Recently recieved as an early birthday present (very early indeed) a fantastic book Flip Flop Fly Ball by Craig Robinson. I had seen a few shots from the book and knew instantly when I saw it that I would love it. (I love graphical representations of information and have the amazing Charles Joseph Minard depiction [...]
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“We know from lots of other situations that the Scandinavian nations lead the world when it comes to such important things like environmental matters, gender equity, income equality. But amazingly, its not just Finland where they need a lot of coffee amidst all the darkness to make it through the day. But its Norway, Sweden [...]
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Just read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson the first of his three part millennium trilogy published after he passed away. I enjoyed the book a lot, figured no need for a review here as it’s an epic bestseller and it seems like everyone else has already read it. So I’ll only [...]
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Users with disabilities are fighting back against a recent attempt by the Authors Guild to shut down the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech feature. About 300 people drawn from the National Federation of the Blind and partner organizations protested outside the offices of the Authors Guild in New York Wednesday in hopes of reversing the Guild’s stance. [...]
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If you’ve been fortunate enough to catch me getting into a rant recently on the subject you already know that I just finished The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, a Berkley journalism prof and NY Times magazine contributor. The book, which I had been meaning to read for a long time, hit upon exactly a [...]
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Headed out west for a couple days tomorrow and figured I mention a few interesting things I saw recently, so just a hodgepodge post: Coldplay is being sued for copyright infringement for their song Viva la Vida by guitarist Joe Satriani, (see a YouTube video comparison) check out his much lesser known song in comparison [...]
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If you hadn’t heard, the Dallas Cowboys are almost done building a new stadium and from the sounds of it it’s a bit over the top. Sounds specially over-the-top compared to some others, especially when you think that Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium is pretty sparse for the ‘biggest’ team in teh world. Reading about [...]
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So we live in an era where I can renew my library books merely with a mouse click (even if they are already overdue – basically stops the bleeding) yet for some reason I still end up with overdue books and massive (by library standards I don’t know) fines. I went out of town not [...]
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I finished up Pillars of the Earth the other day and instead of starting in on another page turner (Pillars was just such a book, despite the topic of being about the building of a cathedral the book moves really fast and you get pretty taken into the back stabbing, the rivalries, and the crazy [...]
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Out last night walking the dog in just a light rain jacket (dripping trees from all the rain) but it must have still been 60 degrees at 9:30pm. The air was laced with the Wonder Bread factory’s baking and the sky was lit from behind in a somewhat surreal fashion – kinda in disbelief that [...]
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