Dec 08 2008
The Post-American World by Fareed ZakariaThis book briefly flared into the limelight this campaign season when Barack Obama was seen reading it. It also inspired yet another…
Oct 22 2008
Andrew Keen has no idea how open models work.
In his latest article, he pontificates that the recent economic downturn is a death knell for community-supported or community-built programs/sites/&c.
So how will today’s brutal economic climate change the Web 2.0 “free” economy?…
Oct 01 2008
Sep 29 2008
See if you can intuit this one:
Feb 09 2008
Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by The OnionThe Onion has long been known as one of the snarkiest satirical rags…
Feb 08 2008
Condensed Knowledge ed. Will Pearson & al.My brother’s been reading mental_floss and its associated books for several years. Condensed Knowledge is, to the extent of my knowledge, the first of their…
Jan 29 2008
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics by Jonathan ChaitEconomics books are notoriously difficult reading. It seems like even…
Jan 27 2008
Dave Barry’s History of the Millenium (So Far) by Dave BarryI’ve noticed that Dave Barry has been waning in recent years. Maybe it’s just me, or maybe that’s…
Jun 12 2007
Boomsday by Christopher BuckleyI’ve previously covered Christopher Buckley’s book from more than a decade ago, Thank You for Smoking (which was recently turned into a major motion picture that more…