If you haven’t already bought this term’d textbooks, here are a dozen sites ready to sell them cheap.
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=868bf541f0ff969aa049c14b9bdf7534 via Byline A look at the long list of Web sites that help college students find the cheapest textbooks available.
Feel guilty about stuffing all that giftwrapping in the trash? Stuff it in the garden instead, thanks to these examples of growable packaging.
Writing in the Atlantic, Dylan Tweney claims that online publishing is challenging designers to give up the control they were used to in print publications and even in the first decade of the Web. According to Tweney, software like Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript and platforms like the iPad are enabling the separation of form and content like never before.
At the same time, designers are increasingly in demand to find efficient ways to convey people and information, as some recent remarkable examples of design make clear. So who’s right?
Most students just “rent” textbooks anyway, so why not rent them digitally?
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/ifElS7LIESQ/ via Byline With the rise of tablets and e-readers, software developers and textbook publishers are making yet another effort to take textbooks digital. The latest entrant is Inkling, a textbook app for the iPad.
Famed science fiction author Neal Stephenson has unveiled a digital novel platform created with a cabal of interactive fiction / martial arts enthusiasts. To judge from initial glimpses of their first interactive novel, The Mongoliad, this “new” platform is more of a combination of older ideas: part interactive CD-ROM (Voyager in the 1980s), part paid subscription (the New York Times in the 1990s), and part user-generated content (Wikipedia in the 2000s). At least the authors have given up on DRM from the get-go.
I’m not making that title up–it’s a book about how the stuff we buy ends up under our skin, quite literally:
Over a four-day period, our intrepid (and perhaps foolhardy) authors ingest and inhale a host of things that surround us all every day, all of which are suspected of being toxic and posing long term health risks to humans. By revealing the pollution load in their bodies before and after the experiment – and the results in most cases are downright frightening – they tell the inside story of seven common substances.
I’m not making that title up–it’s a book about how the stuff we buy ends up under our skin, quite literally:
Over a four-day period, our intrepid (and perhaps foolhardy) authors ingest and inhale a host of things that surround us all every day, all of which are suspected of being toxic and posing long term health risks to humans. By revealing the pollution load in their bodies before and after the experiment – and the results in most cases are downright frightening – they tell the inside story of seven common substances.
I’m not making that title up–it’s a book about how the stuff we buy ends up under our skin, quite literally:
Over a four-day period, our intrepid (and perhaps foolhardy) authors ingest and inhale a host of things that surround us all every day, all of which are suspected of being toxic and posing long term health risks to humans. By revealing the pollution load in their bodies before and after the experiment – and the results in most cases are downright frightening – they tell the inside story of seven common substances.
http://slowdeathbyrubberduck.com/ (via Vanessa Vobis)
network, sharing, software, Orono, library
If you like the idea, email Deborah Rollins on First Class to ask her to extend the free trial beyond the spring.
Personally, though, I think the title “Windows for Dummies” is redundant. *ducks*
Fogler Library is pleased to provide a 6-month trial to Safari Tech Books Online at
http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp
The database has approximately 3,000 full-text IT titles on topics including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linus/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, and more. Publishers include O’Reilly Media Inc., Pearson Technology Group, Adobe, Idea Group, Sams, Wiley “For Dummies” books, and many more. Because there is a limit of 2 simultaneous users, please click “Sign Out & Clear Session” when done using the database. Fogler Library’s trial subscription expires June 30, 2010.
For assistance using the database, please contact Reference (581-1673) or Science & Engineering (581-1691).
network, sharing, software, Orono, library
If you like the idea, email Deborah Rollins on First Class to ask her to extend the free trial beyond the spring.
Personally, though, I think the title “Windows for Dummies” is redundant. *ducks*
Fogler Library is pleased to provide a 6-month trial to Safari Tech Books Online at
http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp
The database has approximately 3,000 full-text IT titles on topics including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linus/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, and more. Publishers include O’Reilly Media Inc., Pearson Technology Group, Adobe, Idea Group, Sams, Wiley “For Dummies” books, and many more. Because there is a limit of 2 simultaneous users, please click “Sign Out & Clear Session” when done using the database. Fogler Library’s trial subscription expires June 30, 2010.
For assistance using the database, please contact Reference (581-1673) or Science & Engineering (581-1691).
If you like the idea, email Deborah Rollins on First Class to ask her to extend the free trial beyond the spring.
Personally, though, I think the title “Windows for Dummies” is redundant. *ducks*
Fogler Library is pleased to provide a 6-month trial to Safari Tech Books Online at
http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp
The database has approximately 3,000 full-text IT titles on topics including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linus/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, and more. Publishers include O’Reilly Media Inc., Pearson Technology Group, Adobe, Idea Group, Sams, Wiley “For Dummies” books, and many more. Because there is a limit of 2 simultaneous users, please click “Sign Out & Clear Session” when done using the database. Fogler Library’s trial subscription expires June 30, 2010.
For assistance using the database, please contact Reference (581-1673) or Science & Engineering (581-1691).