February 2010
9 posts
Jason Epstein and Digital Books
Jason Epstein is no Luddite. One of his recent projects is the Espresso Book Machine, a print-on-demand device that produces a library-quality paperback book at the point of sale. Epstein worries about the implications of digital publishing: That the contents of the world’s libraries will eventually be accessed practically anywhere at the click of a mouse is not an unmixed blessing. Another...
Databending
A nice way to waste time on a Friday afternoon is by databending jpg files. Open any jpg picture in a hex editor and mess around. Usually, you’ll change the picture in glitchy, unintended ways. Sometimes, you get something interesting. Once in a while, the jpg is corrupted beyond repair, so make sure you’re working on a copy. stAllio! has a decent and simple primer, and there is a...
Norwegian Curling Pants
Seattle Times:
Nothing says “I’m An Olympian, Take Me Seriously” quite like red, white and blue argyle pants. Posted via email from K.’s posterous | Comment »
What I read when I was a kid
How and Why Wonderbooks:
HOW AND WHY WONDER BOOKS were written mostly in period from 1960 to the early 1970s. The audience for this collection of books was young people. All of books followed a similar format and were typically written in a form of a question followed up by an answer paragraph. Virtually all of the illustrations were hand art (not photographs). This page serves to document these...
Moonbow
Mars rising over Haleakala Crater Moonbow. via. According to Wikipedia:
A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow, lunar bow or white rainbow) is a rainbow produced by light reflected off the surface of the moon rather than from direct sunlight. Moonbows are relatively faint, due to the smaller amount of light reflected from the surface of the Moon. They are always in the opposite part of the...
Steampunk Blunderbuss
Doesn’t run on steam, but actually shoots rubber balls really really hard. via Posted via email from K.’s posterous | Comment »
Gnome Press
Gnome Press was a US small press running from 1948 to 1962. Edited by Martin Greenberg (an “outright crook” according to Asimov), Gnome published early hardcovers of many pulp era authors, like Howard, Heinlein, Asimov (who never saw a dime for the Gnome edition of the Foundation Trilogy), Van Vogt, and so on. Several notable fen and pros worked for Gnome: Andre Norton, L. Sprague...