Now this sounds pretty cool: Fahrenheit 451 as a graphic novel.
I’ll be sure to check that out.
Category Archives: Books
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com
I like technology. I like books.
Scratch that. I love books. Want to know why? Because once you own a book, it’s your’s. Not the bookstore’s. Your’s.
Want to know why I don’t have a Kindle and just have some ebooks I use Microsoft Reader for?
This is why. Turns out a publisher decided not to offer electronic editions of George Orwell, so Amazon rushed full steam ahead and deleted Orwell’s books from it’s customer’s Kindles.
Um, kiss my ass Amazon.
Ironically, they picked Orwell, who, of course was so focused on the ills of censorship and totalitarian rule.
I have both 1984 and Animal Farm on my shelf at home and you can find an electronic edition of the former here. For Animal Farm you may be out of luck on a legal e-book option.
Audacity of Nope: Supermax prison tells inmate that Obama’s books harmful to national security – Los Angeles Times
So, apparently our law enforcement system considers our nation’s leader’s words as too dangerous for just anyone to read.
Look, he’s in charge now and his ideas have value. Understand that and adjust accordingly.
Las Vegas Weekly : Idiot America: How the other half lives
Here’s a writeup on a book I’m going to try to hunt down at the library soon.
Apparently someone has been investigating the loci of stupidity amongst some of our creationists/global warming deniers/morons in our midst.
We’ve probably seen most of this on The Daily Show or something, but what the hell? I plan on reading it in print form.
He did it all for the Wookiee
I’ve been wrapping up the last book of the Star Wars New Jedi Order series, The Unifying Force. As far as hobbies go, this one is pretty benign. And for a book series that has had its ups and downs, it sure the heck finished on a high quality note. Just figured I’d share that in case you are really full of spare time and nothing else to do.
Well, Mom has sent along some newspaper clippings from the Galva and Kewanee papers. If I can either get to a scanner or find a way to obtain them in some other way, I’ll post them up.
I’ve been kind of busy on a temp job I’ve had, which has just wrapped up. Maybe some more work from it later, who knows. In the meantime, I’ve been accumulating links like a mad man.
From our pal Evil Ned, a site that hurts the mind as much as it tickles the funny bone.
From the land of delusion, we learn that the Maoists’ Long March was shorter than we’ve all been told, CBS is a weak-willed pack of chumps when it comes to presidential biography type flicks, and Canadians are in on this Nigerian email scam business.
In other news, Rhode Island is apparently a rampant comparison yardstick used by writers. Another article tackles the curious nature of champion Kenyan runners, and yet one more approaches that oft-asked question (presumably someone was asking it), “What if Guy Fawkes’ bomb had gone off?” Yes, these stories vaguely interest me. Move on if they bore you to death.
From the tech desk (fine, my same cluttered desk), we have a story on the guys who research map info for Mapquest and one about presidential candidates’ websites.
Speaking of that bunch, there is a game at Slate where you can narrow down your candidate of choice called Whack-a-Pol. At Kuro5hin, there is a slightly tongue-in-cheek article on why Bush is notusing Jesus as his inspiration as he has so often said.