Book Flog w/ David K.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Summer Book Roundup
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So. Summer is on its way out, and I have updated this blog even less than I did during the year. Which isn’t good, considering that a lot ...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Preliminary Thoughts on Scientific Prose
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Many ideological diatribes are stimulated by personal vendettas, and this one is no different. Today, I went to the physics office to pick ...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, by Samuel C. Florman
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It’s an ugly trend, I know, for book reviews to center too much around the reviewer—a sign, perhaps, that the reviewer is too much of a self...
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Monday, January 18, 2010
"The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. --Rei...
Thursday, December 24, 2009
American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
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Among books, American Psycho is something of a dirty celebrity, a work whose dribbling trail of sleazy reputation precedes it. The one-sen...
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning...was the Command Line"
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Tonight, I read Neal Stephenson ’s book-length essay, In the Beginning…was the Command Line , which on one level is a meditation on computer...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Working Stiff, by Grant Stoddard
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Working Stiff is an embarrassing book to carry around. The subtitle— The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert —is in a small enough font...
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