Time Unknown (Entries tagged as books)

Map is so much more than just the territory

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:33:25 +0300

I needed to learn about visual hierarchies for web design purposes and shocking the most illustrative guide to them seemed to be a map making book called Making Maps: a visual guide to map design for geographic information systems. Quite a mouthful, that. There are excerpts of the book available online for the curious and the needy.

Freakonomics

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:02:46 +0300

Quite often in non-fiction, especially in American popular science books, things get repeated over and over again. Freakonomics has interesting things in it but it repeats things annoyingly much.

No cdrom

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:00:14 +0300

I'm reading a book called Beginning Game Graphics on O'Reilly Safari. Normally the book comes with a cdrom, which is heavily referred to in the book but Safari does not offer the files and only one of them was found online.

Hyvä kirjastopäivä

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:13:12 +0300

Tänään oli hyvä kirjastopäivä. Kirjastosta löytyi kaikenmoista kivaa luettavaa, lukulistalta ja sen ulkopuolelta. Haaviin jäi mm. Malcolm Gladwellin Blink ja Robert D Haren Ilman omaatuntoa, molemmat tosin suomennettuna.

Kirjastoissakin varmaan on oma 'säänsä', systeemi jossa monet tekijät vaikuttavat siihen tuleeko hyvä kirjastopäivä, ja kenelle.