Pinboard: bookmarks for banjaloupe tagged 'book'

Drawing Words Writing Pictures

good resources for learning comics, esp two textbooks on the subjects (HT fleen)

drawing art tutorial online !get reference useful book comics from delicious
3 days ago by banjaloupe

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Printed books existed nearly 600 years before Gutenberg's Bible

im absolutely ashamed i didnt know this earlier

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9 days ago by banjaloupe

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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

on the topic of narratives & psychology

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10 days ago by banjaloupe

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A failing grade for Steven Brill

on the charter reform movement and how it's being presented to the public

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24 days ago by banjaloupe

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What Happened to Gallant Captain Faramir?

just learned that faramir was tolkien's favorite/"self insert" (not really but if he had to pick). and then i read this and its just like, lets spend the afternoon thinking about how great faramir is again

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9 weeks ago by banjaloupe

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Religion Explained (Pascal Boyer)

book rec #1 from bakker's blog

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february 2012 by banjaloupe

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In Gods We Trust (Scott Atran)

book rec #2 from bakker's blog

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february 2012 by banjaloupe

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Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil

insane bombadil theories awayyyy

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december 2011 by banjaloupe

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The Dragon's Egg

great article, esp since the two paragraphs starting at "First, kids experience them..." exactly describes what i now realize is my internal book-liking schema o_o

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december 2011 by banjaloupe

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Lev Vygotsky's The Crisis in Psychology

lets read some effing vygotsky

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october 2011 by banjaloupe

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How to Write a Book in Three Days: Lessons from Michael Moorcock

goes well with the lester dent one

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august 2011 by banjaloupe

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Our Story Thus Far…..

read the name of the wind, then read this. WATCH HOW DEDICATED I AM

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july 2011 by banjaloupe

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Harry Potter virgins: Two muggles who have never read a page of J.K. Rowling watch Deathly Hallows: Part 2

the purest experience

funny harrypotter movie book interview from delicious
july 2011 by banjaloupe

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Project : Game of Thrones

lil' westeros

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june 2011 by banjaloupe

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The Science of Right and Wrong

i wanted to read this book but if these are his arguments then i might be right to skip it...its probably a bad sign that i can see holes in his argument, and im no professional ethicist

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april 2011 by banjaloupe

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“When It’s Not Your Turn”: The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s “The Wire”

the added bonus of having watched the wire is reading amazing articles like this one

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march 2011 by banjaloupe

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Mind vs. Machine

great article from a great-sounding book, on the eve of the watson episode

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february 2011 by banjaloupe

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The Last Ring-bearer

history is written by the victors, so what's the mordorian perspective on the end of the third age?

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february 2011 by banjaloupe

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

basically, eliezer yudkowsky wrote a fanfic where harry potter is anasûrimbor kellhus. if you've read harry potter, and recognize the names kahneman and tversky, there is no reason for you not to be already reading this story

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november 2010 by banjaloupe

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Atlas Shrugged 2: Shrug Harder

the missing link of objectivism

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october 2010 by banjaloupe

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Exhalation - Ted Chiang

this is just the most beautiful scifi story ive read in a while

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august 2010 by banjaloupe

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Processing.org

i should learn this!

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august 2010 by banjaloupe

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Street-Fighting Mathematics

book about everyday mathing, without all that pesky exactitude business (check the left bar for the free dl link)

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july 2010 by banjaloupe

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Excerpt - Being Wrong - By Kathryn Schulz

looks like a great book! its on the psychology of error and why being wrong is great

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july 2010 by banjaloupe

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An Introduction to Planetary Defense: A Study of Modern Warfare Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Invasion

oh my gog i cant believe this is a real book

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july 2010 by banjaloupe

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Conlanger's Library Education Page

fantastic fantastic resources including materials to (basically) run a class about conlanging!

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june 2010 by banjaloupe

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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

ariely's new book! i think i will get this :D

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june 2010 by banjaloupe

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OMG STUDIO GHIBLI BORROWERS MOVIE

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june 2010 by banjaloupe

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Beck: No apologies for promoting an anti-Semite Nazi sympathizer

quick, did you think glenn beck could get any more repulsive? answer: glenn beck can always get more repulsive

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june 2010 by banjaloupe

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Arika Okrent's talk at the 2010 Esperanto USA gathering

if you cant be bothered to read her book (you should be so bothered)

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june 2010 by banjaloupe

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My Father's Dragon

hey look! it is this book! maybe you remember it from the childhood

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june 2010 by banjaloupe

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"Merely a Man of Letters" (Jorge Luis Borges interview)

i have a boner for borges

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april 2010 by banjaloupe

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Heavens (World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings)

also courtesy of the LOC, a series of various astronomical/astrological instruments and texts from around the world

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april 2010 by banjaloupe

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McGuffey's First Reader

"For Use in Building Constructed Languages"

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april 2010 by banjaloupe

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Tove Jansson's »Hobbit« illustrations

tove jansson, winner forever

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march 2010 by banjaloupe

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Why There Is No Jewish Narnia

welp, guess i gotta write a fantasy

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february 2010 by banjaloupe

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Opening Pandora’s Box: The 19 Worst Suggestions For DSM5

specific criticisms of some new/expanded diagnoses in the DSM-V, as well as more general comments at the end about issues with the DSM-drafting process itself

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february 2010 by banjaloupe

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A Few Notes On The Culture

started reading consider phlebas, heres some nonspoilery bg info on the culture

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february 2010 by banjaloupe

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Slaughterhouse 90210

positively fantastic

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february 2010 by banjaloupe

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In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent

here is a book i need to get, if for no other reason than to read about an actual chipmunk language that someone made (kadaka?!)

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december 2009 by banjaloupe

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Edge: 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD — By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

excerpt from a fantastic looking book, including the must-read appendix of major arguments for god (along with answers/comments on those arguments)

amazing religion atheism god rationality philosophy psychology morality book !get
november 2009 by banjaloupe

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Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals” and vegetarianism review

how should we relate to other animals? is eating them an acceptable relation? are humans in any acceptable relations with the world, even?

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november 2009 by banjaloupe

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Love, 1962 American High School Style

brendA + 2wn 4eva

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october 2009 by banjaloupe

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The pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien.

all of them are astounding, but the last images, with the three pages of elvish text (i think in the noldorin style) are positively exquisite and make me want to go back in time and hug ol' jrr

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september 2009 by banjaloupe

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Patry's MORAL PANICS AND THE COPYRIGHT WARS: elegant, calm, reasonable history of the copyfight

it seems that every other article ive come across is a review of a book i must read-- aggravating yet welcome!

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september 2009 by banjaloupe

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Predictably Irrational

an outline of ariely's book, predictably irrational, which i should purchase

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september 2009 by banjaloupe

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HOW WE DECIDE: mind-blowing neuroscience of decision-making

doctorow gives us a great minddump on lehrer's "how we decide" (plus an amazon link)

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september 2009 by banjaloupe

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Le Petit Prince

on l'a bien fait! vraiment c magnifique

via:ouroboros lego petitprince book character modeling amazing
september 2009 by banjaloupe

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A Wizard of Earthsea: A Vis Dev Project

yes yes yes, sooooo yes!

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august 2009 by banjaloupe

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Without Guilt & Justice - Decidophobia

a huge erudite essay on "seven ways of avoiding autonomy", including "religion, drifting, allegiance to a movement, allegiance to a school of thought, exegetical thinking, Manichaeism, moral rationalism", plus extras such as "the faith that one is riding the wave of the future", never standing alone, and marriage (it also appears to be the first part of an even longer book?)