Elites like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos think they’re being philanthropic. But they could do so much more. - Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/10/3/17930990/anand-giridharadas-winners-take-all-book-changing-world-kara-swisher-decode-podcast-jeff-bezos
Imagine if Mondo 2000 got the Fangoria treatment: instead of occasional issues, four times a year you get a fuckin’ BOOK and it’s super fancy so people are willing to pay 5/issue & more at newsstand.
Bad idea of the day: A book called Acknowledgements that’s just a book-length acknowledgements section thanking people for contributing to the book, House-That-Jack-Built-style
Dril’s book of tweets shows he’s the best chronicler of the internet - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/17907568/dril-book-official-mr-ten-years-anniversary-collection-review-tweets-twitter
Censorship Project + A Brief History of Book Burning – Ex Urbe https://www.exurbe.com/censorship-project-a-brief-history-of-book-burning/
The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media
Read some excepts from a book I randomly found yesterday. While the writing was a little dry, I thought it could be an interesting read. However when I looked on Amazon, found out the book was 80 USD. I’m sorry but it was not that interesting.
Proposal for a book to be adapted into a movie starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson https://www.robinsloan.com/proposal-for-a-book/
The Tyranny of Personality Testing | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/151098/personality-brokers-book-review-invention-myers-briggs-type-indicator
Aquarius Rising | by Jackson Lears | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/09/27/1968-aquarius-rising/
TFW you’re trying to balance your desire to recommend a long list of books on some subject with your distaste for the concept of a canon, and then realize that it’s probably OK because you don’t have enough power to impact what people actually read
David Bunch’s Prophetic Dystopia | by Jeff VanderMeer | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/09/12/david-bunchs-prophetic-dystopia/
Book idea (high effort, dunno if I’ll do it): a survey of alternative computing systems in the style of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. What should I include other than smalltalk, colorforth, oberon, templeos, and menuet?
Cowards and Trolls Log Off: Dril’s New Book Is Awesome - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmqew/dril-new-book-tweets-interview
The Surreal Joys Of The Beautiful Book Of Exquisite Corpses / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/the-surreal-joys-of-the-beauti.html
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
Give your house that Escher look with antigravity generators and more: Let your plants tie themselves into knots, build impossibly labyrinthine pillow forts, wrap yourself in a blanket and read a book while in orbit around your living room lamp
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
hyperstition happens when an egregore reads your book and thinks “neat” way before any single human gets it
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
It is written here that the ancients wrote their books in hyper-ink on pages of spidersilk that they assembled into webs. One word of this ink, my friend, could contain a book, but sadly, most of their works fell victim to inkrot
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/
Civilized libraries are usually sterile, “children’s books” sections mere imitations of actual book nurseries. Occasionally librarians are allowed in as symbionts, and when a building becomes too small - you should see them swarm
If you leave books alone to build their own library hives, they end up hexagonal like those of bees. To protect the printing press that serves as queen, intruders are often trapped in endless mazes, for example Borges stumbled into one of those
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/
More practical than the Book of Sand, the Book of Glass consists only of two mirrors, yet contains infinite pages - when closed.
“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
📚 Finished reading The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons by David Fitzgerald
📚 Finished reading The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons by David Fitzgerald
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/