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When people extrapolate business models too far.

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It’s 2:30 a.m. and it took me about 12 hours but I just finished reading it. Super, super, super, super awesomely awesome. I don’t think I will be able to watch the movie when it comes out. The book was just too good.

I’m going to see if I can sleep now although it’s probably going to take a while.

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Not exactly spoilers inside, but impressions that you might not want to read if you intend to see the movie and haven’t already.

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Plug in a book you don’t like and it spits out books you will.

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A book I found on Amazon

This full-color illustrated book is a fun way for parents to teach young children the valuable lessons of conservatism. Written in simple text, readers can follow along with Tommy and Lou as they open a lemonade stand to earn money for a swing set. But when liberals start demanding that Tommy and Lou pay half their money in taxes, take down their picture of Jesus, and serve broccoli with every glass of lemonade, the young brothers experience the downside to living in Liberaland.

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It’s that time of year again! Go read!

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I’m not sure why amazon.com is bothering to offer the complete Penguin Books collection. It kind of seems like a niche market. Who would want all those books, and if they did, who could pay $7k and have all the bookshelf space? Wacky.

At least they are offering free shipping for the 1000+ books weighing in at 700 lbs.

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My pre-quarter rush to begin reading the (12!) books for next quarter has begun.

Right now I’m reading:

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson which was difficult at first and utterly fascinating;

How We Become Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles which has immediately brought up the question: Are we the sum of our parts and if not, where would your soul go if Star Trekian transporters existed?

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Great site featuring thousands of free e-books

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Google to scan famous libraries.

I think this is cool, but I can’t help but get the whole “Skynet” feeling with google now. Especially after the desktop searcher.

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A new O’Reilly book

And so you can learn how your brain works. I’m not talking about a map or general mechanisms (”there are neurons which are connected blah”) and I’m not talking about really high-level stuff (”this bit is active when you’re motivated blah”). I’m talking about minute-by-minute stuff: This is why you scratch your face when somebody else does. This is what will grab your attention in the corner of your eye, and this is what won’t. Why the status icons in the corner of your desktop should be black and white and not in colour. That’s what Brain Hacks is about, letting you see how all that works, from a standing start.

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This looks like a fabulous book.

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I had never heard of audible.com, but now that I have, LOOK OUT!!

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A link for myself - A book I’d like to read.

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This is a wonderful site that allows you to read (copyright expired I’m guessing) books online. Authors include, George Orwell, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, and many many more. Woohoo!

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