Posts with the tag « book » :

🔗 Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

[img[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1437962621l/1936029.SY475.jpg]]

From Jenne on Goodreads:

The author has one thing he wants to tell you in this book: faceted classification is awesome, and now that more things are digitized, we can actually use it.

(Faceted classification is where something is categorized in more than one place, e.g. how you can put a book on more than one Goodreads shelf, as opposed to in real life where it can only be in one physical location)

I kept skipping chapters to see if he had anything else to say, but if he did I missed it. He does have a lot of interesting metaphors that he uses to explain things, at least. Like if …

🔗 Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software: Petzold, Charles: 4708364241393: Amazon.com: Books

-

What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries. Using everyday objects and familiar language systems such as Braille and Morse code, author Charles Petzold weaves an illuminating narrative for anyone who’s ever wondered about the secret inner life of computers and other smart machines. It’s a cleverly illustrated and eminently book

🔗 Antilibrary FAQ : antilibrary

-

Antilibrary is a virtual library for ebooks collected from around the web and from libraries. The project is focused on non-fiction books. Our mission is to give access to the knowledge contained in books. We believe that ebooks piracy is still a necessary evil. Those who are most in need of knowledge are the ones who have the least access to it. Antilibrary is a band-aid fix to this hopefully temporary reality. If you have the means make sure you purchase the books you like! Supporting the author is the most important thing you can do if you like a book. Buy books to you and many copies to your friends and family. Go to your local bookstore and do it, now! Antilibrary is not an alternative to …