I finished it some time in July; I’ve decided i should log NG with All Consuming as well. (Probably overload to add magazines, but so it goes.)

I was particularly interested in the coverage of the Utah ranch where ruins of the Fremont people are being recorded.

Hurricanes, Katrina/New Orleans (shot with an interesting depth of field effect from the 1950’s era Speed Graphic camera by David Burnett), Currents in the straits of Vancouver Island)

Another Safari Book through SFPL’s eBook software (and not available through the ACM). Peter Morville: semanticstudios.com and findability.org.

An “all consuming” review asserts that intertwingle is a Morville. It’s not. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson .

Chapter 1: skimmed

Information Processing Chapter:
Hack 13. Catch Your Ideas—the end of this hack warns that one might be overwhelmed by ideas, and i know just how that is true.
Hack 14 (like Hack 09, pdf’d)—involved “speedwords” a sort of shorthand for taking notes. (I suddenly think about the possibility of taking notes on a linux iPod with morse code: these speed words would be an extremely useful addition)
Hack 15: understand your learning style(s). See http://tip.psychology.org/index.htm & http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
Hack 16: mind maps; Hack 17: “exoself” (hipster PDA) Hack 18: pre delete cruft (I get it, but - ah - to do it!)

I stumbled upon the book in the SFPL Safari subscription. Today i read chapter 1 on memory. I think i can kind of come up with a system of images to go to digits that might work for me, inspired by the first few hacks. (I’m thinking of the sun and nine planets.) Some of the other hacks are far beyond what i would ever want to attempt, but the Lewis Carrol technique for number memorization with rhyming couplets might be worth trying.

A lovely treatment of both physics and neurology with nicely nuanced understanding of human behavior. [I am not a neurologist; the physics didn’t go far enough to get into any trouble.]

A very good read.

It’s the first in a trilogy, but is fairly complete on its own.

A treat from Christine, added to our diverse graphic novel/comic collection.

From the “free books” table, read after work.

K-M recommended this after a comment i made about what one might over hear people talking about on Stevens Creek trail. The trail runs past tech companies out in the Shoreline area, Google and Microsoft are among the big names, and plenty of start-ups have offices out that way, too.

The movie isn’t much about corporate espionage, but much more about privacy, information, and morality. It’s still relevant; a remake with current technology could be fascinating or simply ruin how the film is stripped down to raw theme.

With Harrison Ford and Robert Duvall, an IMDB comparison to the cast and crew of Apocalypse Now was entertaining. Christine notes that Harrison Ford’s act of turning on the tape recorder in that film creates and interesting echo of The Conversation.

I’ve actually been reading this for several weeks. Most of the book has been extremely well documented and well written. One chapter, though, is a bit of a muddle, with much handwaving and circumstantial evidence that tea is what created the British Empire. While i don’t doubt it personally, i do think a more critical reader would find a great deal of flaws with the arguments in that chapter.

I’m not sure i’m looking forward to finding out the current status of tea production. I do hope it isn’t as terribly exploitative as the early part of this century.

When i saw the models 16 years ago, I was convinced. This movie, ending with the empowering, “What can you do?” list of very straightforward actions - and the assertion that if all the steps are done, we can drop the CO2 levels down dramatically - that encouraged me greatly.

If we don’t change, and the large land ice masses melt, it won’t be because it was inevitable, it will be because we chose to let it happen.