a travelogue
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01/31/07
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Blog Post from
Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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Catologue Raisonne
Jeffrey Toobin, a legal columnist over at the New Yorker, has written a piece about Google’s book scanning project and the legal challenges it faces. In a nutshell, two lawsuits are threatening the Google Book Search project, one is from a consortium of big name publishers who, curiously, are also Google’s partners in the project, and the other is from …
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Topics:
Books,
Copyright,
Writing
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05/26/08
Short Blog Post
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Blindness
I was having a late night run through Apple’s movie trailer site when I discovered that there’s a movie coming out based on one of my favorite books — José Saramago’s Blindness. Ordinarily I would consider this horrible news, but …
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Topics:
Books,
Movies
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01/07/04
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Blog Post from
28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
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David Foster Wallace on Infinity
I’ve been reading David Foster Wallace’s new book1 Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity for a few days now and I’m happy to report that it’s everything you would expect from the author of Infinite Jest. And I mean that in the best way possible. Wallace tends to provoke strong sentiments among readers. As my friend Mike put …
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Topics:
Books,
Future,
Mathematics,
Writing