teach yourself to code
26 days ago by fjordaan
The web is a fantastic stockpile of resources for people who want to learn programming but it can be hard to know where to start. Help me share what you've found.
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coding
programming
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26 days ago by fjordaan
5 (More) Children's Books for Grown-Ups | Brain Pickings
september 2011 by fjordaan
Last year, we featured five of our favorite children’s books with philosophy for grown-ups, which became one of our most-shared and -discussed pieces of all time. Today, based on reader suggestions, we’re back with five more.
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september 2011 by fjordaan
Diana Wynne Jones obituary | Books | The Guardian
march 2011 by fjordaan
Like many good writers, Diana Wynne Jones, who has died aged 76 of cancer, worked for long years in relative obscurity, in her case sustained as a children's fantasy author by a modestly sized but devoted young readership. That obscurity provided the freedom to develop her own voice without the distractions of having to build on perceived success. By the time real success found her, in Jones's case almost by chance, she was a mature writer with a solid and varied body of work that was ready to be appreciated by a much bigger new audience.
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dianawynnejones
fantasy
books
march 2011 by fjordaan
IPad Makes Space in Japan's Tiny Homes by Removing Bookshelves - Bloomberg
february 2011 by fjordaan
Ohki and rivals including Denshika.com and Scan Honpo are tapping that demand. Ohki founded Bookscan with childhood friend Shinya Iwamatsu in April, converting books into PDF files that can be read on the iPad, iPhone, Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble Inc.’s Nook. The company charges 100 yen per book for a service called “jisui,” or “cooking for oneself.”
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japan
ipad
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february 2011 by fjordaan
A List Apart: Articles: A Simpler Page
january 2011 by fjordaan
Bibliotype: a template
We need a starting point. We know HTML is the future so why not build a core design template for long form tablet reading? With this in mind, I set out to build just that. The end result is called Bibliotype. It’s a simple set of CSS, HTML, and JS files that provide a base for anyone looking to bring long form reading to tablets (be it in a CMS, blog, iOS app—anything using WebKit as a renderer).
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ipad
alistapart
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We need a starting point. We know HTML is the future so why not build a core design template for long form tablet reading? With this in mind, I set out to build just that. The end result is called Bibliotype. It’s a simple set of CSS, HTML, and JS files that provide a base for anyone looking to bring long form reading to tablets (be it in a CMS, blog, iOS app—anything using WebKit as a renderer).
january 2011 by fjordaan
The Suck Fairy / Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts
september 2010 by fjordaan
The Suck Fairy is an artefact of re-reading. If you read a book for the first time and it sucks, it’s nothing to do with her. It just sucks. Some books do. The Suck Fairy comes in when you come back to a book that you liked when you read it before, and on re-reading—well, it sucks.
suck
fairy
books
reread
tor
re-read
blyton
scifi
funny
september 2010 by fjordaan
A syllabus and book list for novice students of science fiction literature
september 2010 by fjordaan
Back in the mists of time, I used to teach literature and American Studies at UC Berkeley, so I have some experience putting together course materials for university classes very much like one. (In fact, there are a few books on here that I used to teach.) What educators aim to do in overview courses is expose students to the broadest possible set of examples of a genre, not just the "canon." It is in this spirit that I chose the books on this list.
books
list
literature
reading
sf
scifi
sciencefiction
september 2010 by fjordaan
Curious Pages
august 2010 by fjordaan
A site for all your reading disorders. Looking for books about teddy bears or rainbows or feelings? You’re at the wrong place. Here we celebrate the offbeat, the abstract, the unusual, the surreal, the macabre, the inappropriate, the subversive and the funky.
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books
children
curious
subversive
funny
august 2010 by fjordaan
cyoa - Choose Your Own Adventure
november 2009 by fjordaan
At its atomic level, a cyoa book is a collection of numbered pages of a few different types. Most pages tell a portion of the story, then finish by telling you to jump to another page. A smaller number of pages tell a conclusion to the story and represent an endpoint with no further jumps. We can subdivide these ‘narrative’ and ‘endings’ groups further based on the number of choices offered or the goodness of the ending. To visualize this, imagine color-coding every page in the book and then laying the pages out next to each other:
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interactive
adventure
cyoa
choose
steve
jackson
november 2009 by fjordaan
A List Apart: Articles: Printing a Book with CSS: Boom!
september 2009 by fjordaan
Can CSS be used for serious print jobs? To find out, we decided to take the ultimate challenge: to produce the next edition of our book directly from HTML and CSS files. In this article we sketch our solution and quote from the style sheet used. Towards the end we describe the book microformat (boom!) we developed in the process.
alistapart
css
print
books
howto
printing
pdf
hakon
lie
bert
bos
boom
microformat
september 2009 by fjordaan
bkkeepr | About
september 2009 by fjordaan
bkkeepr lets you track your reading and bookmark on the go, via the web and SMS. Want to remember what you read? Want to share your dog-eared pages, and see what everyone else dog-eared? Love LibraryThing, but are always forgetting to add your books? bkkeepr helps you do it, wherever you are.
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books
twitter
reading
community
isbn
september 2009 by fjordaan
ABOUT | ...:::kindertrauma:::...
june 2009 by fjordaan
KINDERTRAUMA is about the movies, books, and toys that scared you when you were a kid. It’s also about kids in scary movies, both as heroes and villains. And everything else that’s traumatic to a tyke!
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childhood
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horror
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kindertrauma
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scary
traumatic
june 2009 by fjordaan
Book corner - A book lover's guide to building a brilliant children's library
june 2009 by fjordaan
Lucy Mangan / Books | guardian.co.uk
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guardian
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recommendations
june 2009 by fjordaan
Whither Eucalyptus? - Jamie’s Web Log
may 2009 by fjordaan
If you’re wondering why Eucalyptus is not yet available, it’s currently in the state of being ‘rejected’ for distribution on the iPhone App Store. This is due to the fact that it’s possible, after explicitly searching for them, to find, download from the Internet, and then read texts that Apple deems ‘objectionable’. The example they have given me is a Victorian text-only translation of the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. For the full background, a log of my communications with Apple is below.
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censorship
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gutenberg
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reader
stupid
may 2009 by fjordaan
Books and Music That Make You Dumb - Digits - WSJ.com
march 2009 by fjordaan
With his two Web sites (which have crashed from too much traffic), Booksthatmakeyoudumb.com and Musicthatmakesyoudumb.com, Griffith used aggregated Facebook data about the favorite bands and books among students of various colleges and plotted them against the average SAT scores at those schools, creating a tongue-in-cheek statistical look at taste and intelligence.
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books
dumb
facebook
music
statistics
taste
march 2009 by fjordaan
Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library
october 2008 by fjordaan
Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker's library. You exit the austere parlor of his New England home and pass through a hallway into the bibliographic equivalent of a Disney ride. Stuffed with landmark tomes and eye-grabbing historical objects
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books
culture
geek
jay
library
walker
wired
october 2008 by fjordaan
Goodreads | get book recommendations from people you know
july 2008 by fjordaan
Have you ever wanted a better way to: * see what your friends are reading? * keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read? * get great book recommendations from people you know?
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librarything
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track
july 2008 by fjordaan
Reading rainbow? | MetaFilter
january 2008 by fjordaan
There is nothing wrong in this whole wide world. Artist Chris Cobb convinced Adobe Bookshop in San Francisco to allow him to reclassify 20,000 books based solely on their color. The result is like something out of a dream. Here are some pictures, and here's an interview with him.
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colour
metafilter
january 2008 by fjordaan
reCAPTCHA
november 2007 by fjordaan
Stop Spam, Read Books
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november 2007 by fjordaan
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