Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: books

  • links for 2007-09-19

    wotmania: feed your wheel of time addiction (tags: books)

  • links for 2007-09-11

    Running SQLPlus and PL/SQL Commands From A Shell Script | TimArcher.com (tags: oracle sqlplus shell scripting) Babel’s Dawn: Pinker’s Anti-Whorfian Hypothesis (tags: science.psychology books linguistics evolution)

  • links for 2007-08-14

    Bourne Shell Scripting – Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks (tags: programming scripting shell reference)

  • Co-Authoring

    Anyone interesting in co-authoring a book? Freakonomics Blog » The Man Behind Tyler Cowen, and Freakonomics Too: FWIW, I am constantly surprised, and a little bit saddened, that more books aren’t co-authored, especially between academics (who often have great research but subpar writing skills) and writers (who spend their days trying to write well but…

  • links for 2007-07-23

    Stupid Email Disclaimers (tags: netiquette email privacy law) The Open Library (tags: books library copyright literature reference)

  • Disgust

    At lunch, I got to the section about “disgust” and “distaste” in How the Mind Works.

  • links for 2007-07-18

    . Innovation at Risk (tags: books economics copyright patents law intellectualproperty) A Patent Is Worth Having, Right? Well, Maybe Not – New York Times (tags: copyright economics law patents intellectual_property) Contents (tags: oracle oracle.features database) Vista Ate My Homework (tags: blackboard resources webctvista.support webctvista.howto WebCT_Vista Blackboard_Vista) Show and Tell: Tips for a Successful Implementatio n…

  • Obscurity Obsolescence

    Along the same lines as Lacey’s Travel and Usability post, libraries are not really designed to be very usable. Well… unless you think like a librarian. Who gets a MLIS degree in order to use a library. Okay… I would… bad example. The below article’s Digital Natives are kids who have played video games all…

  • Happy Father’s Day

    No matter the amount of contributions of nature or nurture, my father contributed significantly to who I am today. How to think and solve my way through problems was something he was always encouraging (or forcing) me to do. He gave me deep books to read. Hearing him tell me how proud he is of…