Tag: books

Kindle Book Lending

a tiny step towards more interesting ebook scenarios.

One could envision centuries old ebooks with talmudic collections of notes–with the price of the book rising with to the quality of previous owners.

Modernist Cuisine

Modernist Cuisine is a 6-volume, 2400-page set that is destined to reinvent cooking. The lavishly illustrated books use 1000s of original images to make the science and technology clear and engaging.

lauded by chang, dufresne, adria.

the mongoliad

stephenson’s new epic shared universe. still pretty bare. will need a lot of work before it reaches the scale of orions arm.

Medieval Multitasking

there were a lot of “distractions” built into a medieval book. Indeed, these were often the main fare for the “reader” of a book.

Dervish House

The Dervish House is set in 2027 Istanbul, in a future in which Turkey and the Queen of Cities have moved into the EU, where “the sick man of Europe” has boomed again, the center of a new practical nanotech revolution that has high-achieving school-kids and high-flying commodities traders snorting vials of tailored nano to help them cope with their days. Meanwhile, snappily dressed power-brokers sport nanofiber suit that shifts and shimmers in a luxuriant display of wealth and might.

istanbul is fun. will read

House of Suns

i enjoyed this very much. some breathtaking ideas, like “they might etch my face across the surface of a planet” to remember the dead.

The Lights In the Tunnel

argues that the masses made redundant by automation will find employment with non-profits and be paid via a consumption tax.

Orange Sunshine

In the 1960s, a group called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love figured it could turn the entire world on to the mystical power of LSD. It seemed like a reasonable idea at the time.

Religion Is False

I have devoted large sections of the book to explaining why every other religion besides yours is false, which presumably is something you fervently believe already and are eager for me to justify.

Eatertainment

Fat, sugar, and salt are the crucial elements for “eatertainment”: Frito-Lay is trying to create “a lot of fun in your mouth”, others to “unlock the code of craveability,” or to “cram as much hedonics as you can in 1 dish.”