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QOTD: What books to read
[W]e ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? … A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
– Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar [...]
Link dump: Shuttles, monsters and Apple(s)
(This blog has largely been content-free for a while now. Heh, sorry. To remedy the rut, I’m opting for a tried-and-tested strategy: posting random, unrelated links. Enjoy.)
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Everything must go! NASA puts out a garage sale that includes space suits, engines and — get this — space shuttles. Discounts are available (about 30%, according to a [...]
Robot Sunday
Schneier has “Friday Squid Blogging“, so being original and imaginative, I’ll take on Robot Sundays. (Besides, plenty other people do regular “niche” posts, and I thought, “Why not?”)
But why robots?
Well, I’ve been fascinated by robots since I was young. (Who isn’t?) My main motivation in becoming a computer engineer was to build robots. That, [...]
Modern treatment of timeless classics
llustration by Helen Oxenbury
Walkers put together some of the greatest children’s literature drawn by the best contemporary illustrators. What results is a beautiful compendium of books, the Walker Illustrated Classics.
(via @guykawasaki)
On PSP video
The Other Boleyn Girl. Two sisters become rivals over a king. Natalie Portman portrays Anne Boleyn, an ambitious, intelligent woman who had set her eyes on the king of England. Scarlett Johannsen is Anne’s sister, Mary, who eventually becomes the king’s mistress, earning Anne’s wrath. Well, we all know what happened to Anne, but the [...]
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