Tag Archives: creativecommons
My Best Books of 2009
I like to read. Here are the best books I read this year. Nonfiction Born On A Blue Day & Embracing the Wide Sky by Daniel Tammet Yes, it’s two books, but it’s really about the same subject. Daniel Tammet is an autistic gay savant synesthete. He won the unusualness lottery. The first book is [...]
Bringing Something to the Party
I just noticed that Paul Carr has released his new book, “Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore” as a Creative Commons BY-NC licensed download for the US. And the, um, rest of the internet. I’m going to read it on my hot new Droid phone, but there’s only a [...]
Better Berkeley Webcasts even better
Nate Whitten wrote in with a suggestion for Better Berkeley Webcasts. He wants to save all of the files to check them out later. He’s using a download manager like Down Them All1, but Berkeley’s files are named poorly, so he doesn’t know which one to watch first. Even better, he sent in the fix [...]
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Professor Robb Willer and the Golden Apple
The group of misfits I grew up with has turned out pretty well. One of them, Robb Willer was my debate partner for a while. He’s gone on to be a professor at Berkeley. Robb won the Golden Apple award for being an awesome teacher. How awesome? Robb’s got intellectual groupies! Berkeley put up Robb’s [...]
Review: Makers by Cory Doctorow