Rob’s favorite books » Share book reviews and ratings with Rob, and even join a book club on Goodreads. One year, twenty-six books, 10,902 pages. Not including however many dozens of articles and short stories read in Wired, The New Yorker, and online…
20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade at io9 (via B²) (tagged: literature scifi todo reading ) 30 Must See Web Generator for Lazy Webmasters Not sure where the "Webmasters" bit comes in but it's still a decent round-up of some useful graphic/widget generators. (tagged: web generator graphics ) Douglas Crockford — The State […]
In many ways, I’ve started to come to believe that you can’t go wrong with a John Joseph Adams’ collection. Wastelands was incredible, The Living Dead was great, and Federations…? Also very very good. The “dust jacket description” of this anthology pretty much sums it up… It collects a few different modern takes on the […]
SCENE: Samuel R. Delany, sitting at his writing desk, surrounded by books (some on shelves, but most piled on the floor), circa 1973; a man walks into the room. – Delany and the man stare at each other. They both stroke their beards. Delany: “Who are you?” The Man: “Don’t you know? They sent me.” […]
Apple document details Target Display mode for 27" iMac at tuaw — makes me think that I shouldn't bother getting an external monitor for "the home office" and just upgrade to this guy next year and use this instead… (tagged: iMac Apple hardware wishlist ) Advanced Plugin Development with Ext JS Great piece on developing […]
A number of reviews that got posted to Goodreads.com earlier this year but never made it to here: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; Ficciones; Stranger in a Strange Land; In Persuasion Nation; Plays Well With Others; An Obedient Father; and Theodore Rex We regret this error.
…or, what really happened in the woods that winter: In a cave in the woods in his deep, dark lair through the long, cold winter sleeps a great brown bear. Cuddled in a heap with his eyes shut tight he sleeps through the day he sleeps through the night. The cold winds howl and the […]
A few thoughts as I step away from Theodore Rex: (1) “Teddy” was a really and truly fascinating character and (like him or not) an important figure in American history. (2) Given when I was reading this (i.e., more/less at the height of the health care reform debates of the Obama administration), it gives me […]
JavaScript Framework Matrix “Overview with functions and examples” (tagged: javascript jQuery Ext framework reference work ) Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets by Shawn Blanc (via DF) — interesting redux of Yojimbo and there are some very compelling arguments in there (perhaps I should give it a shot?) (tagged: yojimbo Mac osx software review […]
The write-up on the back of the edition of An Obedient Father that I read describes Sharma’s protagonist as a bit of a Dostoevskyian anti-hero. This makes sense: Sharma gives us a corrupt, alcoholic, child-molesting bureaucrat as the vehicle through which most of the story is told. And–call me old fashioned–this makes the story just […]