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Books Read – February 2008

52. Vol. 1 by Geoff Johns – 2/3 52. Vol. 2 by Geoff Johns – 2/5 Year-long weekly comic series; the comic book equivalent of 24, as each comic issue covers one week. Purports to answer the question: what would happen (in the DC universe, mind) if the three big guns (ie, Superman, Batman and [...]

What I’ve been reading

THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR I just finished reading The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil a couple of days ago. What a mind-trip that is! Kurzweil, a self-styled singularitarian, believes that current trends in technology will culminate, at some point (say 2040), in a technological singularity–measured, simply, by the creation of self-improving AI mentalities. Or [...]

Summertime reading

The very best thing about not being in school anymore is being able to read whatever I want… Since I’ve finished my program, I’ve read a rather strange mix of books: In alphabetical order: After the Plague by T.C. Boyle A surprisingly grim little collection of short stories that I picked up after finishing The [...]

PKDick’s A Scanner Darkly: the book and the movie

A nice little essay on PKDick and his book A Scanner Darkly. Arctor/Fred is the kind of protagonist your overlords would love you to be. Grandmother’s recipe for totalitarianism was systematic de-education, paranoid psychotic involution, Oxycontin and Chips Ahoy. What more cranial-rectal exchange could your masters desire than that you should squander your meager resources [...]

Reading books over RSS Russell Beattie Notebook – Serialized eBooks via RSS

Russell Beattie has setup a (something-or-other) which serializes public domain ebooks as RSS feeds. I think this is totally great. You can browse an index of ebooks here: An index of public domain ebooks.