The litter in littérateur. » Books http://rickyopaterny.com/blog Ricky Opaterny on Books, Music, Art, and Sports Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:18:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Drawing Google Street View http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2010/03/08/drawing-google-street-view/ http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2010/03/08/drawing-google-street-view/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:15:04 +0000 Rick http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/?p=887
  • Who’s reading your blog in Google Reader? Someone once said that weblogs contain a gold mine of...
  • So: is Google a good thing? John Lanchester asks, “Is Google a good thing?” in the...
  • Google is the answer to the problem we didn’t have Jason Zengerie has a very good profile of Malcolm Gladwell...
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  • San Francisco Examiner: Rally planned to help save Kepler’s Books The Examiner ran a brief story about the rally scheduled...
  • Palo Alto Weekly: Nearly 450 rally to help save Kepler’s Palo Alto Online has posted a story about today’s rally...
  • Save Kepler’s Mailing List and How to Help Thank you to all who attended the rally last week...
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  • San Jose Mercury: Amazon board member Doerr also a Kepler’s contributor John Doerr, well-known Silicon Valley venture capitalist and board member...
  • Winning Eleven and Amazon I pre-ordered Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer for Xbox 360...
  • Response to Amazon removing books from users’ Kindles David Ulin writes in the LA Times about Amazon’s latest:...
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  • The New Yorker profile of David Foster Wallace D.T. Max’s  profile of DFW, which runs in this week’s...
  • David Foster Wallace on Bookworm I enjoyed Michael Silverblatt’s recent interview of DFW on KCRW’s...
  • Watch Video of Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address ...
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  • Photoshop for real From Flickr, here is a real life version of the Adobe...
  • Can the NYT’s glossy-style sections subsidize real news coverage? Is his Public Editor column in Sunday’s New York Times,...
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  • Habitats – For a Writer, a Home With a Hideout – NYTimes.com Today’s New York Times profiles novelist Roxana Robinson. I can’t...
  • Memories of Kepler’s and Weekend Photos People from all over have been sending in their memories...
  • Weekend Round-up The Contra Costa Times summarizes and laments the state of...
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  • The most popular independent bookstores in America (on Twitter) NFI Research has compiled a list of the independent bookstores...
  • Booksmith beats the odds The San Francisco Chronicle recently ran a story about the recent...
  • Coliseum Books to close Coliseum Books in New York will be closing before the...
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  • Reactions to the iPad Adam Gopnik and other New Yorker staffers responded to Apple’s...
  • How to get AppleCare cheap? The answer is eBay. Like many but not enough people, I understand that extended...
  • My favorite things of 2009 Here’s a list of things from 2009 that I particularly...
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  • Why the iPad buzz doesn’t matter A lot of people are saying a lot of...
  • The New Yorker digital edition is already a disappointment I spent two hours yesterday waiting in line, unsuccessfully,...
  • My favorite things of 2009 Here’s a list of things from 2009 that I particularly...
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  • My favorite iPhone and iPod Touch apps I’ve been playing around with these devices for most of...
  • Why the iPad buzz doesn’t matter A lot of people are saying a lot of...
  • Orhan Pamuk’s father and his suitcase For weeks, the New Yorkers in my mail stack pile...
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