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• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Inner Touch

  January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark The Wall and the Books

  by Jorge Luis Borges I read, in past days, that the man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor, Shih Huang Ti, who…

  December 13 2009, 3:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark A reader’s guide to the art of science

  There is something stirring in the world of science writing. Since it emerged as a labelled corner of the bookshop, the genre has been dominated by practising scientists who also write;…

  December 7 2009, 5:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future of Reading

  The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for…

  November 3 2009, 9:30am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English

  In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that 6,000…

  November 1 2009, 3:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Who’s afraid of the avant-garde?

  There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart... Arts & books Who’s…

  October 27 2009, 11:53am | Comments

• Flickr 50 Years of Space Exploration

  October 11 2009, 11:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison

  After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

  October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Fictional Stimulus

  Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

  September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars

  Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No…

  September 17 2009, 2:24am | Comments

• Bookmark If zombies actually existed

  If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

  August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker

  I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

  July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

  July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark From Book to Anti-Book

  by Harry Polkinhorn - To arrive at a theoretical understanding of artists' books, it is perhaps best to begin, as Richard Kostelanetz points out in his essay entitled "Book Art," on…

  July 7 2009, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Fifty Books for Our Times

  We know it's insane. We know people will ask why on earth we think that an 1875 British satirical novel is the book you need to read right now—or, for that…

  June 29 2009, 4:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Maastricht Ceramic Design

  Petrus Regout (a name associated with worker exploitation even today) started a modern earthenware production factory in Maastricht, the capital of the far South-Eastern Dutch province of Limburg, in 1836. Sphinx…

  June 22 2009, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Atlas Obscura

  Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloguing all of the singular, eccentric,…

  June 16 2009, 3:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,' 'Catching Fire' take path-breaking…

  A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was "the…

  June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Bibliography The Third Policeman

  April 16 2009, 1:11pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Alan Watts - Wikipedia Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books…

  March 12 2009, 6:07pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Fictional location - Wikipedia Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as backdrop for their fictional works. Fictional locations are also created for use as settings in Role-playing games such as Dungeons…

  December 19 2008, 8:10am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org History as Revolution: A Dialogue

  April 3 2008, 10:10am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Inner Touch

  January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark The Wall and the Books

  by Jorge Luis Borges I read, in past days, that the man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor, Shih Huang Ti, who…

  December 13 2009, 3:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark A reader’s guide to the art of science

  There is something stirring in the world of science writing. Since it emerged as a labelled corner of the bookshop, the genre has been dominated by practising scientists who also write;…

  December 7 2009, 5:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future of Reading

  The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for…

  November 3 2009, 9:30am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English

  In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that 6,000…

  November 1 2009, 3:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Who’s afraid of the avant-garde?

  There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart... Arts & books Who’s…

  October 27 2009, 11:53am | Comments

• Flickr 50 Years of Space Exploration

  October 11 2009, 11:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison

  After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

  October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Fictional Stimulus

  Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

  September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars

  Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No…

  September 17 2009, 2:24am | Comments

• Bookmark If zombies actually existed

  If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

  August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker

  I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

  July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

  July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark From Book to Anti-Book

  by Harry Polkinhorn - To arrive at a theoretical understanding of artists' books, it is perhaps best to begin, as Richard Kostelanetz points out in his essay entitled "Book Art," on…

  July 7 2009, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Fifty Books for Our Times

  We know it's insane. We know people will ask why on earth we think that an 1875 British satirical novel is the book you need to read right now—or, for that…

  June 29 2009, 4:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Maastricht Ceramic Design

  Petrus Regout (a name associated with worker exploitation even today) started a modern earthenware production factory in Maastricht, the capital of the far South-Eastern Dutch province of Limburg, in 1836. Sphinx…

  June 22 2009, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Atlas Obscura

  Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloguing all of the singular, eccentric,…

  June 16 2009, 3:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,' 'Catching Fire' take path-breaking…

  A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was "the…

  June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Bibliography The Third Policeman

  April 16 2009, 1:11pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Alan Watts - Wikipedia Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books…

  March 12 2009, 6:07pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Fictional location - Wikipedia Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as backdrop for their fictional works. Fictional locations are also created for use as settings in Role-playing games such as Dungeons…

  December 19 2008, 8:10am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org History as Revolution: A Dialogue

  April 3 2008, 10:10am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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