30 March, 2008:
Posted at 18h11. Permalink.
Books read March 2008, with date finished:
- A Science Fiction Omnibus, Brian Aldiss (editor) (13th)
- The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam, Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah (translators) (13th, r.)
- The Purple Cloud, M. P. Shiel (13th)
- A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes (15th)
- The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard (20th)
- The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Edward R. Tufte (21st)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard (22nd, r.)
- Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson (23rd, r.)
- What is History?, E. H. Carr (26th)
- 253, Geoff Ryman (30th)
Graves' fraudulent Rubaiyyat is breath-taking, as always. Cherry-Garrard, Carr, Stoppard and Ryman are also happy additions to this month's reading. But Barthes' Lover's Discourse is an observed and poignant pattern language of love. Recommended.
4 March:
Posted at 17h50. Permalink.
Speaking at ETech. I've snagged a last minute speaking spot today (Tuesday) at 16h55, in the Mission Hills room--I'll be rambling through ideas from science fiction and vaguely relating it to design (a toned version of this talk). Come along. (I gave a 5 minute science fictional tour of the Solar System yesterday, as part of the Ignite session. This will be similar.)
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