The Surprising Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction | The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-surprising-things-statistics-tell-us-about-fiction
Book Review: Raise A Genius! | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/31/book-review-raise-a-genius/
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Central Intelligence Agency https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/?curator=MediaREDEF
📚 Finished reading The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons by David Fitzgerald
📚 Finished reading The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons by David Fitzgerald
The Nihilism of Julian Assange | by Sue Halpern | The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/nihilism-of-julian-assange-wikileaks/
You open your favorite book to find burglars written into it, on a heist to steal one of its best ideas
Kafka’s Joke Book - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/kafkas-joke-book
https://www.facebook.com/notes/dan-clore/recommended-books-on-alternative-little-known-history/1758034257545088/ https://www.facebook.com/notes/dan-clore/recommended-books-on-alternative-little-known-history/1758034257545088/
These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyoa-choose-your-own-adventure-maps
Left on a stack of paper overnight, the book has extended roots: Mutated sentences snake over the sheets, curl around glyphs and diagrams
Trust not those who’ve heard the voice of God, any god. No prophet could perceive a whole world and not burst, no holy book could hold one.
Welcome To The Discordian Library [D.I.S.L.I.B. – the Discordian Internet Society’s Library of Interesting Books] https://dislib.lima.zone/doku.php
Book Club 8: Susan Napier‘s Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3osCGNf-1w
THINK TANK; The Penis as Text for Serious Thinkers: Be Careful What You Wish For - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/books/think-tank-the-penis-as-text-for-serious-thinkers-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html
+++ advice to “read old books” and binge on fossil meme reserves pinpointed as cause of observed noosphere heatup +++
“To complete the ritual, we need a really bloody book. Fortunately, I brought a map of Europe
Having escaped their pages, many wild books roam history now. Venomous plot threads ensnare the unlucky, turn their lives into narratives.
And there’s always the great http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ #lisp
@kas@enotty.dk I have a kobo, but i actually need it to read books. I bookmarked the page in case i ever get a replacement… :)
“you’re so deep in the closet, if I went to fetch you they’d write a book about my adventures and call it chronicles of narnia”
Really liked A Closed and Common Orbit, nice to read a scifi story about character development! Next book: Arkwright by Allen Steele
among memes, there are pioneer species that establish a cultural shared context that other memes then settle (e.g. books and other OC)
Weird, the same repice serves 8 to 10 ppl in the book. I can’t believe we eat the whole pot alone… :) Happy you liked it!
Druids, stranded on an island, build a Frankenstein tree out of driftwood, rip the pages out of books to give it leaves
The book has long ended but somehow there’s always another page behind the last one. You keep reading. The hero settles down, has children,
The witch’s books lose their pages in autumn and are reduced to their spines in winter. But each spring, they’ll grow new knowledge.
status: reading books by the light of the burning library
books grow in this library, ripe with memetic spores, fruiting bodies of an extensive mythelium system that supplies them with ideas
it’s a bit sad, but displaying books on shelves when you could just keep them on hard drives feels hollow and fake now, and I love books
Right, they booked the safari! Thunderclaps resound. In the distance, a few trees stiffen and collapse.↵Your chair massages your back.
Rinse a few books with the same flask of Lethe and you may actually gain memories from drinking it. Tastes vile, procedure not recommended.
mind virus: words only, needs a host brain↵mind bacterium: tiny self-sufficient mind, can infect brains but is perfectly happy to eat books
reanimated trees are sickly, pale, infused with the necromancer’s thoughts instead of their own - books are zombie trees
At some point, we stop storing knowledge in books and just archive entire minds to resurrect when needed. To attain immortality, know.
museum of empty receptacles: a vase, a book of white pages, a vacant human body, a wordless sentence (all breath and pauses), a vain promise
world words, holographic carriers of meaning from which you can reconstruct the entire book, language, society, universe
New passages are set aside and brought into order in the hope of identifying the intruding book, but none of the librarians recognize it.
Letters scramble into the margins as you open the book. It seems you accidentally opened a hive. Ink figures start crawling up your arm.
Books hang off the author’s mind, fat and lazy memetic ticks, yet she works tirelessly to feed them. What is it with these authors?
You open the book to wind up a music box attached to its back. With every chapter, a new soundtrack slides into place and plays.
Books of lost knowledge materialize in the secret library every day. Their pages vanish under the reader’s eye as their secrets are un-lost.
In the evening, acolytes bring empty pages, unformed clay and caged parrots. In the morning, they carry away books, sculptures and songs.
Quills used for spell books must withstand strong magical currents, but also be magically inert unlike wandwood.
an anagrammatical book that makes sense even if its pages have been shuffled
Every page of my earth orbit book opens a portal to space. Found an NSA satellite in it once, glued a fly to its camera to mess with them.
she’s reading me like a book: staring at me, thumbing through pages I didn’t know I had, leaving coffee stains, discarding me for the day