Posted in Reading on Sep 8th, 2004 No Comments »
Lloyd Kahn of Whole Earth Catalog fame has a new book out: Home Work.
It has the same feel as the old catalog and other books that came out in that time frame and amazingly, many of the American funky homebuilders documented in it look like they’re the very same ones documented in earlier picture [...]
Posted in Reading on Aug 2nd, 2004 1 Comment »
The Biggest Game in Town has been called the best book on poker ever written. I have no idea if it is but it’s a great read and after reading it you will see the game and its culture quite differently. I’m not a poker player or even a card player but if I [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Reading on Jul 29th, 2004 No Comments »
Bill Atkinson released a book of photographs that is outstanding. I’ve followed his career, both at Apple (one of the fathers of the Macintosh, and author of MacPaint, HyperCard, and more) and as a photographer.
This latest work is some of his finest and is near and dear to my heart: in my earlier years as [...]
Posted in Reading on Jul 28th, 2004 No Comments »
Design for Community looks like a most interesting book, not just for webloggers but also for anyone putting a virtual community together with any tools.
Posted in Reading on Jul 27th, 2004 No Comments »
Mental_Floss looks like it might be a fun magazine to try. Anyone have any experience with it?
Posted in Reading on Jun 7th, 2004 No Comments »
What Comes Naturally is Louis Menand’s New Yorker essay on Steven Pinker’s ideas specifically in his book, The Blank Slate.
Menand is a brilliant writer and essayist although so is Pinker and it’s great fun to read a “liberal arts” view of a lay scientific idea.
I read this essay/review when it first came out in 2002 [...]
Posted in Reading on May 24th, 2004 No Comments »
This fun list of rules that demonstrate themselves is from the excellent stylebook Write Right! by Jan Venolia, Ten Speed Press, ISBN: 0-89815-676-9.
Sometimes a tongue-in-cheek approach is effective in fixing a subject in our minds. In that spirit, I present the following summary of the subjects covered in Write Right! - plus a few [...]
Posted in Reading on Mar 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
I just finished reading Under The Banner of Heaven, the newest book by Jon Krakauer, the author of Into Thin Air and Into the Wild, among a few others.
I feel a bit weird saying this about a best selling author but Krakauer is not a great writer but he chooses great subject matter and tells [...]
Posted in People, Reading on Feb 15th, 2004 No Comments »
A while back NPR did a wonderful piece piece called For Love of Insects. The author, Thomas Eisner is, well, a noted biologist, and a character.
For Love of Insects at Amazon
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