Just finished reading "Social Space: Canadian Perspectives" edited by D. I. Davies and Kathleen Herman, a collection of "what does it mean to be Canadian"-like stories from the dawn of public consciousness of Canada(early 1970s) as a nation separate from the UK and US ( Read more... )

Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown ( Read more... )

Just finished an ancient tombe : the TRAVELS OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN.

A tale along the lines of Gulliver's Travels circa the late 18th c.

* In general, a romantic view of all parts of the world around that time, including Canada* This is what my life must sound like to the causal onlooker. A few times my mind started to gloss over details ( ( Read more... )

Books Read:

• Ezra Levant - Shakedown.
  
• Stewart Calculus (4th ed. Multivariable) (I got to the end, but my memory about the vectorcalc parts faded back almost immediately, then I read to the end again(from a second bookmark)...and again it faded back, I'm on attempt 3 but I *did* get to the end and I've probably done most of the questions in the ( Read more... )

( Finished Reading: Dying Inside, by Robert Silverberg )

Memery contracted from the [LJ]the_iron_troll

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.
- bold the ones you've read,
- underline the ones you read for classes (at least once),
- italicize the ones you started but didn't finish,
- * if ( Read more... )

I'm pretty much finished Todd Winkler's 'Composing Interactive Music - Techniques and Ideas using Max'. If I still had it, this book would sit next to the IBM/360 Assembly textbook I've read, since it's about as useful. I mean, props to Mr. Winkler, but really; unless this is going to be available in a language that I have access to, why bother ( Read more... )

The question is; how can I distill, honestly review, or create value from the 3,000 pages of swashbuckling international finance that made up Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle?

( spoiler alert )