Things Found in Books | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/thingsfoundinbooks/pool/
The Secret History of Dune - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/
Silicon Valley’s Bonfire of the Vainglorious - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/silicon-valleys-bonfire-of-the-vainglorious
Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html
The Soviet Matrix: On the Strugatsky Brothers’ “The Doomed City” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-soviet-matrix-on-the-strugatsky-brothers-the-doomed-city
Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.
Posthumanism for Regular Humans Trapped in an Inhuman World: On “The Human Reimagined” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/posthumanism-for-regular-humans-trapped-in-an-inhuman-world-on-the-human-reimagined/
Book Review and Reflection: David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” – The New Antique https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/
Today in bot food: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/04/british-librarys-collection-of-obscene-writing-goes-online
One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.
Don’t expect too much, it’s rather basic, but already enough to read at least non technical books.
Next year’s hit isekai: ‘In Another World with My Copy of Ryan North’s New Book’
Millennial mysticism: why contemporary poets are turning to the occult https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/01/Spells-21st-Century-Occult-Poetry-review
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/
Loper OS » The Book http://www.loper-os.org/?p=13
Functional programming books overview http://alexott.net/en/fp/books/#sec12
fogus: Some Lisp books (and then some) http://blog.fogus.me/2012/07/25/some-lisp-books-and-then-some/
Erik Kwakkel • Six books, one binding http://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/post/74300240443/six-books-one-binding-heres-something-special
We can try to define intellectual constructs as having ‘nothing but essence’ but maybe we should take a page out of Guy Debord’s book and say they are ‘nothing but appearance’. They can appear in contradictory ways because there’s no underlying structure.
I love books about the history of tech, but no matter how well-researched, they’re typically mostly a documentation of tech’s mythology (or some countermythology). I prefer the countermythographies.
Towards the Future Book https://kottke.org/18/12/towards-the-future-book
GitHub - trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. Especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security… https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mark-fishers-k-punk-and-the-futures-that-have-never-arrived
Book Club 14: Fandom Unbound - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amxuDFWtJwY
Generated Book Gallery – 60212: INTERACTIVITY & COMPUTATION http://cmuems.com/2018/60212f/deliverables/7-due-11-16/generated-book-gallery/
Book Review: The Mind Illuminated | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/
NaNoGenMo/book.md at master · JKirchartz/NaNoGenMo · GitHub https://github.com/JKirchartz/NaNoGenMo/blob/master/2018/SherlockShuffle/output/book.md
The One Book That Made Me Take the Long View of the Future: God Emperor of Dune | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/07/the-one-book-that-made-me-take-the-long-view-of-the-future-god-emperor-of-dune/
Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lvjgt/in_games_and_books_there_are_always_adventurers/
squeakland : resources : books : reading list http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
DigiBarn Books: A Decade of Research @ Xerox PARC: Scientific American Article on Xerox Alto, 1977 http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/xerox-parc-1970-80/alto-article/index.html
I’m going to be periodically posting research resources for the new book here, as I find them: http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html
I’m in this weird situation with the new book where, of the systems I’m planning to cover, the one I’m most familiar with is menuet. Imagine being in a position where, for any set of things, the most familiar item is menuet.
Once you’re well-established as a protagonist and have survived multiple books, you can blackmail the author into giving you plot armor, try it out
Bad idea of the day: write poems, one a day, each on the back side of a tile, cementing it into place after you write it. your bathroom wall becomes a hidden book. tell no one.
The Original Master of Ghost Stories | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-original-master-of-ghost-stories
Edward Snowden Reconsidered | by Tamsin Shaw | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/09/13/edward-snowden-reconsidered/
The Other Secret Twist: On the Political Philosophy of The Good Place - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/secret-twist-political-philosophy-good-place/
A Python Script that Writes 800-page Children’s Books – Zach Whalen http://www.zachwhalen.net/posts/a-python-script-that-writes-800-page-childrens-books/
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/