The Hero’s Journey (Wherever I May Roam)
Rover, Wanderer …And the road becomes my brideI have stripped of all but prideSo in her I do confideAnd she keeps me satisfiedGives me all… Read More »The Hero’s Journey (Wherever I May Roam)
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Writing and Reading as Technology (6): History’s First Mass Literacy Campaign?
I haven’t been able to find a literacy campaign earlier than King Sejong the Great of Korea‘s 1443-1444 Hunminjeongeum (“The Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (6): History’s First Mass Literacy Campaign?
Our World in Data is Great and Getting Better; or, How I Destroyed Several Billion Medieval Manuscripts
Revisionist History Thursday, 20:02 hrs I report an error on an OWID graph in their preliminary collection of information about books. Some of the numbers… Read More »Our World in Data is Great and Getting Better; or, How I Destroyed Several Billion Medieval Manuscripts
Writing and Reading as Technology (6): Stop Press. Who invented moveable type?
Not Gutenberg Gutenberg put several important pieces together in a new way in 1439(ish) when he built what most of us probably think of as… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (6): Stop Press. Who invented moveable type?
Writing and Reading as Technology (5): Literacy as Infrastructure for Thought
The development of spoken language was humankind’s first great networking technology.* Speech allows us to communicate thought and to think far better than we could… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (5): Literacy as Infrastructure for Thought
Slava Akhmechet on reading in clusters
This is a great take on the benefits of reading clusters of books on a common theme. I like the way it takes the idea… Read More »Slava Akhmechet on reading in clusters
Trilogy: Books as Network
I’ve just finished reading Nicholas Monsarrat’s The Cruel Sea. It’s one of the best war novels I’ve read, and served as the final book in… Read More »Trilogy: Books as Network
Allen Downey on the cool things about free books (2)
More from Allen Downey (full version – recommended – here). A free license is not just a different way to distribute the same product; a… Read More »Allen Downey on the cool things about free books (2)
Allen Downey on the cool things about free books (1)
I love this story. Millions of people have learnt to program in Python using Think Python and its derivatives… not bad for a book that… Read More »Allen Downey on the cool things about free books (1)
Camatotz
… I will tell you something about this beautiful, enlightened planet of Camatotz… Perhaps you do not realise that on Camatotz we have conquered all… Read More »Camatotz