Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

Links 18-Jul-08

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Even a tech writer learns to use dashed lines for impromptu diagrams, but it takes a designer to delineate more of its uses. (I probably got this link from the essential xblog, which is a must-read in my RSS library.) Convenience and impermanence. But look at the size of that keyboard! ...

“Why you should throw books out”

Friday, June 27th, 2008

That's the title of today's post from Tyler Cowen both at his blog and as a guest blogger at Penguin. His point seems to be that the book you've read is likely not the best book you could be reading, and by passing it down the line (via donation or ...

Links 25-May-2008

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Penelope Trunk has an excellent post on how she got her current favorite mentor, to complement her other posts on the topic. As a forty-odder among twenty-somethings, I find that my mentors are not just the professors, but my peers who have longer experience of being a student, being at SILS, being ...

“Library Lullaby”

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

An iSerenity soundscape for when you want to hear the quiet. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

An absolutely gorgeous photo album of a blog post showing frame after frame of stately, beautiful libraries. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.