Banned Book Week which is held during the last week of September is the US equivalent of Canada's Freedom to Read Week which is held during the last week of February.Here's a post on MetaFilter about Banned Book Week including a really cool Google maps mash-up of book challenges across the US since 2007.
iNudge is a pretty fun web-based music making program. Or to put it another way, WELCOME TO MY RAVE!!!
Here's a couple very quantitative way to determine which Beatle added more to the group…– assign point values in descending order based on who wrote each of the Top 50 Most Played Beatles Songs on last.fm (Paul has a slight edge over John)– using the Beatles #1 album, count who wrote more of their #1 […]
*I'm backdating a few posts to this past weekend to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping and otherwise spending quality time with my family.*CustomizedCoupland is an opportunity for you to design your own cover for his new book – for a price of […]
Sorta interesting but not as cool as hearing what's on his iPod.
Radiohead is no stranger to innovative music practices. Recently, they've done a couple more…– a one-off charity single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of), to support the British Legion, an anti-war song written using the words of the UK's last surviving WWI soldier, Harry Patch who died earlier this summer.– and a brand new song, “These […]
I got 12/16 and once I saw the four I missed, realised I probably should've got 16/16. If you want a hint, mouseover the following text…the site fills in the titles automatically as you guess correctly so picking names of classic novels at random is a good way to cheat…and for the record, I didn't […]
Some of the folks on MetaFilter are reporting bugs but after a few trials (admittedly with fairly well-known and recent books), I had no problems with BookSeer. It's nothing ground-breaking – simply a pretty cool interface to present the book recommendations provided by Amazon and LibraryThing in a unique, streamlined fashion.
As I mentioned before, the first book I downloaded to read on my new iPhone is “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow. I'm quite enjoying it – both the story and the convenience of always having a book with me in a very compact form. I also just finished “Free: The Future of A Radical Price” […]
[Edit: A wonderful story I came across detailing the relationship between John Hughes and a teenaged pen pal.] When I'm forced to choose, “Ferris Bueller's Day Off” is one of the movies I often pick as my favourite movie of all-time. “Breakfast Club” pretty much defined my high school days with its perfect delineation of […]
