WebliminalBlog » Books http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog Notes from Webliminal Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © WebliminalBlog 2010 ernie@webliminal.com (WebliminalBlog) ernie@webliminal.com (WebliminalBlog) http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg WebliminalBlog http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog 144 144 Notes from Webliminal WebliminalBlog WebliminalBlog ernie@webliminal.com no no Searching for Media: Hyperlinks from Chapter 9, Searching and Researching, Fifth Edition http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/links-for-2010-06-01 http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/links-for-2010-06-01#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:02:10 +0000 ernie http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/?p=2921 Searching for Media

The collection of hyperlinks in Chapter 9 of Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web 5th Edition

Podcasts

Online Music

Images & Photos

Videos

Last updated June 1, 2010

]]> http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/links-for-2010-06-01/feed 0 Rosalyn Carter on Daily Show discussing mental healthhealth http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/rosalyn-carter-on-daily-show-discussing-mental-health http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/rosalyn-carter-on-daily-show-discussing-mental-health#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 15:10:36 +0000 ernie http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/?p=2805 Rosalyn Carter was on the Daily Show last night discussing mental health issues and her most recent book Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis. John Stewart did a great job interviewing her and giving her the opportunity to discuss issues important to her.

View the video.
Daily Show interview of Rosalyn Carter

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  • Invent with Python
    “”Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” is a free e-Book that teaches you how to program in the Python programming language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the example.”
    (tags: gamedev pygame python ebook)
]]> http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/links-for-2010-02-01/feed 0 Two interesting lists – Laze & Zorba http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/links-for-2010-01-13 http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/links-for-2010-01-13#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:07:14 +0000 ernie http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/?p=2392 APtBS suitcaseI came across two interesting lists recently. The first is Laze’s playlist on last.fm and the second is an equally excellent lsit – Zorba’s Guide to free eBooks. Both promise hours of enjoyment.

]]> http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/links-for-2010-01-13/feed 0 Open Access, Network Economy http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/about-the-internet-and-the-web/links-for-2009-07-02 http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/about-the-internet-and-the-web/links-for-2009-07-02#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:02:15 +0000 ernie http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/?p=1553 Near Guarda, Switzerland
The first two links deal with open access to information. The first is a presented as a parable that tells of an inventor who has a great idea and develops it into a product. However, the truckers, the ones who control the distribution lines will not agree to distribute it unless the inventor signs over all the intellectual property rights to the invention. it is the situation many researchers face when they wish to publish their findings in an academic journal. The second is a link to the Creative Commons site that deals specifically with education, ccLearn.
The last link is to Keven Kelley’s book about the network economy. I’ve read parts of it, and referred to it while developing some ideas about using non-text resources from the Web.

]]> http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/about-the-internet-and-the-web/links-for-2009-07-02/feed 0 In the Beginning … Was the Command Line http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:46:50 +0000 ernie http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/?p=1535

In the Beginning…was the Command Line

A short, interesting book that is a related series of essays about the relationship between Unix or Linux with a way to understand a computer. This is overlayed with a discussion of the superiority of Unix/Linux to the major windowed operating systems, OsX and Windows.
A particularly interesting and thought provoking essay is titled “Metaphor Shear.” It takes into the realm of philosophy in terms of dealing with the metaphor a windows system presents to us, and how we have learned to live with it, even to depend on it.
The book finishes with a parable of an operating system that would allow us to create a universe and thus make all the choices in our lives. What if the interface were developed so that all our choices were represented by radio buttons or check boxes? Suppose a problem develops and you call customer support?

“If you get a flack on the line, he or she would tell you that your life was actually fine, that there was not a thing wrong with it, and in any event it would be a lot better after the next upgrade rolled out. But if you persisted, and identified yourself as advanced, you might get through to an actual engineer.”
“What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem and enumerated all the dissatisfactions in your life? He would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don’t like having choices made for you, you should start making your own.”

]]> http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line/feed 0 Reading List http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/1306 http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/1306#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 14:35:52 +0000 ernie http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/?p=1306 Northern Peninsula, NewFoundland, CA hspace=A few books to read that might go on the reading list I use for my classes.

]]> http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/1306/feed 0 Lighthousekeeping – Jeanette Winterson http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/lighthousekeeping-jeanette-winterson http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/lighthousekeeping-jeanette-winterson#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 13:23:26 +0000 ernie http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/?p=1255 Jeanette Winterson again shows her prowess as a writer weaving humor, love, passion, tragedy, and storytelling in Lighthousekeeping. Duality is the prominent theme. The split we have in our personalities, Jekyll and Hyde, romance and science.

Rather than go on explaining the book, here is a quote from about 3/4 way through:
” In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love. You cannot find it held in the earth’s crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts. Their last meal is sometimes preserved in peat or in ice, but their thoughts and feelings are gone.

Darwin overturned a stable-state system of creation and completion. His new world was flux, change, trial and error, maverick shifts, chance, fateful experiments and lottery odds against success. But earth has turned out to be the blue ball with the winning number. Bobbing alone in a sea of space, earth was the lucky number.”

]]> http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/lighthousekeeping-jeanette-winterson/feed 0 Man in the Dark http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/man-in-the-dark http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/man-in-the-dark#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:24:32 +0000 ernie http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/?p=1172 Man in the Dark: A Novel

I love reading Paul Auster, following his stories as they go in and out of fantasy and reality. In “Man in the Dark: A Novel“, the man creates a story in which he is bewildered, loved, and final destroyed as he tries to reconcile two realities, and his own fate. His own life whose events have taken him to a place where he doesn’t quite fit and can’t really help the ones he loves. As usual, Auster provides excellent work for us to experience and enjoy.

 

 

 

]]> http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/man-in-the-dark/feed 0 Stalking Death http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/stalking-death http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/books/stalking-death#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:01:55 +0000 ernie http://www.webliminal.com/webliminalblog/?p=1114 Stalking Death was the first of Kate Flora’s books that I read.

This is a “Thea Kozak Mystery”, and like her other works like the others traces the thoughts and actions of a protagonist who appears in several of Flora’s novels in a series. Thea Kozak isn’t a private detective or police officer, but is a member of a consulting firm that works with private schools in New England that are facing a crisis. In this case the school’s headmaster wants to expel a student who he claims has been a problem. The student claims she is being stalked. A murder is committed along the way, Thea is physically threatened and attacked, and the plot twists through a backdrop of deception, hatred, and violence. Still, it is written in a way that keeps you involved wanting  to know  how the story is revealed.

I’ve read several of her books since this one, and have others on my dresser to get to next. I am glad to have found her stories. Building them in a series based on a main character, such as Thea Kozak, allows Kate Flora to keep the reader involved in a story that spans several works, and the experience is enhanced if you’ve read several of the books in a series.

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