Actual book summary encountered today while I was selecting new books: "Poetry consisting of found text from Google search results." And I find myself surprised, not at the fact that someone would publish a book of found poetry from collaged text, or that they'd assemble it out of Google-fragments, but that the resulting poems would […]
… especially those of you on Twitter: I just learned (via Twitter, of course) that someone has set up Twitter accounts for a whole bunch of Battlestar Galactica characters. I’m currently following @billadama and @cylonhybrid. (But where’s Laura Roslin?) And looking forward to getting cable in my new apartment when I move at the end […]
I've been trying to figure out the bus system for my soon-to-be neck of the woods, and have thus far found the regional transit agency's website a tad challenging to navigate. So I made up my own transit map instead, with the bus routes marked on it, plus grocery stores and coffee shops and sundry […]
One of the good things about this weekend’s conference was discovering common interests with fellow presenters. During one of those common-interest-finding conversations, I had an idea: “Wouldn’t it be neat,” I said, “if there were some kind of working group for people who work on both the history of the book and what’s happening with […]
Fascinating: The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century. While printing in Asia pre-dates European activity by several hundred years, the rapid expansion of the trade following the discovery of […]
Interesting convergence: On Sunday, NPR’s On the Media did a segment on Gordon Bell’s "lifelogging" project, and the consequences for human memory of keeping a digital record of everything one does. Interestingly, Clive Thompson, the second interviewee in the segment, mentioned both the potential for catastrophic loss of data (if your hard drive is your […]
Lately I’ve been hearing about one of the disadvantages of commercial e-books (specifically, the kind sold by vendors like NetLibrary or Ebrary): you can’t lend them from one library to another. Dead-tree-based books can be ILL’d and shared among library consortia, but you can’t ship an e-book when it comes with restrictions about which users […]
I’ve just started using Twitter. Check out the "Twitter updates" widget on the right-hand side of this page — and, if you’re using it too, feel free to tweet at me! Does anyone else picture Paul Klee’s Twittering Machine every time they contemplate Twitter?
Just as I’m wrapping up work on my controlled vocabulary for knitting (final project #2, almost done), I come across this: KnitML, the knitting markup language. As the About page puts it, Imagine being able to do the following for any KnitML-based pattern: Render a pattern in either written directions or a chart, dependent on […]
There are still a boatload of projects waiting to be done, but I’ve finished my final website project for my web design class: a guide to movies about opera. I had a lot of fun working on it, and I think I’ll most likely keep it going after this quarter is over. If you’re interested, […]