Archive for May, 2006

Better Counter Argument Against Google Print

Kevin Kelly wrote an article over at the New York Times that articulates the danger of Google Print better than I can. Basically, if Google is allowed to scan works without certifying that they are in the public domain nor obtaining permission before hand, the responsibility to prevent copy-right infringment moves from the person scanning [...]

Still no new blog posts

I keep checking back here, hoping that somehow someone else wil have written something interesting. That seems improbable, I must admit.

The Lotos-Eaters

“COURAGE!” he said, and pointed toward the land, “This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.” In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along [...]

OMG! A new matador novel!

The AI over at Amazon just informed me that a new novel from Steve Perry is out in the matador series! It's called The Musashi Flex and I am very, very excited. I don't know if I've admitted this here before but I am a big Steve Perry fan. I think that Black Steel is an [...]

The Daily Show: Crack for Liberals

Back when I was a Software Manager and Editorial Assistant at the now dismembered AltaMira Press, we used to joke about how every book we put out had a colon in the title, eg, "Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Oral History Anthology of Oral History", or "Museum Movement Techniques: How to Craft [...]