Books
Book reviews primarily. Sometimes recommendations of new publications or mentioning of books I really want.
2008.03.19 11:12:00 EDT RIP: Arthur C. Clarke At Tuesday, March 18, 1:30am local time in Sri Lanka, the world lost a great man. I deeply enjoyed the Space Odyssey books (though I don't have much recollection of 2061, and 3001 is sub-par compared
2007.10.29 12:22:32 EDT Review: "Honest Broker" by R.A.Pielke Jr. I just finished reading a wonderful, thought-provoking book last night. The author, Roger A. Pielke, Jr., is Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for
2007.01.17 00:43:14 EST My "English Education" It was junior year coming up for me, and my advisor noticed that I still hadn't any classes for the Literature and Art category of the basic distribution requirements for the bachelor of arts. I opted
2007.01.11 19:04:46 EST RIP: Robert Anton Wilson Co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy (The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan), Discordian, and much more. Now the Historical Illuminatus Chronicles will never be finished :( Some lin
2005.10.10 21:07:01 EDT Journal: Yellow Sale Wheee! Cheaper books! I am still waiting to see if Thierry Aubin's Some Nonlinear Problems in Riemannian Geometry will ever be on the yellow sale (151 dollars is way more than I want to pay for that b
2005.08.17 13:51:35 EDT Ministry of Reshelving Jane McGonigal is launching The Ministry of Reshelving project. The goal is to relocate a total of 1984 copies of George Orwell's 1984 from its improperly shelved place at local bookstores (often: fic
2005.05.09 22:09:00 EDT Stoker's Dracula as a blog Someone is posting Stoker's Dracula in blog form. It is particularly appropriate since 1) it is out of copyright (legality is always important) 2) it is one of the best representatives of the epistola

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