Entries Tagged as 'books'
Breakfast Links: Northern Lights, Ultimate & Telecoms Revolution
In a daring display of one-upsmanship scientists of the auroras borealis were not content with all the press their newer noctilucent cloud studying brethren were getting and have discovered (maybe) the source of power for these northern lights! Using satellites and magic they believe that they are caused by “comes from a stream of charged [...]
Categories: books · breakfast links · science
Amazon Kindle, the e-book reader that actually makes it?
So Newsweek (thanks scott) just broke the news on Amazon’s new e-book reader, the Kindle. This project has been slow to the table and there’s been lots of speculation on the topic before now but Bezos wanted to take his time and get it right. I, for one, am really hoping that he’s gotten it [...]
Categories: amazon · books · gear · kindle · the future · the love · wishlist
Breakfast Links: US Gov’t Blog, Frost Giants & Lobsters
Well you’ve been clamoring for it and now you got it - GovGab, Your U.S. government blog. Catchy! It’s a wierd blog with a mish mash of random things - feels more like a personal blog than, you know, a government blog, whatever that is. But you can tell it’s a gov’t blog because it [...]
Categories: animals · blogs · books · breakfast links · sci-fi
Mini Book Review: Boy by Takeshi Kitano
When I read on Tokyo Mango that Beat Takeshi had written a book, it wasn’t very long before I Amazon Prime’d it down to my place, reading it two days later. (Yes, that’s right, I used Amazon Prime as a verb. Believe it.) Now, the Tokyo Mango piece, I think, was a little misleading in [...]
Review: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Ok, so I’m behind the times, I just read the book. That’s life. Turns out, the book is really quite a good read. I wasn’t sure what to expect and to be honest I was a little skeptical - the premise seemed a touch crazy. Interstellar war is now waged by geriatrics from Earth who [...]
Privatizing Infrastructure (or more snow crash)
I wrote a bit before on what I think of as the snow-crashification of the world. It’s happening on a few fronts, oddly enough for such an extreme vision, but one of them was the privatization of infrastructure. So I came across another article in BusinessWeek about this very topic that I found pretty interesting [...]
Card talks about the Ender’s Game movie
I just read this article that puts forth Orson Scott Card’s thoughts on the status of the Ender’s Game movie (as always via sfsignal). This is definitely in my top 3 sci-fi novels and I would love to see this turned into a great movie. Nevertheless I have extremely strong doubts that anyone would take [...]
Tolkien’s latest novel?
So, I may be the last geek around who hasn’t read any of the Lord of the Rings (really I tried, and I will try again, but seriously, the beginning of Fellowship was just too much for me to bear when I was a teenager). But I’m curious about the Children of Hurin - a [...]
On the Snow Crash-ification of the world
UPDATE: I just found a little bit more on the ongoing privatization of infrastructure that is an important part of the vision. Posted a couple more thoughts on it.
Boy do I love Snow Crash. I’ve read it more times than I care to remember, I’m pretty sure the day after I bought so long ago [...]
Review: Mechademia
I’ve finally finished reading Mechademia: Emerging Worlds off Anime and Manga. This is the first volume of an annual publication for anime, manga and the fan arts. As the name suggests it promotes an academic view of these topics, which I think is a wonderful idea.
The variety of topics is pretty wide - anywhere [...]
