Category: Bookshelf

Books, Music, Movies, etc.

“Who Killed The Electric Car?”

“Who Killed The Elec­tric Car?” asks, and hopes to answer, just that. The film is a doc­u­men­tary about the fate of the GM EV‑1 project and sim­i­lar ev projects by oth­er auto man­u­fac­tur­ers, writ­ten and direct­ed by Chris Paine. (Image cour­tesy of Wikipedia. This is con­sid­ered to be a fair use of pro­mo­tion­al mate­r­i­al.) I’ve… Con­tin­ue read­ing “Who Killed The Elec­tric Car?”

Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”

Sat­ur­day night, I konked Angela over the head with a bil­ly club and drug her down to the West­hamp­ton Twin to see the doc­u­men­tary star­ing for­mer politi­cian Al Gore, Jr., An Incon­ve­nient Truth. Okay, so I real­ly did­n’t knock her out, either with a club or with drugs, but it did take some con­vinc­ing on… Con­tin­ue read­ing Al Gore’s “An Incon­ve­nient Truth”

Seed Magazine’s Site Is Out of Beta

Seed Mag­a­zine’s site is out of Beta today. That took less time than pret­ty much any­thing from Google and it looks loads bet­ter. One of the most inter­est­ing things is that their site is actu­al­ly built on top of Mov­able Type (although Word­Press would have been even cool­er). Of course, does­n’t it make per­fect sense… Con­tin­ue read­ing Seed Magazine’s Site Is Out of Beta

Amazon wiki

Fol­low­ing up on a pre­vi­ous post: I just hap­pened to notice that Amazon.com has had wiki posts dat­ing back to as ear­ly as late Novem­ber of last year. I think it’s a great fea­ture which uti­lizes Ama­zon’s prod­uct evan­ge­lists (who are legion). How­ev­er, it cur­rent­ly appears to be only open for games, books, and movies.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Ama­zon wiki

Google Library

Sci-Fi author and blog­ger Cory Doc­torow has writ­ten an excel­lent arti­cle at Boing­Bo­ing on why Google Book Search is one of the great­est things to ever hap­pen to the inter­net. Typ­i­cal of his writ­ing, it’s well worth the read and he demon­strates, at least in this case, how Google’s build­ing of the new Library of… Con­tin­ue read­ing Google Library

The IT Crowd

I watched the first three episodes of Chan­nel 4’s The IT Crowd last night. IT’s a show done by the writer behind Father Ted, also a very fun­ny show. IT does­n’t dis­ap­point, either. IT is online at Chan­nel 4’s site, but only avail­able to UK res­i­dents. I’d love to see this for­mal­ly brought over to… Con­tin­ue read­ing The IT Crowd

And You Thought My T‑Shirt Was Cool

…and you thought my t‑shirt was cool. Online pub­lish­er Blurb has announced their “slurp­er” that will grab con­tent from you blog and turn it into a very slick look­ing cof­fee table book. I real­ly love the idea of bring the online world into the phys­i­cal world, and these books look very nice.

Seeds of Joy

Seed Mag­a­zine I just fin­ished read­ing through my sec­ond issue of Seed mag­a­zine, as I was con­sid­er­ing get­ting a sub­scrip­tion. It’s already been on the news­stand for a year or so, but I tend to be behind the curve on these sorts of things. The mag­a­zine, which comes out bi-mon­th­­ly, is fan­tas­tic read­ing. It has… Con­tin­ue read­ing Seeds of Joy