Get Your War On's tribute to Mr. Rogers.
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Andrew Stafford, who helped us make sense of Duchamp and put Aspen magazine online, tells me he has now produced a version of Richard Brautigan's Please Plant This Book, a collection of poems in the form of a collection of seed packets. Stafford's tasteful minimal animation provides a comfortable interface for browsing these contemplative and hopeful sprinklings of words.
Here's my current favorite.
Parsley:
I thank the energy, the gods and the
theater of history that brought
us here to this very moment with
this book in our hands, calling
like the future down a green and
starry hall
Despite the sense in which the book is not in my hands, the seed packets are colored slips, and there's very little green about the notebook computer I viewed the book with and am writing this on now, I'm glad Stafford has figured out a way to plant the book in this new context.
categories: x-syndicate
12:18:18 PM say what []
Nobody yet has made a killing selling blog yets (as far as I know), but they keep coming. Molly Holzschlag's Teach Yourself Blogging in 24 Hours is due out next month, and Wiley's Hungry Mind's division (formerly IDG) has decided to go ahead with Blogging for Dummies (to the dismay of Meg, whose We Blog was also published by Wiley).
Now Ben Hammersley has announced what may be considered the first of a new wave of advanced blogging books, to be called Weblog Hacks, coming from O'Reilly (which also published Essential Blogging). I think this is a great idea.
Note to self: all book names should be Amazon links...
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