In a recent article in The Atlantic, Nick Carr suggests that our increasing reliance on web technologies like Google may actually be “making us stupid,” arguing that “As we use…'intellectual technologies'…we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.” Are we losing our ability to think instead of simply process? …More

When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is recreated in the Net's image. It injects the medium's content with hyperlinks, blinking ads, and other digital gewgaws, and it surrounds the content with the content of other media it has…

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity'and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation'and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.

It looked clunky, yet it could be at home on someones desk. Instead of puzzling over bits of hardware or typing up punch cards to feed into someone elses mainframe, Apple owners faced only the hurdle of a cryptic blinking cursor in the upper…

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Rands takes apart a pile of different notebooks looking for the best parts of each.

The idea had never occurred to me… writing for myself rather than for Ms. Ockerman, the 3rd grade teacher. Every five years, I go back and reread portions of that journal, looking for the same transition. I start the journal and…

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The complete PDF of Corrie Haffly's book “The Photoshop Anthology” is available to download for free for 30 days. The book teaches Photoshop for web design, and contains 101 problems and solutions.

It’s brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web design project. If you’ve ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style…

This book of articles on modern graphics programming techniques, particularly for games, has just been released freely online. An invaluable resource for both beginners and experienced hands in games and graphics programming.

The first effects of fast, programmable GPUs are subtle. Previously difficult graphics problems become much more tractable through the application of one thousand-fold performance increases. Offline rendering techniques become more practical…

While the quality of its technical books declines, O'Reilly has found a new source of income: The corporate shill. The latest book from O'Reilly Media is a book called Subject to Change, ostensibly covering innovative business processes. The problem? It's nothing more than a vapid, boring, 170-page ad for the authors' consulting business.

It makes my stomach turn to see that one of my heroes and idols — Tim O'Reilly — personally approved of Subject to Change and called it a “terrific book” on the inside cover. (However, there were many quotes…

If you need something to store books anyway, why not choose something that makes a statement or serves two purposes like a bookcase that doubles as a secret door or even a bed? Some of these shelving systems are virtually invisible while others are virtual works of art in their own right.

Bookcase Door to Hidden Room: We’ve all seen it in the movies: you pull the book from the shelf and the mysterious door opens into a secret room to the side. Well, this isn’t a mansion in a murder mystery - just…

Does “information want to be free”, or do artists have the right to eat? A great discussion by Trigger Happy author Steven Poole on intellectual property, writers and the internet.

The lesson from this is that change should not be feared. Grab the internet generation with both hands and use them to your advantage, rather than locking your doors and cowering in the corner with your old business model pressed tightly to your…

The main idea of this post is to provide you with some creative, expressive and appealing book covers. You won't like all of them, but you'll definitely find some designs which are worth pondering upon.

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If youre in search of books on the topic of web design to expand or start up your book collection, heres 20 web design books worth considering.

Designing websites involves more than just the design itself, it’s also about managing and presenting information to the client. Communicating Design offers tips on presenting designs and developing usability tests, amongst other things.

Great article, listing 25 books that you must have to become a great web designer. Going all the way from typography, CSS/XHTML, design, color, usability, logos, Javascript and more.

If you have ever been curious as to how the top blogs came to be, then this book is for you. The interviews reveal a lot of interesting information about the top blogs and their authors. I have to say though, that a lot of the top blogs’…

Dive Into Python is a free online hands-on guide to the Python language. Each chapter starts with a real complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together again in a summary at the end.
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