The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Apparently, they are reproductions from a book titled The 300 Meter Tower, written by Eiffel himself, and published by Lemercier in 1900. I wasn’t able to find an electronic copy of the book (it’s likely out of copyright), but I did come across another book about the tower published in 1889.
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Eiffel blueprints
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December 27 2009, 1:41pm | Comments »
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Alice as mathematical satire
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The absurdity in Alice in Wonderland is often attributed to drugs or a dark trip into the subconscious. For her PhD work, Melanie Bayley examined some of the most popular scenes from a mathematical perspective, which is summed up in Alice’s adventures in algebra. Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Caroll) was a rather conservative mathematician, who disagreed with many of the new mathematical theories emerging during the 19th century. The madness of Wonderland, I believe, reflects Dodgson’s views on the dangers of this new symbolic algebra. Alice has moved from a rational world to a land where even numbers behave erratically. I don’t imagine that Tim Burton’s new Alice in Wonderland will delve too deeply into mathematical theory.
December 17 2009, 11:08am | Comments »
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Cormac McCarthy on The Road
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A discussion with Cormac McCarthy and John Hillcoat. There’s some information about the film adaptation of The Road, his next novel, and insight into McCarthy’s process. I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. McCarthy also decided to part with his typewriter, it sold at auction for more than a quarter million dollars. He’s not going digital though, a friend bought him the same Olivetti model to replace the old one.
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December 11 2009, 8:46pm | Comments »
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Bookstore stupidity
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Stupid Quotes from BookMine. You can only wonder what goes on in the heads of some people.
December 10 2009, 11:52am | Comments »
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Barthleme’s syllabus
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Donald Barthleme’s list of must-read literature. Can’t say I’ve read much on the list, but it seems like a good starting point on the way to becoming better read. Phil Gyford posted a full-text list of the books, which is probably a bit easy to print out and drag along with you.
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November 13 2009, 1:37pm | Comments »
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Pictorial Webster’s
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Pictorial Webster’s features over four hundred original woodcut and copper engravings from 19th century editions of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The fine press edition features a letterpress interior, leather binding and a hand-tooled cover. A trade edition of the book is now available from Chronicle Books.
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October 26 2009, 7:52am | Comments »
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Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
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October 16 2009, 2:41pm | Comments »
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calibre
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ebook management app
October 7 2009, 1:53pm | Comments »
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Books in a digital world
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Want to know why books will never go away? Read this blurb from the description of Code(x)+1. The book is a durable artifact in which author, reader, and the artisans who make and preserve them enter into ordered and potentially pleasurable relationships. A printed book is enhanced by the materials and processes with which it is made. The book in the era of digital reproduction is an object of pleasure as well as a container of information. To consult information relieved of the pleasures of turning a page, smelling ink, or admiring the binding, we can rely on the internet. The book as ark of deposit requires neither electricity nor fossil fuel to either read or maintain. The book as an object dwells at the intersections of writing and art, philosophy and poetics, science and scholarship. The structure of a book is a sculpture for reading. The meaning is transmitted and the book remains. The production run is limited to 500, anyone want to buy me a copy?
September 17 2009, 7:08am | Comments »