So the receptionist sees my dog and says, "Fourteen! I had a Maltese that lived to be 25 years old. It died of an accident. It was blind for a few years. But it was fine, you know? One day when no one was looking, it fell in the swimming pool. But before that, it got hit by a car, it got bit by a Doberman, and it chewed a live electric cable. Very...
Cyberflanerie: This 'n That 'n Cat Edition
Originally in Japanese! By Kaori Tsutaya, translated by Amy Hirschman, an uber weird 'n charming n' peculiarly practical book on how to make lots of little things, most especially felted finger puppets, from, yeah, cat hair. If you liked Knitting with Dog Hair...Swedish UFO...
Cyberflanerie: Epic Travel Edition
This is a Generic Brand Video (Dissolve.com)Based on the poem by Kendra Eash (Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency)Photos from John Snyder's Epic Crossing of Ethiopia (University of Chicago Magazine)Time TravelWind TravelBy the Book: Wonderlands for Bibliophiles, collected by Bryan Kitch / AFAR StaffAustin Butterflies(See Austin...
Cyberflanerie: Rare Books Digest Edition
Rare Books Digest on:Renaissance "Theaters of Machines"Commuter Libraries (and I expect to see these make a comeback)Letter from Greece (very sad)Rare Book Conservation Tips & TechniquesRare Book Sale MonitorFair / Sale CalendarMore anon.Previous posts on rare books include>A...
End of Life Experiences
A fascinating and excellent talk: Mary Atkins at TEDx San Antonio on End of Life Experiences.COMM...
Las Misiones Jesuíticas de la Antigua California, Baja California Sur, México (The Jesuit of Missions of Antigua California)
Dr W. Michael MathesTalks about the origins of the Jesuitenterprise in Antigua CaliforniaFrom the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kaovp9rSQrAA most delightfully nostalgic evening spent watching the DVD my amiga the Mexican historian Carmen Boone-Canovas recently sent...
Updating a Kindle and a Print-on-Demand Paperback: The Never Ending Story
In Days of Yore, when printing book meant 2,000 + copies shipped to a warehouse, the mistake of, say, having called Jorge Luis Borges "José Luis Borge" would remain in one's book and upon one's conscience (like an itchy scar) until the reprint-- which, for most books, never...
Cyberflanerie: Mitch Horowitz on Occult of Personality; Reese on Rare Books; Desert Breath; Regina Leeds; Money is a Story
Over at Greg Kaminsky's Occult of Personality podcast, a long interview with Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America and One Simple Idea. Highly recommended.Whither the book biz? An oldie but goodie: William Reese's talk about rare books at the Library of Congress.Whither the book biz? Take 2 (sigh): Desert Breath sculpture in Egypt,...
Cyberflanerie: Digital Economics Edition
Enter Airbnb and a little far West Texas town starts turning into... read Rachel Monroe on housing trends in Marfa, TXRobotenomics-- excellent new blogSeth Roberts says Nick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin(more bitocoiniana here)Amazing prices for organic crops (Gene Logsdon, the Contrary Farmer)(He's the author of the hilarious and...
What Is Happening to the Publishing Business? Watch Philip Evans' TED Talk: How Data Will Transform Business
A highly recommended, brief, business-oriented TED talk. Take home point: the nature and role of institutions (plug in "publishing house" here) are defined by transactions costs. Transaction costs are plummeting because the economics of communicating and processing information are plummeting. Ergo, as Philip Evans puts it, "technology is driving...
Cyberflanerie: Sound and Noise Edition
If they can figure out how to market this they will be billionaires.Jonathan Goldman's Healing SoundsDidgeridoo soundsMy favorite Thistle and Shamrock show: HarpersMore anon.COMME...
Optimize impactful ROI! Expedite B2C architectures! Embrace user-centric e-markets!
Get more hooey at the WebEconomy Bullshit Generator (hat tip to the ever-fabulous Swiss Miss).P.S. Previously mentioned here at Madam Mayo, who keeps an eye open to these wee wonders:Write Your Own Academic SentenceLink Bait GeneratorCOMME...
Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin: This splendid, intrepid, and thoroughly original marvel goes on my top 10 list for 2014. Most interestingly, in this day & age of facebookesque over-sharing, Emma Larkin has no web page to refer to, such is the nature of her...
Cyberflanerie: Cleverly Icelandic & More Random Clevernesses Edition
Cleverly Icelandic: Besti Flokkurin, mayoral campaign song video. Via Seth Roberts, on We Need Only One Santa. (More from this ray of shiva guy, I mean Seth Roberts, here and here and here and here.)Totally clever! Watch about 1:30 minutes in: How to remove a ring from a swollen finger.For Mexico City newbies: my amigo David Lida gives...
How I Published My Kindles (Easy Peasy, Sort Of)
Gosh, I've been having at least a couple of conversations per week (oftentimes more) with fellow writers looking to bring out their own Kindle(s), so I'll just quit yammering and copy/paste this blog post into my email replies. And here's hoping this may be of use or interest...
