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The Notion Ink Adam

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Some time ago I began questing for a movie-playing device. I may have found one, but unfortunately not one which I necessarily should be buying.

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New Miéville

Thursday, May 7, 2009

China Miéville has a new book coming out. In stores four days before my birthday. Not that I’m hinting at anything, you understand.1 For those who don’t like spoilers, there’s a post on Suvudu with some details, plus video of the author not giving away the central conceit. For those who like spoilers, Publisher’s Weekly [...]

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Gadget lust

Friday, September 21, 2007

I’ve been looking again at the iLiad1 ebook reader, and it just keeps looking better and better. You can get shell access. You can make notes onscreen. There are LaTeX users using it, posting style files, and they’ve been added to the downloads page. It weighs about the same as a medium-sized banana.2 The only [...]

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Instrument lust

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

I’ve been telling people lately about a new instrument I’ve fallen in love with: the baglamas (Gr. μπαγλαμάς). It’s a tiny version of a bouzouki1, intended to complement my mandola Marama2. A baglamas is tiny, certainly small enough to take travelling — Marama, on the other hand, has a sturdy wooden travel box weighing in [...]

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BLDGBOOK

Saturday, May 26, 2007

The super-cool architecture blog BLDGBLOG will be publishing a book! (The bad news is, not until spring 2009.) Congratulations to Geoff, and everyone else should use the time to wander over and check out his archives — by the time the book appears, you’ll know you need it. Some favourites of mine: 1, 2, 3, [...]

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Can’t Wait(s)

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Ooh ooh wow oh wow. November 21st can’t come soon enough. Think I might have to buy this one in plastic — a 94-page booklet?! I don’t see myself downloading that, somehow…

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