Canned Libraries: the 1936 version of "universal access to all human knowledge" (1)
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In this 1936 Modern Mechanix article, a fantasy about shrinking the Library of Congress to fit "in a few small filing cabinets" on microfiche/film. Once this is done, copies of the great library will be distributed to worthy institutions all over the world. This is one of the Ur-dreams of librarianship, what Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive calls "universal access to all human knowledge." Today's Internet was shaped by people who share the dream. ...
Norwegian Übër-Bläck-Mëtäl Devotees Captured In New Portrait Book (6)
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( Image above by Peter Beste. You're welcome! ) The LA Weekly has a feature up about a new book with portraits of very serious Norwegian Black Metal dudes. In True Norwegian Black Metal, photographer Peter Beste captures the "blackest of the black: apolitical and anti-Christian separatist self-preservationists who’d sooner make a lampshade out of their own skin than to try to convert fans." Snip from Siran Babayan's piece: Take, for example, Immortal singer-bassist Abbath ...
Photobooth book from Musée Mécanique (2)
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One of my favorite spots in San Francisco is the Musée Mécanique, a magnificent penny arcade filled with dozens of old timey arcade machines, mechanical music instruments, bizarre automatons, and, of course, a photobooth. It's a truly wonderful place to visit. Proprietor Dan Zelinsky is a terrific guy who restores and maintains the machines himself. The Musée's David Gallagher just emailed to update me that one of Dan's pet project, a book titled Lost And ...
Best book covers of 2008 (2)
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The Book Design Review blog's top book covers for 2008 are up. This is one of my favorite annual features -- and this year's includes some drop-dead gorgeous designs. I'm insanely jealous of Austin Grossman for getting that brilliant cover for his excellent book Soon I Will Be Invincible. I've mentioned Jordan Crane's wonderful cover for Chabon's Maps and Legends and the new edition of Harry Harrison's Make Room, Make Room, but why did no ...
The 21st century Noah’s Ark - Lilypad - floating city (1)
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The 21st century Noah’s Ark, called a Lilypad, would house 50,000 “climate refugees”.The island would include a lake, mountains and shops, and drift on ocean currents.Its designer, Belgian Vincent Callebaut, said: “It creates a harmonious coexistence of humans and nature.” Subscribe in a reader - curiousphotos.blogspot
Boing Boing's Holiday Gift Guide part five: Nonfiction (8)
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Here's part five of the Boing Boing Holiday Gift Guide, a roundup of the bestselling items from this year's Boing Boing reviews. Today's installment is nonfiction books. Don't miss the rest of the posts: kids' stuff, fiction, gadgets and comics. Tomorrow I'll wrap it up with DVDs and CDs. Good Calories, Bad Calories (Gary Taubes) Gary Taubes, whose NYT article on Atkins rekindled the low-carb eating movement, sums up his reserarch on low-carb eating Original ...
George Orwell: Egg man (koo koo ka joob) (7)
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I've been riveted by the latest installments in the Orwell Diary blog, in which the Orwell Society posts one diary entry from George Orwell's 1938 journal every day as a blog-post. Since mid-October, the journal entries have been from a rented villa in Marrakech (sic), and Orwell's journals have grown increasingly obsessed with the number of eggs his hens are laying (not many). Every time I see an entry like this: "21.11.38: Two eggs," I ...
James Boyle's "The Public Domain" -- a brilliant copyfighter's latest book, from a law prof who writes like a comedian (11)
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Jamie Boyle, of the Duke Center for the Public Domain, has a new book out, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. Boyle ranks with Lessig, Benkler and Zittrain as one of the most articulate, thoughtful, funny and passionate thinkers in the global fight for free speech, open access, and a humane and sane policy on patents, trademarks and copyrights. A legal scholar who can do schtick like a stand-up comedian, Boyle is ...
Boing Boing's Holiday Gift Guide part four: Comics, graphic novels and funnybooks - Boing Boing (11)
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Here's part four of our week-long "Best of Boing Boing" holiday gift guide: basically, it's a list of the bestselling items from among the stuff we reviewed this year, reflecting your favorite items from among our picks. Today's list is comics, graphic novels, funnybooks and the like. Don't miss the previous installments: kids' stuff, fiction and gadgets! Tomorrow's nonfiction day, and Monday'll finish up the series with DVDs and CDs. Laika (Nick Abadzis) Graphic novel ...
Thomas Schostok {ths} releases his new book: Mr. Trash (1)
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To be honest I’ve never heard of Thomas Schostok, aka {ths}, until I received a mail today informing me of the release of his new book entitled “Mr. Trash”. I am really happy I got notified, because what I was about to see (and show you now) blew me away. Instead of trying to come up with some copy-paste, slightly modified text, I will simply give you the official press release: ESSEN, GERMANY – September ...
Book review: Born Digital (1)
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Some months ago I announced the publication of the book Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser. The book, which grew out of the digital natives project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center, investigates “what it means to grow up in a mediated culture and the ways in which technology inflects issues like privacy, safety, intellectual property, media creation, and learning,”. In a long review in the Washington ...
Shepard Fairey's Orwell covers -- books now on sale! (1)
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Back in April, I told you about the new Shepard Fairey cover designs for Penguin's reissue of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. They've just gone on sale! Link to Nineteen Eighty-Four, Link to Animal Farm
CBC Radio Sets All-Time Records (1)
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CBC Radio cleaned up in the latest audience measurement report released by BBM. In radio they call it the book, and it was an outstanding showing, overall CBC Radio One: Set an all-time record for total audience share of 11.1 per cent, which is up from 9.9 per cent a year ago; Achieved a national audience of 3.5 million listerners, which is up almost a quarter million; Set records in Toronto. For the first time ...
What could be 2009 bestsellers for third party sellers (1)
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife With the economy in shambles and unemployment expected to rise, the prediction that self help books, and books that talk about frugal living might be the hot titles to hold and sell for 2009. There are a lot of books like this out on the market already, but as cash strapped customers look for ever increasing bargains, self help books and saving money books are going to be best ...
What to do when you have the only copy of a book on the internet (1)
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Recently we have been fortunate enough to run across a number of books that we have the only copy that we can find on the internet. This is the best position for an on line book seller to find themselves in when they are the only ones, but then drawback to this is that if you have the only copy available, you might not be able to find a ...
Little Brother UK launch at Forbidden Planet tomorrow (3)
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A reminder that tomorrow is the UK launch and signing for Little Brother at Forbidden Planet in London -- 1PM! You can also pre-order signed copies through the Forbidden Planet site. Hope to see you there! Saturday 29, November, 1:00PM - 2:00PM Forbidden Planet London Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR Our Price: £6.99 Little Brother UK launch/signing at Forbidden Planet London, Nov 29
Branka Ćurčić, Zoran Pantelić - Public Netbase: Non Stop Future, New Practices in Art and Media (1)
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Revolver, ISBN 9783865884558, Germany, 2008, English t0/Public Netbase has undoubtedly played an important historical role in new media art and politics. Konrad Becker, its initiator and the visionary behind Public Netbase, placed the epicentre of its activities in Vienna in early nineties (its website was one of the very first on the scene with plenty of texts and biographies). This anthology of texts spans a decade of essays, which detail events from the early pioneer ...
Boing Boing's Holiday Gift Guide part two: Fiction (15)
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Here's part two of my Boing Boing Holiday Gift Guide -- wherein I list the bestselling items that have been reviewed here in the past twelve months. Today, it's fiction. Don't miss yesterday's Kids' stuff and stuff about kids post, too! (Note that some of these titles appeared on yesterday's kids' list -- I wasn't sure how to handle cross-referencing for items that qualified for more than one list, so I just duplicated them for ...
کتاب نگهداري و تعميرات بهره ور فراگير آماده چاپ شد (1)
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حدود دو سالي مي شود که بروي تهيه کتاب نت بهره ور فراگير Total Productive Maintenance وقت صرف کرده ام در اين کتاب به تشريح اجزا نت بهره ور فراگير در ويرايش سوم آن پرداخته مي شود و هم چنين مباني و اجراي مميزي نگهداري و تعميرات به صورت مفصل ارائه مي گردد.مبناي اين [...]
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