This is a pretty sweet blog, and in this particular entry this book is discussed. Basically, it's a book explaining how video and computer games can be beneficial to a child's education.
A remarkable, intense portrait of the robotic subculture and the challenging quest for robot autonomy.
Michael Grady writes "Computer graphics has become an indispensable
part of mainstream computing and the undergraduate course in
computer graphics programming is often one of the most popular
courses in the curriculum. In the early days, such courses dealt with low
level implementation details and algorithms such as converting lines to
pixels, filling rectangles, view clipping and [...]
David Weinberger, author of the brand new Everything is Miscellaneous,
a book about how the Internet is destroying traditional notions of
organization, subject and heirarchy, did a recent interview with me
about metadata and civil liberties. He’s posted it as the first part of a
podcast series of interviews with interested parties.
To honor the passing of Kurt Vonnegut, one of the rare and universally
loved literary world greats, we present this special podcast of his very
first public reading of the classic Breakfast of Champions, three years
before it was published, on May 4, 1970 at the 92nd Street Y. Vonnegut
appeared at the Y a total of seven times and he had much admiration for
the audience at the corner of 92nd S
Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its head. It analyzes the ten million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest.