30 Very Funny Books--Seriously It's a dreary day, so I thought I'd indulge myself and come up with a list of my favorite comedies. A caveat, however: this is not a fancy English-professor-y list of the finest, most exquisitely crafted, most erudite or intellectually sophisticated works on paper in the language. This is a list of the books that make me laugh until my mascara starts to run. These are books to read over your first cup of coffee or just before you go to sleep . Remember: a day you've laughed is day you haven't wasted--even if you didn't get out of bed. Some days you need a jump-start to get to the funny parts of life. You've probably heard of most of these titles, and maybe you've already read several of them. You ready? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. And of course this is just the beginning.
Timeline การประกาศลาออกของสตีฟ จ็อบส์ ผ่านไปได้หลายวันแล้วสำหรับข่าวการลาออกจากตำแหน่งซีอีโอของสตีฟ จ็อบส์ซึ่งถือว่าเป็นข่าวช็อควงการไอทีทั่วโลกพอสมควร แต่หากพิจารณาถึงความเป็นมาเป็นไปของจ็อบส์ในช่วงตลอดปีที่ผ่านมา ก็จะเห็นได้ว่าการลาออกครั้งนี้ค่อนข้างมีที่มาที่ไป และก็ได้มีการเตรียมการไว้แล้วเป็นอย่างดี เราลองมาดู Timeline ของการประกาศลาออกครั้งนี้กัน มกราคม 2011 - จ็อบส์ประกาศลาป่วยอีกครั้งเป็นรอบที่ 3 แต่ไม่ได้ระบุว่าจะลาป่วยนานแค่ไหน (ครั้งเมื่อปี 2009 ประกาศว่าลา 6 เดือน) ปลายมกราคม 2011 - หลายสำนักออกข่าวเรื่องบอร์ดบริหารแอปเปิลเริ่มมองหาคนมาแทนจ็อบส์ในตำแหน่ง CEO หุ้นลงไป 3% มีนาคม 2011 - ปรากฏตัวในงานเปิดตัว iPad 2 เมษายน 2011 - สำนักพิมพ์ Simon & Schuster ประกาศเตรียมจัดทำหนังสือชีวประวัติของสตีฟ จ็อบส์ โดยได้รับการอนุญาตอย่างเป็นทางการ หนังสือมีชื่อสั้นๆ ว่า "Steve Jobs" มิถุนายน 2011 - ปรากฏตัวอีกครั้งในงาน WWDC 2011 เพื่อเปิดตัว iCloud กรกฏาคม 2011 - ก่อนเวลาที่แอปเปิลจะประกาศผลประกอบการในไตรมาส 2 ไม่นาน ก็มีข่าววงในจาก WSJ ว่าได้มีการยกเรื่องคนที่จะมาแทนจ็อบส์ ขึ้นมาคุยในการประชุมระดับบอร์ดบริหาร 18.45 น. 18.50 น.
ALL-TIME 100 Movies - TIME You like us, you really like us. You also hate us. Anyway, you click on us, which is the surest way a website has of measuring interest in its content. The All-TIME 100 Movies feature—compiled by Richard Schickel and me, and handsomely packaged by Josh Macht, Mark Coatney and all the smart folks at TIME.com—attracted a record-busting 7.8 million page views in its first week, including 3.5 million on May 23rd, its opening daym, in time for Father’s Day. Thousands of readers have written in to cheer or challenge our selections, and thousands more have voted for their own favorites. The response simply underscores Richard’s and my long-held belief that everybody has two jobs: his own and movie critic. The idea was to assemble 100 estimable films since TIME began, with the March 3, 1923 issue. Not so simple, in fact, for we faced a couple of complications. Why do the list? LISTOMANIA I feel one of my grand gender generalizations coming on, and I can’t resist it, so here goes. Corliss’s Cuts
NewzCrawler - Rss/atom reader, news aggregator and blog client UC Berkeley Summer Reading 2006 The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first CenturyThomas L. FriedmanNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 Although the message can be boiled down into fewer pages, a future President should understand that technology has created the opportunity for anyone in the world to perform tasks that used to be limited by geography. It sounds good for the world; is it good for the U.S.? Dave PattersonPardee Professor of Computer Science The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan DidionNew York: Knopf, 2005 This is a wonderful meditation on loss and grief, but also on a forty-year-long relationship between a man and a woman who spent hardly a day outside of each other's company. Charles FaulhaberProfessor, Spanish and PortugueseJames D. Life and FateVasilii Semenovich GrossmanNew York: Harper & Row, 1986, ©1985 This is the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century and one of the six or seven greatest works of fiction of the century in the Western canon. The Moral SenseJames Q. Fiona M. Why? G.
50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years. Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. The books we chose required some hard choices. We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45.
What the Weather Is Like on Other Moons and Planets On Earth, we get snow, rain, fog, hail, and sleet, and all of them are basically the same thing: water. For a true change of weather, you need to go to other worlds. Here's a tour of what to expect on a trip through our solar system. Mars: Dry Ice Snow Scientists have known for years that the polar caps of Mars are made of a combination of water ice and dry ice (or frozen carbon dioxide—the same stuff that makes fog when you dump it into a pot of water). Venus: Sulfuric Acid Rain Once thought to be our sister planet, Venus is, in actuality, a hellhole. Io: Sulfur Dioxide Snow Venus isn't the only hellhole in the solar system. Titan: Methane Rain Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and the pictures revealed by Cassini and the Huygens lander show a world that looks surprisingly Earthlike, with riverbeds, lakes, and clouds. Enceladus: Water and Ammonia Snow Enceladus is one of the most active moons of Saturn. Triton: Nitrogen and Methane Snow Pluto: Nitrogen, Methane, and Carbon Monoxide Snow
Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology Sheep Wool Insulation Comes To America Image credit Oregon Shepherd It is common in New Zealand and a luxury in the UK, but now sheep wool insulation has come to America, via Oregon Shepherd. There is a lot to love about this stuff; "This all-natural and inherently fire-retardant material is non-toxic, resists mold growth, is vermin resistant and is acoustically superior." After all, sheep know a thing or two about keeping warm. "Our Sheep Make it All Possible And We Take Pride in Keeping Them Well Cared For!" The company lists a number of significant benefits: The unique advantage of wool as an insulator is the NATURE of the fiber. It absorbs and desorbs moisture, it heats and cools as this process takes place. Installation by spraying I am always a bit worried about those additives, but Alex Wilson of BuildingGreen looked at the stuff last year and explains what they have done: Oregon Shepherd enhances wool's inherent fire-retardant properties with a borate additive. He concludes that " The product looks like a winner!"
Books that will induce a mindfuck Here is the list of books that will officially induce mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author. Those authors in bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list. And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction.
The 100 Best Books of All Time Many publishers have lists of 100 best books, defined by their own criteria. This article enumerates some lists of "100 best" books for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by Pringle. Lists[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
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