I got a Kindle for Christmas and I’ve ready quite a few books on it since. I also have the Kindle app for my iPhone and it’s handy that they allow me to sync my place between the two, so I can read on my iPhone when it’s dark and on my Kindle most of [...]
A Better Use of Your (Reading) Time
Feb 10, ’10
2:11 PM
How about a website that lays an interface over the avalanche of books that allows people to create playlists of books and articles for people looking for exposure to a particular topic.
While that alone would be useful (to me), how about taking it a step further. Why not expose Pandora-like functionality where I enter a [...]
Course Readers
Feb 10, ’10
2:02 PM
I’m in the middle of a year at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and for each course we get a very extensive course reader full of articles, cases and other stuff. This is in addition to or in place of a textbook.
Now, I might be an exception, but in how I learn and what I [...]
Been Prepared
Nov 22, ’06
10:06 PM
How about a book filled with acceptance speeches for all occasions? It could be entitled “Be Prepared” (or something similar) and could give you either the beginning spark for a speech of your own or the whole thing verbatim.
It could include speeches for when you win:
President of the United States of America
President of some [...]
Book of Spam Poetry
Aug 31, ’05
10:57 PM
Why not make a collection of poetry that’s haphazardly created in modern spam email as the authors try to circumvent filters. It can be quite interesting. Like the cut-ups that Burroughs did.
From an actual piece of spam received August 30, 2005 by “Al Zamora”:
“Eskimos will marry the pediatricians. Disney characters sabotage the
directories of [...]