This book is pretty good but Alex Wright keeps calling things like codex formats & indices ‘literary hypertext’. No, that’s just text. Yes, I get that hypertext is more text than text; that’s why it’s hyper.
OK, so the next 22 people who click on this link get my book: https://www.amazon.com/ga/p/9035fb092fa86187?ref_=pe_1771210_134854370#ln-en (The two previous giveaways only gave out one book, which is stupid.)
Why Read the Classics? | by Italo Calvino | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1986/10/09/why-read-the-classics/
Bad idea of the day: replace every word in a book with a sentence in another book that is an anagram of the NATO word-spelling of it
Bad idea of the day: replace every sentence in some book with a sentence from a different gutenberg book that is an anagram of it
Friends and Enemies: On Slogan Tees - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/friends-and-enemies-on-slogan-tees/
@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for #hugo awards. All books for best novel were really good this year, but I somehow missed Six Wakes … sound great!
@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for #hugo awards. All books for best novel were really good this year, but I somehow missed Six Wakes … sound great!
This Fred Turner book really makes me wish we had good hypertext integrated into publishing. Hard to go more than a sentence or two in From Counterculture to Cyberculture without wanting to link it to Rise of the Machines, or Encountering America, or What the Dormouse Said, or Fire in the Valley
Serial Box creates books for the age of Peak TV - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/6/16849756/serial-box-serialized-books-peak-tv
Russian Cosmism Versus Interstellar Bosses: Reclaiming Full-Throttle Luxury Space Communism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/russian-cosmism-versus-interstellar-bosses-reclaiming-full-throttle-luxury-space-communism/
So I accidentally wrote a book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718167423?ref_=pe_870760_150889320
That book the protagonist of The Gernsback Continuum was doing apparently came out lol https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/most-beautiful-gas-station-design
The Crack Squad of Librarians Who Track Down Half-Forgotten Books - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/librarian-detectives-forgotten-books
Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia
story idea: a fringe political party backed by organized crime controls a network of seemingly-independent roadside palmistry shops & new-age stores – organizing fortunes & stocking books in a plan to manipulate voters
Annie Lowrey on her new book, Give People Money, and how UBI could work in the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/annie-lowrey-on-her-new-book-give-people-money-and-how-ubi-could-work-in-the-u-s.html
DAW - Penguin Books USA http://www.penguin.com/publishers/daw/
William Gibson’s Alien 3 Is Becoming a Comic Book https://io9.gizmodo.com/dark-horse-is-turning-william-gibsons-alien-3-script-in-1827548457
squeakland : resources : books : reading list http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
Fiction generator post-mortem: comic book generation https://medium.com/@/fiction-generator-post-mortem-comic-book-generation-9df847dd4ada
Hot take: the ‘great books’ model of liberal education is insufficiently liberal, not because the ‘great books’ are insufficiently diverse but because the canons students engage with are insufficiently different from each other.
reality is a shitty game because you can’t win. reality is a shitty movie because everything happens for no reason. reality is a shitty book because when it does happen it’s repetitive and uninteresting.
Bad idea of the day: A lootbox service for public-domain work – every month you get a hardcover of a PD book & a vinyl of a PD recording
The Democratic Surround: A Conversation Between Fred Turner and Clay Shirky | Public Books http://www.publicbooks.org/the-democratic-surround-a-conversation-between-fred-turner-and-clay-shirky/
Apparently Lachman has a new book: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/06/dark-star-rising-magick-and-p.html
Thread by @GalaxyKate: “Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I’ve been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes
Thread by @GalaxyKate: "Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I‘ve been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes
The Art Of Sci-Fi Book Covers - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Qm_UJML54
take a page out of the hollow earthers’ book, not the MRA’s: if you’re gonna be wrong, at least be wrong in an interesting way.
Book review: The puzzling empathy of debugging https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/05/07/The-puzzling-empathy-of-debugging.html
The Book No One Read - Issue 28: 2050 - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/the-book-no-one-read
This one is good too – you know somebody’s taking it seriously when they include a book of random digits: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/george-dysons-selections-for-the-manual-for-civilization-3efb5ab3db
Oh hey one of these is actually good: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/megan-and-rick-prelingers-selected-books-for-the-manual-for-civilization-1853c7b93f2d
Eminent Philosophers Name the 43 Most Important Philosophy Books Written Between 1950-2000: Wittgenstein, Foucault, Rawls & More | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/eminent-philosophers-name-the-43-most-important-philosophy-books-written-between-1950-2000.html
The Verge Book Club 001 -‘Ubik’ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBiHiShnhso
Samin Nosrat’s ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ and the Best Books for Learning How to Cook - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-why-of-cooking-samin-nosrat/523923/
Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/
Book Towns Are Made for Book Lovers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-a-book-town
GitHub - tuhdo/os01: Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch. A book for self-learner. https://github.com/tuhdo/os01
Bauhaus - Monoskop https://monoskop.org/Bauhaus#Books
Invisible Algorithms, Invisible Politics | Public Books http://www.publicbooks.org/invisible-algorithms-invisible-politics/
I feel like Netflix’s adaptation did a pretty good job of keeping that social & political focus, and even frontloading it a little bit by injecting backstory from the second and third books.
The second and third books are mostly about the political & social ramifications of resleeving technology over centuries. That is, after all, the point of the series.
The first book in the Altered Carbon series hews closer to standard hardboiled structure & is less ‘about’ resleeving but is very much about social inequality at scale.
I keep hearing the awful take that Altered Carbon is shallow aesthetic-centric cyberpunk devoid of social commentary. Did these people rush to skim the book when they heard about the TV show or something?
Why We’re Drawn To Time Loop Stories Like ‘Groundhog Day’ - Digg http://digg.com/2018/time-loop-movies-shows-books-groundhog-day
Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.
Foreclosing on the future of the book https://kottke.org/18/01/foreclosing-on-the-future-of-the-book
Bad idea of the day: A book-length work of fiction that contains no nouns
A Tiny New York Town With Not One, But 5 Indie Bookstores - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hobart-book-village
we need more books designed to be packaged as decks of playing cards. the family arcana is great but not enough.
Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters https://pudding.cool/2017/07/comics/
Old Book Illustrations: Free Archive Lets You Download Beautiful Images From the Golden Age of Book Illustration | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2015/12/old-book-illustrations.html
How To Design A Comic Book Page - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQEfL2BfUM&t=335s
Electronic Literature’s Contemporary Moment: Breeze and Campbell’s “All the Delicate Duplicates” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/electronic-literature-turns-a-new-page-breeze-and-campbells-all-the-delicate-duplicates/
Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/13/book-review-legal-systems-very-different-from-ours/
How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-the-kkk-shaped-modern-comic-book-superheroes/
Some kind of comic book · Issue #54 · NaNoGenMo/2017 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/54
Dark Places: Kier-La Janisse’s “House of Psychotic Women” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dark-places-kier-la-janisses-house-psychotic-women
Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated! | Internet Archive Blogs http://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/
How Blade Runner got its name from a dystopian book about health care - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16416082/blade-runner-name-backstory-ridley-scott-william-burroughs-alan-nourse
How Blade Runner got its name from a dystopian book about health care - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16416082/blade-runner-name-backstory-ridley-scott-william-burroughs-alan-nourse
A Secret History of the Pissing Figure in Art | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-secret-history-of-the-pissing-figure-in-art
Book Review: Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Buddha | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/18/book-review-mastering-the-core-teachings-of-the-buddha/
Best Dystopian Books http://www.vulture.com/article/best-dystopian-books.html
Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/
“The Sandman” at 200 | Public Books http://www.publicbooks.org/the-sandman-at-200/
Hit App Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book https://theintercept.com/2017/08/27/hit-app-sarahah-quietly-uploads-your-address-book/
Error 401 (Unauthorized)!!1 https://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=KnVBTk-hS10C&oi=fnd&pg=PA234&dq=Universe+text+generation+soap+opera&ots=XPAcJYIJhb&sig=6dGDx-TQn248kbUueUjmZ58XbbI#v=onepage&q&f=false
Mumbo Jumbo: a dazzling classic finally gets the recognition it deserves | Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/aug/01/mumbo-jumbo-a-penguin-classic-2017-ishmael-reed
The Surprising Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction | The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-surprising-things-statistics-tell-us-about-fiction
Book Review: Raise A Genius! | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/31/book-review-raise-a-genius/
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Central Intelligence Agency https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/?curator=MediaREDEF
The Nihilism of Julian Assange | by Sue Halpern | The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/nihilism-of-julian-assange-wikileaks/
Kafka’s Joke Book - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/kafkas-joke-book
https://www.facebook.com/notes/dan-clore/recommended-books-on-alternative-little-known-history/1758034257545088/ https://www.facebook.com/notes/dan-clore/recommended-books-on-alternative-little-known-history/1758034257545088/
These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyoa-choose-your-own-adventure-maps
Welcome To The Discordian Library [D.I.S.L.I.B. – the Discordian Internet Society’s Library of Interesting Books] https://dislib.lima.zone/doku.php
Book Club 8: Susan Napier‘s Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3osCGNf-1w
THINK TANK; The Penis as Text for Serious Thinkers: Be Careful What You Wish For - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/books/think-tank-the-penis-as-text-for-serious-thinkers-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html
And there’s always the great http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ #lisp
And there’s always the great http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ #lisp
@kas@enotty.dk I have a kobo, but i actually need it to read books. I bookmarked the page in case i ever get a replacement… :)
@kas@enotty.dk I have a kobo, but i actually need it to read books. I bookmarked the page in case i ever get a replacement… :)
Really liked A Closed and Common Orbit, nice to read a scifi story about character development! Next book: Arkwright by Allen Steele
Really liked A Closed and Common Orbit, nice to read a scifi story about character development! Next book: Arkwright by Allen Steele
Weird, the same repice serves 8 to 10 ppl in the book. I can’t believe we eat the whole pot alone… :) Happy you liked it!
Weird, the same repice serves 8 to 10 ppl in the book. I can’t believe we eat the whole pot alone… :) Happy you liked it!
A detailed document describing HTTP/2 ⌘ https://www.gitbook.com/book/bagder/http2-explained/details
A detailed document describing HTTP/2 ⌘ https://www.gitbook.com/book/bagder/http2-explained/details
Thanks @kas@enotty.dk, I just bought it and copied it on my reader! Never heard of the book before.
Thanks @kas@enotty.dk, I just bought it and copied it on my reader! Never heard of the book before.
@kas@enotty.dk Read them both and loved them! Though I don’t know why Stephenson added that strange appendix to an otherwise great book.