these burbling kinders gotta (oh yez) froop mippy po doop!
(all the cornucopia of frazzling wompers! yeehaw!)
Author: shawn
Book-related marvelousness
Allconsuming.net plus Jon Udell’s LibraryLookup equals more fun than I’ve found in a while.
It certainly saves a step when accessing the local library.
New metaphors for technology and communication
Increasingly, I find that it’s this kind of thing that makes my brain curl in pleasing ways. Is this the big idea that I’m latching onto? It’s hard to tell. I’m more interested about this, in a hobbyhorse kind of way, than anything that I’ve been exposed to in the last few years.
A book to check on at the library
I don’t know if I would buy this book, but I’m definitely interested in reading it.
It’s not available at the library yet. Damn these 2003 book titles! Trying to catch up with a 21st century technology using 15th century technology…
Scary, future world
Scary science fiction about the dangers of copyright and technology.
Free, public libraries are a resource that must be defended.
something to read later
Iraq: Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong War
It’s pretty interesting, level-headed stuff, shorn of ideological baggage, seemingly…
creating a country…
What should I do with my life?
It’s a difficult question.
Here’s an interesting take on the question…
Ignoring (to a great extent) any possible spiritual dimensions to this thing.
GULP GULP GULP
More film archives
The Prelinger Archives has over 45,000 short films available in the public domain. They are free to download. It’s quite exciting.
The British Pathe archive allows access to 3500 hours of copyrighted newsreels from 1896 to 1970. (I have linked to this before.)