Tag: book
Defender of Books
Today’s kids, ya gotta love em! With all the issues youTube has with copyright infringement, proper content, etc, etc when you come across video’s like this one it restores your faith that kids are really just kids with the same wonderful sense of creativity just using the technology that’s available. Thanks to Jenny at the […]
Posted: February 23rd, 2007 under General.
Tags: book, librarians, public_libraries
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Racing an Extreme Sport?
I just purchased a book called “Geek Logik” that breaks life questions down into a series of equations. Here is the one for us – Should you pursue an interest in extreme sports? An extreme sport is – Any activity that requires hurtling through the air while acting cool and which may result in dismemberment […]
Posted: January 5th, 2007 under Bicycle Racing.
Tags: aging, book, cycling, equations, extreme_sport, racing, stupidity, stupid_people
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Galatea 2.2
I have been catching up on back issues of Wired Magazine recently and came across this notice of Richard Powers’ new book “The Echo Maker”. The description sounded interesting. I researched Capgras syndrome and found that indeed it is real psychological disorder. However, rather than jump right into his current book I looked around at […]
Posted: January 3rd, 2007 under General.
Tags: book, brain, science_fiction, Wired_magazine
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