"There are so many interesting things in there, from tectonic maps of the earth's evolving surface to previously unpublished documentation of a campaign to stabilize geological forms in Utah using spray-on adhesives from the automobile industry, from underground cities accidentally discovered by rural farmers to U.S. military plans for the weaponization of hurricanes, from the flooded London of the 27th century to the deliberate targeting of architecture as an act of war. There are lost film sets, space seeds, Stalinist sleep labs, occupied cities, and flying orchestras; there are fossil rivers, adventure tourism firms, hydrological models, and the groaning sounds of climate-changed glaciers; there are buildings, cities, and landscape futures."

"After greedily yelling for more fish, young Bobby is sent to his bedroom without any supper at all. But Bobby escapes when the Manuxet River runs right through his room, carrying an old boat that takes him to a magical town full of fish and slimier things ... the town of Innsmouth. Will Bobby join the wild rumpus under the sea, and be crowned the most Deep One of all?"

"If it doesn't work, suffer." When literature doesn't work, we all suffer. The 'teachings' from "The Story of B(ullshit)"

Free ebook / pay Lulu paperback: "Part memoir and part ethnography, My Tiny Life is about the social life of the online, text-based virtual world LambdaMOO and my own brief encounter with it in the early '90s."

The old Detroit Public Schools Book Depository: "Pallet after pallet of mid-1980s Houghton-Mifflin textbooks, still unwrapped in their original packaging, seem more telling of our failures than any vacant edifice."

Now let us all -- tidy PDFs pocketed -- remind ourselves just how short-lived the future of this particular expression of these particular ideas turned out to have been.

ebook device requirements: "It will be able to survive coffee and wine spills, days of intense sunlight, dropping in the ocean, light charring, and falling completely into two or more pieces, while still remaining perfectly readable afterwards."

vaguery sez: "The one book from 1906 you should read today."

Screen shots + description of the rough corners I found given about 10 minutes of Revish. Looks like a site to check back on in six months (in the off-chance it's still around).

Strong integration with other services. But the service itself doesn't seem to work right -- at all. (Will prep bug reports in the indeterminate future.)

"About David Weinberger’s book (May, 2007) and how we’re pulling ourselves together now that we’ve blown ourselves to bits." Totally ridiculous "Join the conversation" NASCAR thing, must be seen to be believed

This is a pretty awesome book (I flipped through John Abbe's copy)

Short answer: no. Long answer: no!!

Thanks, Ted

"What do the public really think of literature? Here are some examples, in the form of reviews culled from the reader comments on Amazon.com."

"It always aggravates me when libraries and bookstores put price tags or barcodes on the covers of books, often obscuring the title, author, or part of the synopsis on the back." The photo is worth a look.

Book by author of the excellent kernelthread.com.

This is one of those dated-yet-timeless SF covers. At least you can infer that the artist had appreciated the book.

"The book is an edited collection of social and cultural studies of keitai (mobile phone) and pager use over the past decade or so in Japan. We included our own research as well as research by a variety of mostly Japanese scholars whose work we translated