bike library
Its not fuel efficiency, but how much you drive that matters. Escape cars and invent your own culture.
Steve and Cody show us how and kindly link to FotB.com. Librarians and FotB readers should also go to
Bike Library
split fountain
With a real retro, but 4-color feel,
Artists' Book News covers the city.
liberation mythology of the internet
"This mythology is founded on a sweeping historical revisionism that conjures up an imaginary predigital world - a world of profound physical and economic constraints - from which the web is now liberating us. We were enslaved, and now we are saved. In a bizarrely fanciful twist, the digital world is presented as a "natural" counterpoint to the supposed artificiality of the physical world."
Nicholas Carr
paper or plastic recycling?
"Each year, between 20 and 50 million tons of electronic waste is generated globally. Most of it winds up in the developing world.
Some of the most popular destinations for dumping computer hardware include China, India, and Nigeria. It can be 10 times cheaper for a “recycler” to ship waste to China than to dispose of it properly at home. With the market for e-waste expected to top $11 billion by 2009, it’s lucrative to dump on the developing world."
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Rough Type)
rush to print
The Future of the Book (dot com) website is becoming a print publication. Commentaries, Reports and Postings over an eight year span are now moving to book-on-demand format. These volumes will be available at
Iowa Book Works.
beyond screen vs. print
In the end it is not important which format is senior and which is junior, which is the manuscript and which is the published presentation or which format is forward looking. What is useful is that the future of the book may depend on the integration of attributes of networked and physical book.
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