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Javascript Step-By-Step is an introductory Javascript book. It covers the very basics from Javascript syntax and usage to more advanced topics such as AJAX and JQuery. Unfortunately by covering so much it delivers little of use.  One of the key refrains is “however, learning how to do that is beyond the scope of this book”. Since […]

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Joshua on May 31st, 2008

I love the Seattle Public Library (SPL).  I’m not sure if Seattle just spends more money than Austin, but the library is so much better considering the cities have similar populations that I still use SPL more than Austin.  Being a few thousand miles away I mostly make use of SPL’s online databases.  Through a […]

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Joshua on April 14th, 2008

It was quite a while ago that I first heard about Librivox.org, but our upcoming trip (specifically the eight to ten hour drives in each direction) brought it back to my attention.  Librivox is a site that as they say “provides free audiobooks from the public domain.”  They do this in a marvelous way.  Once […]

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Joshua on March 26th, 2008

Take a look at this video of a pop-up alphabet book by Marion Bataille. It’s too bad Wesley would destroy this thing in under 60 seconds. Sure is cool though. via MAKE, Amazon: ABC3D  

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