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February 21 to 27, 2005
Libraries are now lending iPods with audio
books
on them...
The late Hunter S. Thompson often visited Hawaii and wrote many infamous things there. Here's the best take on him, by Honolulu-based writer William Moake: http://starr
books
.netfirms.com/thompson.ht...
January 24 to 30, 2005
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand
books
tore? Now that so many book sales are online, how about putting the
books
tore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the
books
tore? A suitabl...
January 17 to 23, 2005
The digested read - popular novels condensed to 100 words. It sure has saved me some time! http://
books
.guardian.co.uk/digestedread...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Punk rock flyers from 1982 to 1984: http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/czech
books
/explore.ht...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Amazon.com is selling more electronics than
books
...
November 15 to 21, 2004
A
books
tore arranged by book color...
November 8 to 14, 2004
A good counterproposal to Creationists that want warning stickers on biology text
books
: put warning stickers on the Bible...
September 13 to 19, 2004
"While a student at Southern Methodist University in the 1960s, first lady Laura Bush was known 'as a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana.'" http://www.salon.com/
books
/int/2004/09/14/kelley...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Cell phone users are using their cameras in store to copy text
books
...
Art from 1920's Japanese children's
books
. Nice Web design here, too, despite tiny text...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A great business model for online publishing - "fast turnaround e-
books
"...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Will libraries be illegal? Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive aims to be the modern Library of Alexandria - here's a fascinating recent talk on his fight to archive digital media and create a fre...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Apple's preview of Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4. Now with high-quality four-way videoconferencing. I and my friends have videoconferenced with Power
books
from Honolulu to California, Boston, and Israel, an...
A teacher fed up with the high cost of (Cisco Academy's computer training) text
books
makes his own equivalent text
books
and puts them online for free...
June 14 to 20, 2004
A review of the coolest palmtop computer. Sorry, available in Japan only: http://www.pdabuyersguide.com/note
books
/sony_vaio_U50.ht...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A how-to booklet from the 1940's. Remember, "how-to"
books
on today's technology will seem just as quaint in 2070...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
As an experiment, every 5th- and 6th-grader at this Texas elementary school is getting a laptop with digital versions of text
books
and 2,000 works of literature...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A review of the first electronic paper- based reading device and its implications for libraries,
books
, and traditional reading habits...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A9, Amazon's search service, launched. Search Google and
books
at the same time...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Ever wonder why so many business majors think Microsoft invented computing? A study of eight text
books
reveals total ignorance of the role of Unix in business...
March 15 to 21, 2004
books
on how having more choices makes you unhealthy and unhappy...
March 1 to 7, 2004
A network map of political
books
based on purchase patterns from major Web-based book retailers. It shows a great division in thinking... you could use this same sort of analysis to visually stud...
December 1 to 7, 2003
"Public Libraries Use Internet to Sell Old
books
, Help Budgets...
Old "lost" Hawaiian literature is getting resurrected via e-
books
...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Now that people are sharing their iTunes playlists, a new form of bigotry is emerging: discrimination based on a person's terrible taste in music (at least among networked college students). It "tell...
November 3 to 9, 2003
The home of New Society publishers, a great publisher of
books
on sustainable living...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
Quote of the week: "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal." -- Revolution
books
, New York, NY Feel safe? Last week was "Protection From Pornography Week"...