Tag: books
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Incredible Doom
I just read a comic book full of early-Internet nostalgia that delighted me, and wanted to share it with you.
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Batman's World
I do not claim to have a good explanation nor excuse.
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How cool are Silo's credits?
New TV series Silo's pretty good, but its credits sequence is just... excellent. Let me take it apart bit-by-bit for you.
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I bought Zach Weinersmith‘s Bea Wolf for my kids (9 and 6, the elder of them already a fan of Beowulf). It arrived today, but neither of them have had a chance to because I wouldn’t put it down.
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Spy's Guidebook Reborn
When his 7-year-old asks Dan to print some crib from Usborne's Spy's Guidebook, he goes one step further and reimplements the cipher in Javascript.
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Twinebook - Printable Interactive Fiction
Twinebook lets you use Twine to make printable adventure gamebooks. Is there mileage in expanding on the prototype, Dan wonders?
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Fox In Sox
Here's a new trick, Mr. Knox: Wes Tank raps Dr. Seuss's Fox In Sox to Dr. Dre beats.
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Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In
In an interview with Halimah Marcus of Electric Literature, Ted Chiang shares his thoughts on how the coronavirus crisis is, and is not, like a science fiction story.
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#FindTheBeeGent
LRB Bookshop
Come for the bizarre tweet. Stay for the thread full of bee puns and poetry. -
Why do book spines have the titles printed the way they do?
The orientation of the title printed on the spine of anglophone books is dictated by ISO 6357. Wrongly.
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How Do You Move A Bookstore? With A Human Chain, Book By Book
When October Books, a small radical bookshop in Southampton, England, was moving to a new location down the street, it faced a problem. How could it move its entire stock to the new spot, without spending a lot of money or closing down for long?
The shop came up with a clever solution: They put out … -
Today, @bodleianlibs releases Shadows Out of Time, a Choose-Your-Own-Destiny story. It's amazing - go read it: https://s.danq.me/Np #halloween #InteractiveFiction
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Oat the Goat
Oat the Goat (oatthegoat.co.nz) Oh my Goat! We just finished reading this awesome pick-a-path story that helps children learn the power of kindness. Have a go… #OatTheGoat
Oat the Goat
Discovered this fun interactive storybook; it tells the tale of a goat called Oat who endeavours to climb a mountain (making friends along the … -
The Better Bundo Book
Dan reads A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo to a four year-old as a vehicle to talking about difference, diversity, and discrimination.
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21 Books You Don't Have to Read (and 21 you should read instead)
The 21 Most Overrated Books Ever (and 21 Books to Read Instead) (GQ) GQ asked its favorite new authors to dunk on the classics. We've been told all our lives that we can only call ourselves well-read once we've read the Great Books. We tried. We got halfway through Infinite Jest and halfway through the …