Category Archives: books

Reading on the iPad — Shawn Blanc

While I have no doubt that the people creating digital magazines now have a mindset that print is of a higher quality, I have to think some of the current design of these apps comes down to a few more practical points: They don’t know yet what’s going to become of digital magazines and whether [...]

Turning Picture Books into Art House Films: The Story of Weston Woods

This is weird. This post came in my RSS feed, but I get a 404 when I go to the Wired site. Do a search on the site and see the link, and you’ll still get the same 404. I’ve seen this with them before; they seem to pull posts after the fact. Don’t know [...]

2008 Best Graphic Novel Lists

Definitely have to check these lists out …

What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami

I love programming and technology, working for startups and reading Haruki Murakami novels. Didn’t really expect these things to cross, though. But, isn’t that what’s so great about Murakami?

Tex Arcana Complete Story

I vaguely remember reading this when I was younger (this post mentions that it was published in Heavy Metal). I remember the drawing style more than anything to do with the story. Anyway, here is the entire compilation.

Fog Mound #01: Travels of Thelonious

Might be worth checking out this book for Julian. Parts of the book are told graphically, and the plot sounds like it might be good. Also one of the books recommended by Powell’s staff as best of 2006.

NYTimes Top Ten Books of 2006

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The New Yorker: Here’s Why

This is why I read the New Yorker. The article by Malcom Gladwell is ostensibly a book review, but really, it’s an essay on the book’s premise of the types of reasons we give for things/actions depending on the situations. He moves from an interaction between a mother and one of her children, to another [...]

Recommended Reading | The New York Public Library

Wow. I saw a reference to this list, checked it out, liked what I saw and decided to see if they had other lists. Boy, do they.

Why I Haven’t Been to Vegas

Yes, I’ve never been to Vegas, and I don’t plan on going any time too soon. So, I don’t really have a right to judge, right? But this quote from Malcolm Gladwell fulfills all my stereotypes of the city, so now I don’t even think I need to go to do that. BTW: the article [...]