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Inspirational Business Books

February 2, 2010

One of favorite benefits of Refresh Austin is the chance to learn from the wide array of members and their experiences. Occasionally someone posts a question or suggestion that pulls together many different experiences and ideas as the thread grows. This post is basically a straight up rip-off of one of those threads, but it’s [...]

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The Value of Free eBooks

January 13, 2010

A year and a half ago, Tor a publisher of Fantasy and Sci-Fi released a selection of their books for free on PDF. Like so many others who love to read, I downloaded a significant number of them (at least 15). And they sat on my hard drive untouched as I didn’t have a great [...]

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Where it Takes You

September 21, 2007

So I want to take this opportunity to offer some liberating words to those of you who claim you don’t have the attention span or the time or the interest to finish a book: Fuck finishing. Start and see where that takes you.
Somewhere between “Once upon…” and “…ever after.” – Present Imperfect
The first two sentences [...]

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A Long Way Gone

July 11, 2007

Growing up in the safe confines of the middle-class womb here in the U.S., it is easy to lose sight of the larger world around me. While I count myself a student of history and a constant consumer of information, I tend to focus on specific periods of the past (World War II, the [...]

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Architecture – Analog and Digital

March 26, 2007

Garrett Dimon’s review of For the People by the People, a book about architecture (buildings not pages) has prompted me to add it to my Amazon Wishlist. Sadly I missed the Campfire chat he had set up to discuss it, leaving me with just a small taste, and ultimately causing me to want to read [...]

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Floating books

May 6, 2006

Adding a small stack of books to the invisible bookshelf hides the hardware, creating the illusion that the books are floating in place. Look ma, no hands!

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Design and Web Books

February 14, 2006

While I don’t have much time to actively participate in the Designers in House List, to which I subscribe, I enjoy reading many of the threads. One recent thread from a while back, titled “Your favourite web design book” served as a reminder that I should update my list of Web and design-related book recommendations. [...]

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The Thermochemical Joy of Cooking

June 1, 2004

Wired is running a great piece about Alton Brown of Good Eats fame, titled The Thermochemical Joy of Cooking. The article is focused on Alton’s science-oriented view of cooking and how it differs from the practices espoused on the majority of cooking shows:
Think of Good Eats as a cross between Julia Child’s Kitchen Wisdom and [...]

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Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days

December 14, 2002

Simon North

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