On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Virtuoso Prologue https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/29/virtuoso.html #freeculture #bookclub
occasionally, translations are better than the originals, so why not take your favorite book and try and craft the perfect language for it
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Pentagon https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/22/pentagon.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Prelude to Whitespace https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/15/white.html #freeculture #bookclub
so, I actually did throw out my Csound book last night. Tore out all the pages and recycled them.
I never thought I’d ever say this, but I am officially done with Csound. I’ve been using Csound since I was 16 years old, but now I feel like throwing my copy of the Csound book in the trash. Good riddance.
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Morevna, Episode 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/08/morevna3.html #freeculture #bookclub
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? | Hacker News
When people are born, they all start good, but even though they all start out about the same, you ought to see them after they have had time to become different from one another by picking up habits here and there!“. Translation Dr. Linebarger, aka Cordwainer Smith Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? | Hacker News
Geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck in it. Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay Geography is only physics slowed down and with a… - Quotes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Books
Book Village | Donne, prête, vends tes livres autour de chez toi ⌘ https://bookvillage.app
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club - Magnificent Mechanical Man §37–49 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/01/manuel.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club - Magnificent Mechanical Man §25–36 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/07/25/manuel.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club - Magnificent Mechanical Man §13–24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/07/18/manuel.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club - Magnificent Mechanical Man §1–12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/07/11/manuel.html #freeculture #bookclub
Looking for a comprehensive book on gardening and planting (best if #Lindy too) ⌘
Consciousness, bicamerality and book reviews ⌘
My book library: the autistic thing I’ve done this weekend… ⌘ http://lukesmith.xyz/library.html
New video on new books ⌘
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club - Forgotten https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/07/04/forgotten.html #freeculture #bookclub
The past few months, you’ve often found your books to be missing letters, replaced by white space. Cleaning up one day, in one of your notebooks, you find a nest of words, eggshells, a poem about a bird, exiting by a window just as you turn around
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club - Won’t You Come In? https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/06/27/comein.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club - Elephants Dream https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/06/20/dream.html #freeculture #bookclub #blender
Best setup yet: Books on iPad with voice control on; typing notes in a text editor on a separate device. Say “swipe left” to turn the page, with no command-tabbing needed.
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Stardrifter - Motherload https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/06/13/motherload.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Seeds, Chapter 5 to Chapter 6 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/06/06/seeds-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Seeds, Chapter 4 to Chapter 4.5 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/30/seeds-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Seeds, Prologue to Chapter 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/23/seeds.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club - Jathia’s Wager https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/16/jathia.html #freeculture #bookclub
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Culture Book Club - Orang-U https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/09/orangu.html #freeculture #bookclub
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Culture Book Club https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/02/freeculture.html #freeculture #bookclub
Time to write a RISC-V emulator I guess, https://book.rvemu.app/
#til https://www.edelweiss.plus book catalog platform
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Victor Séjour’s Le Mulâtre https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/23/mulaitre.html #books #literature #blackhistorymonth #translation #french #announcement
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: The Barnes & Noble “Diverse Covers” Thing https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/09/afam-lit.html #books #diversity #blackhistorymonth #publicdomain #readinglist
Mu’s translator is growing complex. Lots of book-keeping for entering/exiting scopes: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103053133325948545
One hesitates to call these new things ‘books’, they come with cameras and pulse sensors and read you just as much as you read them, and if you don’t take care, you find yourself on page 3000 of a story written just for you, with no one to relate it to
I used to write poems, but I stopped. Now I want to make a book filled with poems for my gf. I got 2 months, wish me luck
Random link from the archives: https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/ originally archived Tue Feb 5 07:39:06 EST 2019
Bad idea of the day: whenever somebody talks about Green Book, pretend you think they’re talking about Green Room
for somebody with no interest in actually making movies, I sure do read a lot of books about how to write screenplays
Space Cartoons to Space Psychedelia: How Sci-Fi Book Covers Evolved - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/space-cartoons-to-space-psychedelia-how-sci-fi-book-covers-evolved/263952/
Book Review: Inventing The Future | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/18/book-review-inventing-the-future/
How to self-publish your novel as an ebook - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18285875/self-publishing-ebook-amazon-kindle-epub-book-how-to-editing-art-sales-strategy
Recommended: McKeever’s book about the 90s https://mipmckeever.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/1/3/94130725/90sbookfinal.pdf
Committee for Supporting the Booking of Chapo Trap House on Joe Rogan
Dead Precedents by Roy Christopher review: how hip-hop and cyberpunk hijacked culture | Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/17/dead-precedents-how-hip-hop-defines-future-roy-christopher-review-cyberpunk
An Interview with Nick Harkaway: Algorithmic Futures, Literary Fractals, and Mimetic Immortality - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-interview-with-nick-harkaway-algorithmic-futures-literary-fractals-and-mimetic-immortality/
The Man Who Questioned Everything | by Lynn Hunt | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/03/07/diderot-man-who-questioned-everything/
Update: if you buy the paperback version of my book, now you’ll be able to get the ebook for free. (Dunno why anybody would want that.) Also, the ebook now has wikipedia links for various terms via X-Ray, in case you didn’t know who Thad Starner was or something.