Books

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Microserfs, 12 Years Later: I really enjoyed Douglas Coupland’s early books, probably up to (but no necessarily including) Girlfriend in a Coma. One of my favourites was Microserfs, a book about Microsoft programmers trying to get a life. Via Waxy, a Microsoft employee revisits…; Continue reading entry #3584

Trust the Man Looks Like a Charming Movie: I recently saw the trailer for Trust the Man (remarkably, no official website), a slightly-indy romantic comedy with a promising cast: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Maggie Gyllenhaal plus the hilarious Gary Shandling (and, unfortunately, Eva Mendes). Nothing extraordinary,…; Continue reading entry #3560

Lauch Your Web Career: I know this is the pot calling the kettle black, but check out the egregious spelling error on the cover of this book from O’Reilly (thanks, Colene). They’ve got it right over at Amazon, so they’ve already caught it on…; Continue reading entry #3475

Additional items in Books: Should Joy Kogawa's Childhood Home Be Saved?; Cell Phones are the New Black; A List of Year-End Lists; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; Jay Ingram on Theatre of the Mind; Gunslinger Comes to Comics; Major Rewrites of Hamlet and the Odyssey; First Issue of Y: The Last Man Online; Aesthetic Surgery as Freak Show; Books Read, Reading, To Be Read; Raincoast Gets White Powder Scare; In a Very Small Club; Guns Don't Kill People, Books Do; Merton Reading at the Library; Statistically Improbable Phrases and Other Fun With Words; I Hate Business Books; I Missed Kate Beckinsale's Butt; Hunter S. Thompson, 1937 - 2005; Nick Hornby on Amazon; The Book Industry is Small and Cruel; Boy Discovers Facts From Real World; The Secret Staircase in Jane Eyre; What To Do With Your Dust Jackets?; PrintMyBlog: Not Dumb, Just Not Quite Right; Paris Review Interviews Online; Culture Jamming, Culture Schmamming; The Gunslinger Series is Complete; Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed; Thomas Merton on Lake Tahoe; Why is the Book Club a Female Institution?; Literary Convergence and Stephen King's Wang; Echo Memoirs in the Globe; Books, Shmooks; Books That I Gave Up On; Can I Borrow a Couple Mill?; Can I Borrow a Couple Mill?; Left Behind and the Christian Economy; Free Culture; The Loneliness of the Midlist Author; Whither World Book; PowerPoint Anthology of Literature; Book Tracker; Link Round-Up: Books; The Bible That Looks Like a Magazine!; Douglas Coupland on Canada, Etc.