May 2012
1 post
Hack the Cover — by Craig Mod →
April 2012
4 posts
LibriVox is hiring a (contract) tech project... →
“All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact, everything on Ebay is already...”
– Collect ‘em all! | MetaFilter
March 2012
6 posts
Richard Nash @rnash comes to Montreal →
“[I told the fourth-graders] I was thinking of a number between 1 and 10,000....”
– John Holt (via maxistentialist)
From, Lightenings, by Seamus Heany
The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory A ship appeared above them in the air.
The anchor dragged along behind so deep It hooked itself into the altar rails And then, as the big hull rocked to a standstill,
A crewman shinned and grappled down the rope And struggled to release it. But in vain. ‘This man can’t bear our life here and will...
February 2012
11 posts
Words I can't spell without spellcheck
I have a different list, but here’s this list of spelling challenges from: maxistentialist:
Hierarchy
Privileges
Bureaucracy
Thorough
Caffeine
Medieval
Guarantee
Village
Questionnaire
Relevant
Caesar
Frustrated
Ridiculous
Sabotage
“An 18th-century Christmas dish, Hannah Glasse’s Good Goose Pye, is...”
– A Festive Menu Even a Cook Can Love
“Every time a book comes up in conversation, your dude friends will ask “Did you...”
– n 1: Listening to Books
“Killing the Competition: How the New Monopolies... →
via @acroll
Book: A Futurist's Manifesto: Part 2
We are very happy to announce the second installment of “Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto,” (published by O’Reilly and edited by Hugh McGuire of PressBooks and Brian O’Leary), with new essays from Eli James, Erin McKean, Terry Jones, Aaron Miller and Travis Alber, Brett Sandursky, Ron Martinez, Peter Brantley, Kassia Krozser and Hugh McGuire.
While Part One defined the...
“15. If you open a (book)store in a college town, and maybe even if you...”
– 25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore
via @acroll
January 2012
18 posts
“…The thing about jail is that there are bars on the windows and they won’t...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras,...”
– YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood (YCombinator)
SOPA BLACKOUT →
An Introduction to PressBooks: A Digital Book... →
“People die in America because people die in America. And people make poor...”
– Rick Santorum: No One Has Ever Died Because They Didn’t Have Health Care
What is it like to have an understanding of very... →
Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the... →
“Our son recently chose to read a book for English class that is way over his...”
– Rambling Follower: On LibriVox, A Connecticut Yankee and A Struggling Reader
December 2011
15 posts
The Offering of Images - Robert Ashley →
A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of... →
jeffepstein:
Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap.
I’m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA.
Step 1: Login to GoDaddy and get to the domain manager.
Step 2: Select all domains
Step 3: Click on the “Locking Icon”
Step 4:…
Off On a Tangent: Books I Loved That Were Not... →
offonatangent:
I am getting around to one of those dreaded “Best of” Lists - more on that eventually - but in the meantime, a different sort of list:
Stanley Ellin, THE EIGHTH CIRCLE (1958) — I pretty much flipped for this book, calling it the best private detective novel I’ve ever read. Eight months later I…
“This used to be funny, but now it’s really just terrifying. We’re dealing with...”
– Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How... →
“In fact, it is now usually cheaper to just try something than to sit around and...”
– The Internet, innovation and learning - Joi Ito’s Web
“As we all know, the Internet won. It was the triumph of distributed innovation...”
– The Internet, innovation and learning - Joi Ito’s Web via @mitchjoel
Lean back media: the shock of the old
Lean back media: the shock of the old
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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S.... →
Forgotten knowledge « Jon Udell →