MASSIVELY PARALLEL

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080229 Clay Shirky Book Release for Here Comes Everybody @ ITP

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I read Cory’s post about the Google laptop theft on boingboing and I saw red. So I started an internet petition to scare the treeware vendors.

The petition is for anyone who’s boycotting MacMillan until the company, and Charkin, offer an official apology for equating a legitimate act of copying with the theft of physical [...]

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There’s a meme going around the internets in which intrepid nerds (and ordinary civilians) post photos of their “to-read” stack of books.  I just checked in with a contribution to Flickr.  Viewing the “readingstack” tag across the whole site is interesting too, although it makes me feel a little queasy; like I’ve got a whole [...]

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just finished Julie and Julia; great for a quick mindless read. in jamaica (call it around chrismas 2006) i finished Rip It Up and Start Again (Simon Reynolds) and Ubik (Philip K Dick). There’s a ton of other stuff and i thought i’d be able to think of books off the top of [...]

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off the top of my head, bc i’m blogging a fair bit tonight:
- The Complete Bone (in a single volume) (Jeff Smith)
A lot of fun and a gargantuan effort on Smith’s part, but not quite deserving of the Best! Comic! Evar! lauds and laurels its been getting
- Gary Benchley, Rock Star (Paul Ford)
I read Ford [...]

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Yikes. Been a while. Try to get back in the swing of blogging.
Books finished recently:
Dennet, Dan Breaking the Spell
crap, there was something else. Forgot. More soon.

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- Comics as Philosophy - didn’t read every article, but the Crisis on Infinite Earths / Liebniz, the Watchmen article and the Black captain america essays were all excellent.
- I’ve got some “Introducing Barthes” book (Jonathan Cutler) that fits in my jacket pocket so i’ve been reading that on the subway. The aforementioned Black [...]

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There’s nothing odd about watching several TV shows or playing several video games simultaneously, but books tend to be idealized as serial pursuits: don’t start a new one until you’ve finished whatever yr reading. I have NADD and a bad habit of beelining straight for the remainders table in St. Marks Books; consequently, there’re [...]

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