Category Archives: Books, Movies, Music

Warming

March 10, 2008 – 4:49 am

If this doesn’t warm your heart, check to see that it’s not made of stone.

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Netflix for Audio Books

March 10, 2008 – 4:23 am

Netflix for audio books: Simply Audiobooks. Though it makes me wonder why we don’t say ?like a library for audiobooks where they send you the stuff you want.?

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Remix Remix Remix: The Tracey Fragments

November 20, 2007 – 5:14 am

I guess the criticism is that it’s one thing for somebody to open up their music for remixing, but an entirely different thing to do the same with a movie. Or is it? Is it (click re-fragmented)?

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Book Autopsies

October 23, 2007 – 10:49 pm

Via Ryan: Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies at Centripetal Notion.
awesome, book, books, art, sculpture

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Stupid Trademark Law

October 18, 2007 – 12:11 pm

Story: Timbuk2 develops a new line of messenger bags that features fabric made of recycled material (engineered by RootPhi). Some of the fabric contains a symbol that Target lawyers say is their logo. Target lawyers cease and desist Timbuk2.
Thing is, the trademarked Target logo is a roundel, commonly used around the world (easily recognized in [...]

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Banned Books Week Dilemma

October 4, 2007 – 10:33 am

Our intention is to feature ?a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech,? but on this post about Holocaust denial I found myself unwilling (and unable) to link to the free, online PDF full text of David Irving’s Hitler?s War. And when we discovered it wasn’t in our [...]

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Scratch-n-Sniff

August 24, 2007 – 5:31 am

Hey, I’m a fan of that old book smell too, can I get some scratch-n-sniff stickers?
smell, scratch-n-sniff, libraries, ebooks

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Usage Instructions

July 13, 2007 – 12:10 pm

What’s really angering about instructions [...] is that they imply there’s only one way [...] their way. And that presumption wipes out all the creativity. Actually there are hundreds of ways [...] and when they make you follow just one way without showing you the overall problem the instructions become hard to follow in such [...]

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Whose Technology Is It Anyway?

July 11, 2007 – 12:55 pm

I wasn’t planning on posting much about Keen’s Cult of the Amateur, but I did. And now I find myself posting about it again. Thing is, I’m a sucker for historical analogy, and Clay Shirky yesterday posted a good one that compared the disruptive effects of mechanized cloth production to today’s internet.
Yes, that’s actually the [...]

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Sweet bike

June 30, 2007 – 9:05 pm

Sweet bike

Originally uploaded by misterbisson.

Sent from my iPhone

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Two Books On A Shelf…

June 18, 2007 – 11:17 pm

Two books that just happened to be sitting next to eachother in the LC files:
001 47029455
003 DLC
005 20050826211147.0
008 761229s1946 xx 000 0 [...]

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Books I Now Want To Read…

May 29, 2007 – 7:27 pm

The problem with working on Scriblio is that I end up running into so many interesting looking books. Just this morning I discovered a number of recent acquisitions in the 19th Century and 20th Century subject feeds in my development instance (also available via RSS).
All of this is under active development, [...]

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Are You A Certified Asshole?

May 18, 2007 – 12:25 pm

Sure it’s a promo for his new book, but Bob Sutton is offering us all a chance to see if we’re assholes with the Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE).
After 24 questions like ?You secretly enjoy watching other people suffer and squirm? (hey, what’s wrong with a little schaedenfreud?) you’ll find yourself placed somewhere on the scale [...]

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David Halberstam On Competition

May 2, 2007 – 12:02 pm

Speaking at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism last month, David Halberstam struck the chord of competition journalists must struggle with. As a newspaper man who started at the smallest newspaper in Mississippi and worked his way up to the New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the Vietnam War, he [...]

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Nukerator, We’re Nukrawavable

April 27, 2007 – 12:35 pm

Will, Cliff (both above), and I recorded this song in one take in late 1999. Though, calling it a ?take? is overstating it. We were beyond silly drunk and lacked any talent for the task, but we had a mic in front of us, a guitar, and a willingness to open our mouths and let [...]

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