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Matt is going all out with live streaming video today promoting his latest book Brave Men Run. He’s posted details about the promotion plan here.
I just bought a copy. Matt, I expect you to autograph it, buddy. ;-)

I received Jim Munroe’s Therefore Repent! in the mail on Thursday. After getting home from work around 7 o’clock, I read half of the book before Kristin, Mags, and I went to see Indiana Jones. I’d read the entire thing before falling asleep Thursday night. I highly recommend it.

Last night, I was on Goodreads obsessively marking up all the books I could think of that I’ve read. I really am loving this website and I had no idea it even existed until we integrated it into the profile pages on Mahalo (here’s some more info on Goodreads (*)). On a whim, I decided [...]

Robert Jordan (*) died this past week of “complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (*).” I’m sorry for his friends and family. Selfishly, I realize that I’ve read over 11,000 pages of his fiction and I will never know how the Wheel of Time series will end.

One of the problems for me when I was working at Netscape was information overload. Netscape was all about breaking news and staying on top of the breaking news, and since I was the editorial director there for so long, I woke up each morning, checked the news, checked to see if top stories were [...]

It is decided. The Samsung BlackJack is officially my favorite mobile ever. It even trumps my beloved old 3650, despite the lack of hackability that I enjoyed with that device.
I can blog with it (I’m doing so now); via setting up all my Gmail to forward to an Outlook account for $7 a month, [...]

This site is awesome. You can select the format for the books and they have Sony’s Reader format! w00t! Check it out. Thanks to Travis for pointing to it in the comments of my mini-review.

Well, title to this post, because I’ve been super duper busy. That has not changed, but I’m still waiting for the coffee to take effect this morning, so I thought I’d jump start my synapses by getting a little blogging time in with STW.
As you may recall, I have a new job. I’m loving it. [...]

Greek Books

Originally uploaded by C.K. Sample, III.

I recently picked up some New Testament Greek aids. The one on the left is a Reader’s Greek New Testament, which has the definitions for all the uncommon Greek words in the footnotes at the bottom of each page. [...]

BoingBoing links to the 50 most cited works of 1976-1983 and lists the top 10. I’ve read 6 of the top ten. How many have you read?

I spotted this over at Playlist, but LibriVox is the kind of project that I like to see and that I hope succeeds:

If you’re reading this, please give us a plug on your blog, we’re a totally volunteer project just trying to see if we can make this idea work, so consider volunteering to [...]

This is cool: Boing Boing: Open access scholarly lit bibliography, with links.

This post over at Boing Boing by Cory might prove useful for a class discussion, focused around how we write in a technological age. Here’s Cory’s bits:

Steven Johnson (author of the fantastic Mind Wide Open and other books) has written a fascinating essay about his new creative process, which involves a suite of tools that [...]

Guernica is out with its Winter issue, and looking much better than it did last time it came out. I like the site redesign. Check it out.

Today, in the mail, despite a not-entirely-correct address on the label, I received an issue of mental_floss magazine - feel smart again. It looks like someone subscribed me for the new year. I also have subscriptions to Inc. (going on two years) and Details (close to a year now). I have never subscribed to [...]

Found the Bibliotheca Alexandrina via MoorishGirl. Cool.

Irvine Welsh likes Jane Austen:

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Gritty Author Welsh Reveals Love of Jane Austen
“They’re still to me, the greatest books ever written by English novelists.
“If you can take it almost as a sort of canon, on the whole they’ve been such a powerful, devastating influence on literature, British literature, European literature.”

I [...]

Looks like 2005 is breaking Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day feed: Dictionary.com: Not found.

Check it out:

Welcome to WoNoWriYea! « WoNoWriYea Welcome to World Novel Writing Year! The idea, much like NaNoWriMo, is to write a novel within a set period of time. Rather than being restricted to NaNoWriMo’s month-long time frame, WoNoWriYea starts on January 1st, 2005 and ends on December 31st, 2005: a full year of writing. [...]

Read this:

MoorishGirl: Bye Bye Library?
While I’m all for digitizing information and propagating it by the simplest means possible, I’m also concerned that some people on Capitol Hill might use this as a further excuse to cut funding for libraries.

This is a concern I hadn’t thought of before. I’ve been hooraying Google’s every scholarly move. [...]