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Everything Bad Is Good for You, T.V., Reading and Video Games

by natecooper | Dec 16, 2008 | books, culture, digital media, internet, movies, nate, technology, television

Been doing a fair amount of offline reading so haven’t had as much to write about. Read Everything Bad Is Good for You and was pretty impressed. The book starts as almost a defense of video games as a complex medium, despite it’s being maligned at best as...

Where the Wild Things Are

by natecooper | Oct 22, 2008 | books, cool, movies

Kind of a little excited by seeing this pic.

‘Atlas of the Real World’

by natecooper | Oct 7, 2008 | books, cities, cool, culture, world

John King reviews ‘Atlas of the Real World’ concluding it puts us in our place

Book Poetry

by natecooper | Oct 5, 2008 | aesthetics, art, books, cool

Fascinating project by Nina Katchadourian hundreds more photos on her site. I like the idea making poetry out of book spines. (via A Cup of Jo)

What’s Worth Collecting?

by natecooper | Oct 3, 2008 | books, culture, digital media

The NY Public Library Blog has an interesting article on compulsive collecting. What medias are worth collecting? How much is too much? Interesting thoughts from a librarian + what to do about VHS. From the article: “Several years ago, the New York Public...