China Underground
Title: China Underground
Author: Zachary Mexico
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Soft Skull Press (March 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593762232
ISBN-13: 978-1593762230
I bought this book for our trip to Italy from an independent LA bookstore.
And I loved it! I want to go to China more now than ever before.
There are 16 stories, each about one or more underground players that [...]
March 27th, 2009 by alephnaught
The Taqwacores
Title: The Taqwacores
Author: Michael Muhammad Knight
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Revised Edition edition (January 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593762291
ISBN-13: 978-1593762292
This book claims to be about Muslim punks, but in reality its a coming of age, and coming to his personal understanding of Islam, story of a Muslim young man. Yusef’s family is from Pakistan, [...]
March 22nd, 2009 by alephnaught
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Title: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Author: Seth Godin
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover; 1 edition (October 16, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591842336
ISBN-13: 978-1591842330
I’ve read a few of Seth Godin’s books before and always learned something from them. So, I decided to bring this along on my vacation to Italy.
The book begins with “A tribe is a [...]
March 7th, 2009 by alephnaught
Uzumaki, Volume 2 (2nd Edition)
Title: Uzumaki, Volume 2 (2nd Edition)
Author: Junji Ito (Illustrator), Annette Roman (Editor)
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; 2 edition (December 18, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421513900
ISBN-13: 978-1421513904
I recently finished the first volume of the Uzumaki series and just had to continue the story of the spirals.
The main characters, Kirie, a school girl, and Shuichi, her recluse [...]
March 6th, 2009 by alephnaught
Mac software: DropBox, Googaby, and Things
Thanks to Twitter, I found three tools that are now a critical part of my computing life.
The first tool is Things. Things is a task list manager that implements the important parts of the personal task management system created by author David Allen called Getting Things Done. Tasks can have tags and notes; notes can [...]
March 5th, 2009 by alephnaught
MAKE YOUR POINT!: SPEAK CLEARLY AND CONCISELY ANYPLACE, ANYTIME
Title: MAKE YOUR POINT!: SPEAK CLEARLY AND CONCISELY ANYPLACE, ANYTIME
Author: Bob Elliott (Author), Kevin Carroll (Author)
Paperback: 132 pages
Publisher: AuthorHouse (February 8, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1420804391
ISBN-13: 978-1420804393
Our Toastmasters club, Navigators Toastmasters, hands this book each week to the second place speaking finisher. I don’t like competition and don’t like awards for club activities, probably because I [...]
March 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught
Witchblade Volume 1: Witch Hunt (v. 1)
Title: Witchblade Volume 1: Witch Hunt (v. 1)
Author: Ron Marz (Author), Mike Choi (Author)
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Top Cow Productions/Image Comics (February 13, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1582409064
ISBN-13: 978-1582409061
I’ve been on a graphic novel kick lately, so when I saw this in a store (probably a Borders or a Barnes and Noble around here), I decided to give [...]
March 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
Uzumaki, Volume 1
Title: Uzumaki, Volume 1
Author: Junji Ito (Illustrator), Annette Roman (Editor)
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; 2 edition (October 16, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421513897
ISBN-13: 978-1421513898
I saw this book at my favorite Japanese bookstore in Los Angeles (and in New York City too), Kinokuniya, and thought I’d give it a shot.
I enjoyed this book so much I’ve [...]
March 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
The meaning of life – the 42 Firefox extensions I use
I thought it was time to share my own list of Firefox extensions that I use (I constructed this list using the Extension List Dumper, which I used to help me move from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 by identifying the extensions I needed to update or replace). I currently have 42 extensions installed.
Aardvark 2.97
http://karmatics.com/aardvark/
Firefox [...]
February 28th, 2009 by alephnaught
Glasses, books and Formosa Cafe
We headed out late after doing some cleaning around the apartment.
First stop was Retrospecs, a nice glasses shop on Melrose in West Hollywood. Aviva ordered a new pair of glasses there, and I found some nice circular frames.
The Bodhi Tree book store was nearby so we walked over. I got a book on creativity and [...]
English
March 29th, 2009 by alephnaught
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