn’t know. The book is excellent. It’s well-written, concise, and contains plenty of examples and JavaScript gotchas. What’s more, it’s free. The sections include: JavaScript basics jQuery basics utility methods events and effects Ajax writing jQuery plugins There’s also a list of links to all the examples. That’s useful when you forget the exact syntax for anonymous self-executing functions or cloning DOM nodes.
Read this soon!
Unboxed - Yes, People Still Read, but Now It’s Social - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/business/20unbox.html
the speed with which we can follow the trail of an idea, or discover new perspectives on a problem, has increased by several orders of magnitude. We are marginally less focused, and exponentially more connected.
“THE point of books is to combat loneliness,” David Foster Wallace observes near the beginning of “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” David Lipsky’s recently published, book-length interview with him.
is it good or bad?
It’s no accident that most of the great scientific and technological innovation over the last millennium has taken place in crowded, distracting urban centers. The printed page itself encouraged those manifold connections, by allowing ideas to be stored and shared and circulated more efficiently. One can make the case that the Enlightenment depended more on the exchange of ideas than it did on solitary, deep-focus reading. Quiet contemplation has led to its fair share of important thoughts. But it cannot be denied that good ideas also emerge in networks.
many great ideas that have advanced culture over the past centuries have emerged from a more connective space, in the collision of different worldviews and sensibilities, different metaphors and fields of expertise. (Gutenberg himself borrowed his printing press from the screw presses of Rhineland vintners, as Mr. Carr notes.)
If you happen to be reading the book on the Kindle from Amazon, Mr. Wallace’s observation has an extra emphasis: a dotted underline running below the phrase. Not because Mr. Wallace or Mr. Lipsky felt that the point was worth stressing, but because a dozen or so other readers have highlighted the passage on their Kindles, making it one of the more “popular” passages in the book.
Home | Yahoo! Style Guide
http://styleguide.yahoo.com/
Six Writers on Their Favorite Reading -- New York Magazine
http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/66294/
If you like ...
Overbooked: a resource for readers
http://overbooked.com/
Overbooked is a website for ravenous and omnivorous readers... Overbooked originals include annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which received starred reviews, themed booklists, featured titles lists and hot lists of US fiction releases and notable books. This site contains large files.
Reader's advisory - reviews, best lists, themed lists
Overbooked is a website for ravenous and omnivorous readers... Overbooked originals include annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which received starred reviews, themed booklists, featured titles lists and hot lists of US fiction releases and notable books. This site contains large files.
Bookshelf Porn: Archive
http://bookshelfporn.com/archive
estanterias!!
Bookshelf Porn
9 Essential Books For Bloggers and Freedom Seekers (or How To Save $50,000 On An MBA)
http://www.ridiculouslyextraordinary.com/9-essential-books-for-bloggers-and-freedom-seekers/
9 Essential Books For Bloggers and Freedom
iPadZine - 無料の電子書籍投稿サービス
http://www.ipad-zine.com/
iPadで読める電子書籍ばかりを集めたiPad専用の電子書籍投稿サービス
iPadで読める電子書籍(PDF、EPUB、テキスト、写真集)投稿サービス。iPadZineの登録・利用は無料!投稿した電子書籍は、iPadで直接ダウンロードしてオフラインで読書が楽しめます。
ほう。
Hacking the Academy
http://hackingtheacademy.org/
A book crowdsourced in one week may 21-28 2010
iPad and Kindle Reading Speeds (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad-kindle-reading.html
Nielson compares Kindle to iPad reading speeds
Possible ECOO
Summary: A study of people reading long-form text on tablets finds higher reading speeds than in the past, but they're still slower than reading print.
A study of people reading long-form text on tablets finds higher reading speeds than in the past, but they're still slower than reading print.
Nielsen säger att det går snabbare att läsa bok än e-bok. Testat på 24 personer- http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad-kindle-reading.html
Studie: Vergleich von Lesekomfort bei Kindle, iPad, PC
7 Great Completely Free eBooks on Social Media You Have to Read
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-great-completelyfree-ebooks-social-media-read/
"Do you love books? Love getting free stuff? Yeah, me too. That’s why I’ve decided to share with you all a selection of excellent books on social media that are all available to read for free."
a selection of completely free ebooks which come highly recommended by social media professionals.
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Flip Book
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/
Create a flipbook
A flip book maker! Possibly for primary school usage?
Read Write Think provides teachers, particularly reading and writing teachers, with a wealth of information and teaching resources. One neat resource of theirs that I recently learned about through Doug Peterson is their flip book maker. Read Write Think's flip book maker provides a template for students to use to create and print a ten page flip book. Students can use the flip book maker to design pages that contain various combinations of text and images. The flip book maker provides drawing tools that students can use to create original drawings to illustrate their stories.
Kno
http://www.kno.com/
homepage for Kno e-reader
While no one was looking, someone revolutionized the textbook, higher education, and learning itself in one crazy, bold move. Yes, it’s a digital textbook. Yes, it’s a whole new ecosystem. Two spacious panels. Touch-screen interaction. A fully-stocked store. Video. Note-taking. Sharing and community. Kno is everything a textbook was. And will be.
Kno
http://www.kno.com/
homepage for Kno e-reader
While no one was looking, someone revolutionized the textbook, higher education, and learning itself in one crazy, bold move. Yes, it’s a digital textbook. Yes, it’s a whole new ecosystem. Two spacious panels. Touch-screen interaction. A fully-stocked store. Video. Note-taking. Sharing and community. Kno is everything a textbook was. And will be.
So you want to be an epublisher – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
http://www.zeldman.com/2010/06/28/so-you-want-to-be-an-epublisher/
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it's even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you've glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children's books, and gone into hock re-
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it’s even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you’ve glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children’s books, and gone into hock re-creating your library on iPad, why not give something back by doing a little writing yourself?
Epublishing howto - indispensable advice
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it’s even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you’ve glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children’s books, and gone into hock re-creating your library on iPad, why not give something back by doing a little writing yourself? What to write about, how to ensure quality, and how to identify and market to an audience are beyond the scope of this little post, but we can point to some dandy resources that tell how to create and test your epub. So let’s go!
So you want to be an epublisher.
So you want to be an epublisher – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
http://www.zeldman.com/2010/06/28/so-you-want-to-be-an-epublisher/
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it's even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you've glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children's books, and gone into hock re-
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it’s even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you’ve glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children’s books, and gone into hock re-creating your library on iPad, why not give something back by doing a little writing yourself?
Epublishing howto - indispensable advice
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it’s even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you’ve glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children’s books, and gone into hock re-creating your library on iPad, why not give something back by doing a little writing yourself? What to write about, how to ensure quality, and how to identify and market to an audience are beyond the scope of this little post, but we can point to some dandy resources that tell how to create and test your epub. So let’s go!
5 JavaScript Books Worth Every Cent
http://www.devcurry.com/2010/07/5-javascript-books-worth-every-cent.html
books
by @suprotimagarwal
5 JavaScript Books Worth Every Cent http://ow.ly/1826a3 – Javascript News (del_javascript) http://twitter.com/del_javascript/statuses/17945428948
10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ways-google-books-lifelong-learning-research/
10 ways to use Google Books for Lifelong learning and research from makeuseof.com http://ow.ly/27fDf – Manchester Libraries (MancLibraries) http://twitter.com/MancLibraries/statuses/18022651860
Good post on ways to use Google Books
So you want to be an epublisher – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
http://www.zeldman.com/2010/06/28/so-you-want-to-be-an-epublisher/
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it's even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you've glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children's books, and gone into hock re-
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it’s even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you’ve glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children’s books, and gone into hock re-creating your library on iPad, why not give something back by doing a little writing yourself?
Epublishing howto - indispensable advice
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it’s even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you’ve glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children’s books, and gone into hock re-creating your library on iPad, why not give something back by doing a little writing yourself? What to write about, how to ensure quality, and how to identify and market to an audience are beyond the scope of this little post, but we can point to some dandy resources that tell how to create and test your epub. So let’s go!
5 JavaScript Books Worth Every Cent
http://www.devcurry.com/2010/07/5-javascript-books-worth-every-cent.html
10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ways-google-books-lifelong-learning-research/
The great thing about Google is that you can take any of its services and extend it to uses that are not so obvious. We have seen the uncounted ways you can use Google Search. Now, take Google Books for instance.
10 ways to use Google Books for Lifelong learning and research from makeuseof.com http://ow.ly/27fDf – Manchester Libraries (MancLibraries) http://twitter.com/MancLibraries/statuses/18022651860
So you want to be an epublisher – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
http://www.zeldman.com/2010/06/28/so-you-want-to-be-an-epublisher/
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it's even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you've glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children's books, and gone into hock re-
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it’s even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you’ve glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children’s books, and gone into hock re-creating your library on iPad, why not give something back by doing a little writing yourself?
Epublishing howto - indispensable advice
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it’s even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you’ve glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children’s books, and gone into hock re-creating your library on iPad, why not give something back by doing a little writing yourself? What to write about, how to ensure quality, and how to identify and market to an audience are beyond the scope of this little post, but we can point to some dandy resources that tell how to create and test your epub. So let’s go!
Learn to Prepare Tasty Five-Ingredient Meals in Under Ten Minutes
http://lifehacker.com/5568995/free-stonesoup-e+cookbook-makes-five+ingredient-meals-in-under-ten-minutes
Learn to Prepare Tasty Five-Ingredient Meals in Under Ten Minutes
http://lifehacker.com/5568995/free-stonesoup-e+cookbook-makes-five+ingredient-meals-in-under-ten-minutes
Books that will induce a mindfuck@Everything2.com
http://everything2.com/title/Books+that+will+induce+a+Mindfuck
Rands In Repose: How to Write a Book
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/06/28/how_to_write_a_book.html
A great essay on writing, especially large projects.
"There’s a painful threshold when you’re roughly two-thirds of the way through the book where you need an extra shove. My advice is to not write an article about this experience, but rather print out the whole damned book. That’s right. Every single page. If you haven’t already invested in a home laser printer, now is the time. You’re almost an author, dammit. Seeing all of your work spread out on the floor of your office is cathartic."
Maureen Johnson Books » Blog Archive » MANIFESTO
http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/06/08/manifesto/
STILL NEED TO READ
"She was certainly not the first person I’d heard this from. I hear this almost everywhere I go where there are people talking about social media, and I feel that it is time that I rise up against it. In fact, I did, right there and then. I grabbed the microphone from her grasp and said, 'I am not a brand' ... Some people don’t get it. They don’t get that the internet is a conversation."
Some people don’t get it. They don’t get that the internet is a conversation. They think the message only goes one way—out. Things must be shouted. Things must be thrust in your face. Things must be sold.
The Internet is about conversation, not about branding or selling.
RT @peteashton The most important thing you will read about Social Media this week: http://bit.ly/ckRInQ – Andrew Dubber (dubber) http://twitter.com/dubber/statuses/16814698958
Author on social media.
The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone.
anti-branding manifesto
// I am not saying that it is a bad or dishonest thing to try to sell your work. It is not. What I am saying is that I am tired of the rush to *commodify* everything, to turn everything into products, including people. I don’t want a brand, because a brand limits me. A brand says I will churn out the same thing over and over. Which I won’t, because I am weird. // i cry with laughter and i love her ♥♥♥
Rands In Repose: How to Write a Book
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/06/28/how_to_write_a_book.html
A great essay on writing, especially large projects.
I Write Like
http://iwl.me/
meh, two more blog posts analyzed by http://iwl.me results in Jonathan Swift & Stephen King. Methinks results a bit random. #unimpressed
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MIT OpenCourseWare | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Spring 2005 | Lecture Notes
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-042j-mathematics-for-computer-science-spring-2005/lecture-notes/
Mathematics for Computer Science
8 Faces
http://8faces.com/
MAN I wish I had the print version of this.
The first issue sold out quickly but you can still get it in PDF format.
Looking for something to read? Here's a messy collection of book-recommendation threads on reddit. : books
http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/a08cm/looking_for_something_to_read_heres_a_messy/
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