Books

A few days ago, fantasy author Terry Pratchett announced some sad news on Josh Kirby's blog (in a post titled "An Embuggerance"). Apparently he has been diagnosed with a rare, early onset form of Alzheimer's....

Dave Thomas just announced a new Pragmatic Bookshelf series called Pragmatic Fridays. I have no idea what inspired the name "Friday" in this context, but a Pragmatic Friday is a short (60 - 100 pages), low-cost ($7.50 - $10), and focussed book on a specific topic. The books are available for download in PDF form only, and as with all downloadable Pragmatic Bookshelf titles, they contain no DRM....

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy movie (which I didn't care for all that much, as I previously wrote), prompted me to pick up a copy of "Don't Panic", Neil Gaiman's guide to the guide....

The upcoming Make: magazine from O'Reilly sounds very interesting. It is published as a "mook", a magazine / book hybrid, and covers a wide array of technology and what people can do with it. It sounds like the focus will be on concrete consumer projects, including things like kite aereal photography, home entertainment, websites, etc. This sounds like the ultimate geek magazine and I'm curious about the first edition....

Out of curiosity I just did a Google search for "digitalhobbit" to find any references to my site (not that I really expected any...). One of the links that was returned among the top search results was this one....