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The Infinite Book: The Plastic Logic Reader (and the Real Nature of Books)

December 28, 2008

A book is essentially whole, unitary — a little world of human thought, word, & spirit, chosen, shaped, and bound within its covers. Books are bundles; a book is what is bound together. For what makes a book more than it’s binding?

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Shelved with: Visual Arts|| The Reading Life|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: Andrew Golis, Andy McCourt, Book Arts, Book Publishing, Books, Digital Literacy, e-readers, Espresso Book Machine, Jorge Luis Borges, Library of Babel, Plastic Logic Reader, POD, Print Culture, Richard Archuleta
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Joy to the World (Bruce Cockburn)

December 22, 2008

Bruce Cockburn’s Christmas is a tradition around here. Thanks to Quercus126 for providing this rendition. If you want to hear it played by the man himself, it’s here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YF8nH7J0o

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Shelved with: Visual Arts|| Local Life
Tagged With: Bruce Cockburn, Christmas, Guitar, Holidays, Music, Video
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Gutenberg’s PC: The Espresso Book Machine

December 17, 2008

The Espresso Book Machine brings the flexibility and ubiquity of digital media to the old medium of printed paper books, extending the transformation that Gutenberg’s press began, and putting the final say on publishing a book firmly in the hands of the authors and readers. So what will happen when everybody has one of these?

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Shelved with: The Reading Life|| Science & Technology|| The History & Future of Books
Tagged With: Clay Shirky, e-ink, e-reader, Espresso Book Machine, Gutenberg, iLiad, Jason Epstein, Kindle, POD, Readius
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Shiny new software…

December 11, 2008

Snow outside, snow on Matt’s blog, WordPress 2.7 (with a snazzy redesign and full support for child themes!), and Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

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Shelved with: Science & Technology|| The Book of Nature
Tagged With: Blogging, Christmas, Coltrane, Digital Literacy, FF3.1, Firefox, Snow, WordPress, WP2.7
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When Jesus Christ Was Born (Michelle Shocked)

November 28, 2008

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwjeEZvdhO0 It’s time for Christmas music, right? Michelle Shocked sings with her whole soul, ’cause she knows what its all about. Visit her on the web at MichelleShocked.com.

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Shelved with: Visual Arts|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Christmas, Holidays, Michelle Shocked, Music, Video, Worship
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A National Day of Listening

November 27, 2008

Only connect. Don’t let the mundane stand in the way. Make the time. Be curious and honest, and keep an open heart. Find others to encourage and support you in this practice. It’s simple, but it can mean the world.

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Dialog, History, Holidays, Marriage, Marriage Encounter, National Day of Listening, NPR, Questions, Radio, Stories, Thanksgiving, Traditions
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The Science of Giving Thanks

November 27, 2008

In short, acts of gratitude improve your overall well-being. That?s reason enough for me to start being more thankful for what I have.

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Shelved with: Margin Notes|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Holidays, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychology, Thanksgiving, Traditions
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Exhilaration, Exhaustion, Tennyson

November 21, 2008

“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| Mind & Society|| Civic Life
Tagged With: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Barack Obama, Camelot, Change, Democracy, John McCain, King Arthur, Politics, Sacrifice
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Intermission Music

November 4, 2008

“I have to admit, it’s getting better…”

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Tagged With: Beatles, Change, Music, Politics
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Wisdom versus Winning

November 3, 2008

After all this, is your world not larger than it was before? Show me you both are looking for wisdom and understanding, rather than victory.

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Shelved with: Mind & Society
Tagged With: Barack Obama, Community, Debate, John McCain, Political Friendship, Politics, Wisdom
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Letter to a Young Voter

November 2, 2008

It’s late in the election cycle, and I do not know if you have yet registered to vote, but I exhort you as my fellow citizen, my political friend, to go and vote. And after that, to participate in other ways, by reading, commenting, contributing, serving, listening, speaking, advocating. Politics grows from the practice of everyday life in the presence of strangers and friends. It doesn’t matter whether you have everything figured out yet — just participate. Be devoted — make a sacrifice of devotion — to the city and nation in which you have found yourself. They are your family, and they need you.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| Hearts & Minds|| Mind & Society|| Parenting|| Civic Life
Tagged With: Aristotle, Cities, Citizenship, Community of Practice, Danielle S. Allen, Devotion, Political Friendship, Politics, Richard C. Harwood, Vote
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Another Halloween

October 31, 2008

It’s that time of year again, when our culture takes a holiday originating in fall harvest and the passing of generations, and turns it into a celebration of imagination, childhood, community, misrule, aggression, terror, & trauma (as well as another opportunity for a capitalist binge).

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: Barack Obama, David Bordwell, Fear, Halloween, Holidays, John McCain, Politics, Stories, Zombies
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