Tag: books
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EEBO-TCP Hackathon
Last month, Dan attended the EEBO-TCP hackathon, and worked alongside humanities researchers to collaborate on software that extracted previously unexplored data out of 25,000 recently-digitised 15th-17th century texts.
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What is Art? | I don't know, but this book cover definitely isn't it.
AltTerrible book cover for "What is Art?"
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I think I just discovered what a migraine feels like.
AltTerrible book cover
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Ice and Lemon
Recently, Dan read a book about an alternate-universe version of himself, authored by somebody who very-nearly shares his father's name. Once he's done being creeped out by the coincidences in it, he recommends it to you, too.
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Children's book about a kid and an alien represented by an asterisk (*)
I read a book as a child, probably in the early 1990s, whose story sick with me but which I haven't been able to find since. The plot goes thusly: a child plays a semi text-based video game in which he controls a character (represented by an asterisk), but it later becomes apparent that … -
TIL that in 2004, a book was published that suggested that TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer was valuable as a guide to spirituality
What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide is a book relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.
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Bee
Dan finally finds time to play Emily Short's new Varytale work, "Bee", and has some heartwarming things to say about this most-unusual game.
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The Course, Of Course
Dan talks a little about his counselling course, about one of the exercises he's enjoyed taking part in, and tells a joke about three psychotherapists that walk into a bar. But that's not the joke.
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Quickly, Before They Turn The Glass Into Lesbians!
So, what have I been up to this weekend, you ask. Well...
"Cover The Mirrors" Launch Party
On Friday I took the train up to Preston. The train I was on broke down at Machynlleth when they linked it up to the carriages that had come down the Pwllheli line, and the repairs set me … -
Am I Potter Or Not?
Looking forward to the new Harry Potter book? Me neither. But if you are, here's a quick distraction for you: Potter Or Not!
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Open Fidelity
The other book I got in my recent order from Amazon was Open Fidelity: An A-Z Guide, by Anna Sharman. I bought the book after being made aware of it's existence by the author on a discussion list on which we're both members. It's cheaper to buy direct from her website, and an e-book version … -
Influence: Science and Practice
I recently received an Amazon order I'd been looking forward to for some time, and thought I'd share with you my thoughts on one of the two books I'd ordered (and which I've just finished reading): Influence: Science and Practice (International Edition) by Robert B. Cialdini, which I'd first heard of when Scott Adams mentioned … -
The Ethical Slut
I've just been reading The Ethical Slut, by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt. Well, I say "just been reading" - I actually read it over two days last week (couldn't put it down) - I'm actually just slow to post anything of interest to my blog, these days.
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God’s Debris
Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) has released as a free e-book God's Debris, a short fray into religion and philosophy. I've read several of Scott Adam's books before. Most of these have been comic books - compilations of Dilbert strips. Others have been his interesting, satirical books on office life and tongue-in-cheek guides to survival …