This is actually from last Christmas but I thought it was appropriate to put up this year, especially since my “Saturday Snap” falls on Christmas Eve. (If Pace’s variations on the original aren’t drastic enough for you, there’s also this.)
Some pretty cool photos give you a glimpse inside an Amazon warehouse (while looking at these, it’s also worth keeping in mind that there have been complaints about the working conditions in these mega-warehouses – both in terms of temperature and productivity expectations.)
Okay, I know climate change and global warming are evil and wrong and terrible. In fact, I’ve just started reading Chris Turner’s “The Leap” and it might be another strong contender for the best book I’ve read this year based on the first few chapters. (translation: “go read this book now!”) But when you live […]
Yet another patented Reddit book recommendation thread.
There are a lot of recommendation engines out there – Amazon, GoodReads, LibraryThing, Novelist, etc. etc. etc. – but BookLamp is one of the most unique I’ve found in that it tries to use pure mathematical algorithms to choose the books it recommends for users, similar to what Pandora does for music. Their biggest fault […]
…was quite possibly a fiction book! I think I’ve mentioned before that I read mostly non-fiction – probably 80-90% NF to 10-20% Fiction. But a recent Reddit thread on “eye-opening books that have improved the quality of your life” led me to a great fiction find. In the thread, somebody recommended Bill Bryson’s “A Short […]
An article on how Amazon’s use of their Kindles as loss-leaders for the digital content within their own “walled garden” ecosphere is a winning strategy that makes them a strong contender against Apple.
There are many variations of the “What’s Your Favourite Book?” question online (many of which I’ve posted in the past.) Reddit recently provided another good one.
A Redditor asks if a modern battalion of a couple thousand Marines could beat the hundreds of thousands of men in the Roman Legion to take over the entire Roman Empire? That leads to one Redditor writing it up the idea as a very engaging novella, a dedicated sub-Reddit for further discussion of the idea and even […]
I’m currently reading a book called “Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite” by Gordon Pitts of the Globe & Mail. This book came to my attention after winning a 2009 National Business Book Prize and, as you might expect given its title and author, it’s a fairly pro-business look at […]
