chipy bookclub
So the Chicago Python Group has started up a bookclub about a month ago. The first book we’re reading as a group is Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming which is fortunately...
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I mentioned Pascal’s Triangle in the previous post, and after typing in the Oz code decided to make a Pascal’s Triangle pretty printer in python. from sys import argv def pascal(n): if n == 1: return...
View ArticleOn Lateral Thinking
I recently checked out Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance after reading Kevin’s piece about how the book informed his practice of library cataloging. I am enjoying it a lot more this time...
View Articlebuddhism and spimes
The Dalai Lama has an op-ed on science and faith in yesterdays New York Times. There are some delightful descriptions of his encounters with science as a child, which I imagine are excerpts from his...
View Articleopenurl as microformat
The Search Author: John Battelle Year: 2005 Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover ISBN: 1591840880 Ok, so The Search is a great book so far…but I’m really just testing some local modifications I made to the...
View ArticleStandard
When I find the time I’m enjoying reading The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks which (so far) details a many-species galactic civilization in 4034 AD. The milieu includes an amorphous ancient species known...
View Article>js
So I’ve been dabbling with that four letter word at $work to create a hierarchical journal/volume/issue/article browser. Le rails and scriptaculous make it pretty easy indeed. I figured I’d be a good...
View ArticleJohn Price-Wilkin Interview
In case you missed it in your overstuffed RSS reader Jon Udell recently interviewed John Price-Wilkin who is coordinating the University of Michigan’s joint digitization project with Google. The...
View Articlemiscellaneous talk
If you are reading Everything is Miscellaneous like me then you might be interested in watching a talk David Weinberger did a few days ago at Google. I only wish I had more time to ingest all the good...
View Articlesicp reading
If you’ve ever harbored any interest in reading (or re-reading) The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs please consider joining some of the books4code folks as we work through the SICP...
View Articleterminology services sneak peak
I just saw Diane Vizine-Goetz demo OCLC’s Terminology Services at the CENDI/SKOS meeting and was excited to see various things out on the public web. For example, the LCSH concept “World Wide Web” is...
View ArticleThink of Things
Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite...
View ArticleHacking O’Reilly RDFa
I recently learned from Ivan Herman‘s blog that O’Reilly has begun publishing RDFa in their online catalog of books. So if you go and install the RDFa Highlight bookmarklet and then visit a page like...
View ArticleGoodReads microdata
I’m not sure how long it has been there, but I just happened to notice that GoodReads (the popular social networking site for book lovers to share what they are reading and have read) has implemented...
View ArticleVisualizing FRBR Worksets
The model behind the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) was published over 10 years ago, and has been simmering in library land ever since. Bit by bit, FRBR has been finding its...
View Articlestraw
By now I imagine you’ve heard the announcement that OCLC has started to make WorldCat bibliographic data available as openly licensed Linked Data. The availability of microdata and RDFa metadata in...
View Articlewatermark woodcut indigo octavo
You know how sometimes you can get ideas for a subject you are interested in by studying a different but related subject? So, strangely enough, I’ve found myself reading about paper conservation....
View ArticleNo Place to Hide
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald My rating: 4 of 5 stars I think Greenwald’s book is a must read if you have any interest in the Snowden...
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