Really good recap of the Columbine tragedy – does a great job of wading through the myths and digging into the reasons why this happened. The biggest revelation in this book is the failure of the local police departments. It’s a shame that the local authority dropped the ball years earlier – they very possibly could have prevented this from happening by following up & finishing an investigation on Eric Harris – but they didn’t. They could have prevented Columbine and many other copycat and other influenced crimes.

Bookwise – the organization is a bit strange. The book alternates each chapter with the story of Eric & Dylan from the beginning – in tandem with the investigation, character stories and other information. The author does a great job covering all aspects of “Columbine” – not just the perpetrators but also everyone else who was effected by this. Some readers may be put off by the additional information – but in the end it provides for a very well-rounded study of these events.

Ok, I understand now. I love this band. haha.

Very quick read that serves as a basic primer to CSS3, and particularly CSS Tables and how they can help with layout. I would suggest picking this up at a library though. This is a short one that comes in around 111 pages – $30 is pretty hefty for it. I think most of this book could have been published as a series of posts on the Sitepoint site – but I digress.

Title is a bit misleading – but I think it is done to get you to purchase the book. it may be better titled “Everything you know about CSS will be improved with CSS3” or something like that.

Storm of the reeeeeaperrrrrr!!!!!!!

I gave this 2 stars, but wish I could give it 2 1/2 stars instead.

I enjoyed this book simply for the content. I’ve had a renewed interest in the history of my hometown and the region since moving back here. It was interested to hear more about people who I only knew by last names and whom places and streets were named after.

Unfortunately, the writing is not really that great. It reads more like a college thesis instead of a book. Names are dropped before it is explained who they are.

I’ll still read part II though.

This is a decent read, but a lot of the examples are out of date. The important thing is that the concepts are still quite applicable to today’s web.

If you plan to read this one, you’ll get some use out of it. But I would suggest getting it from a library instead of buying it.

see title of this review.

Didn’t like this one too much. The short stories were cool, and I think I would have enjoyed them more as a stand-alone collection. I didn’t really get much of the back story of all the characters, and the main story itself really didn’t do much for me. I kept reading and reading hoping for the usual “Chuck Palahniuk Mindfuck” at the end (you know, the usual ended that turns out that the story you were reading the whole time really wasn’t the main story at all thing.)

Anyway, this book seemed more like a “shock value” type thing. Or one of those “final books of a contract i wanna get out of” type thing.

ok. this record reminds me of what it would sound like if you took early mastodon recordings and make them USBM instead of what they do. in other words, this is a GREAT record. Thus band flew under my radar for way too long. highly recommended.

This is not the strongest release from Xasthur, and I believe it’s not nearly as strong as his last release, “Subliminal Genocide”.

It’s recorded differently, so the barrage of sound I am used to in other Xasthur releases isn’t here. One of the things I really enjoy about Xasthur is the feeling of being totally surrounded by the sound in his releases, it’s missing from this one.

In his defense, Xasthur doesn’t make music thinking about the fans though. He just makes music and releases it not caring of the outcome (of course this is up for argument).