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April 25, 2013

Incidentally, no new books have been posted to the sidebar as I am re-reading William Gibson’s Neuromancer after almost two decades. The first time around, I was fresh out of high school and well-traveled for my age, so the book spoke to the cosmopolitan idealist in me but was pretty opaque in terms of references [...]

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Revisiting Rand A Year After Michael Hart’s Passing

September 6, 2012
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One year ago today, Michael Hart died. This weekend, at his home in Urbana, Benjamin Stone and Nadja Robot will sell all of his books. A beautiful personal library of thousands upon thousands of books, that were once pieces of others’ collections and those before them, comes apart but will be absorbed by so many. [...]

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Ent

August 18, 2012
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Going through old travel pictures. Walking in rural Ireland, it’s not hard to see where British fantasy authors get their inspiration. I touched this tree and expected it to start talking to me, beginning with “Ba ra room!” Tweet

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101 Geo-Sites Geo-Meme

June 21, 2012
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Get in on Callan Bentley’s new geo-meme! It involves highlighting the places that Albert Dickas visited and listed in his book 101 American Geo-Sites You’ve Gotta See. It appears Dickas needs to see more of Wisconsin. And I need to see more of the country. Truth be told, I’ve been on so many road and [...]

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52 Things You Should Know About Geophysics

June 1, 2012
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Geophysicist / science-web savant Matt Hall and I were backchanneling a year ago when he asked if I would like to be a part of “an informal, practical, useful book for geophysicists and seismic interpreters in the worldwide oil and gas industry, full of down-to-earth, common sense advice.” To which I replied, “Yeah!” Today, 52 [...]

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Acadian 1

May 30, 2012

“A mountain-building event that affected an area from present-day New York to Newfoundland during the Devonian Period (416 to 359.2 million years ago).” – Encyclopedia Britannica *** “The son of Hermes and a nymph, Pan was half goat, half man who lived in the forests of Arcadia [in Peloponnese) surrounded by satyrs and maenads." - [...]

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Sharing eBooks

September 26, 2011

Today’s xkcd: I’ve lost grey matter beating my head on the walls of this blog and elsewhere on the internet that the advent of eBooks does not signal or signify the death of paper books, nor should it. Anyone who wants paper books to go away is in the business of reading for the sake [...]

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Michael Hart Remembered Online – UPDATED

September 8, 2011

This post serves as a roundup of good online articles on and tributes to Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg and close friend, who passed away two days ago. If you come across any that are not here, please link to them in the comments. So much love ad respect out there for Michael; [...]

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