destinyland writes "Amazon just doubled the reported battery life for their Kindle digital readers — but they did it by cutting the estimated daily usage in half. Monday Amazon's competitor Barnes and Noble released a new touch-screen version of their ...

kkleiner writes "The University of Chicago's new $81 million Joe and Rika Mansueto Library is being referred to as the library of the future. You enter the library and find there are hardly any books, just a large reading room ...

jrepin writes "In new free book the authors of twenty-five open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program's major components? How do they interact? And what did their builders learn during their development? ...

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from CNN: "As further proof of how digital media dominate today's entertainment, Amazon announced Thursday that its customers now buy more e-books for its Kindle device than all print books — hardcover and paperback ...

lee1 writes "Newt Gingrich has a written 156 book reviews on Amazon, at one point becoming ranked in the site's top 500 list. Most of the books are cheesy political thrillers, but the newly announced presidential candidate is also trying to ...

'Cause you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaur-- no? Wrong Alice? Woopsie doopsie. This is a shot from 'Alice of Magic World', an Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant in Tokyo they should have just named 'Alice in ...

MassDosage writes "Apache JMeter written by Emily H. Halili is very much an introductory guide to using Apache's open source JMeter testing tool. Unfortunately a book that should have been good fodder to whet the appetites of testers is spoiled ...

The downside of not having ones base of children's stories crafted and maintained by trained storytime engineers from the Disney Corporation has reared its warty head in Russia and Ukraine. A map of purportedly Russian folktale characters' haunts has drawn ...

​Which means he has finally, officially finished A Dance with Dragons. Which means it should still come out on July 12th, as promised. Which means we can all start dancing. Read the original here: George R.R. Martin Is Done Dancing

Happy, happy news rang out in the world of fantasy literature Wednesday when George R. R. Martin finally completed A Dance with Dragons, the long-awaited fifth installment in his A Song of Ice and Fire cycle. Martin made the announcement indirectly ...

If you’re a diehard fan of Harry Potter or only casually enjoy the movies you need to watch this trailer. It’s a teaser, too short and quick, but what it teases is epic! This flick is capping off an impressive ...

​Cats have long been associated with the weird and the creepy, and have received a bit of a bad rap for it. Maybe it's the way they leave little "presents" in the form of the remains of small, dead ...

An anonymous reader writes "Agile Development & Business Goals: The Six Week Solution has scrum-like elements, fairly rapid iterations, automated testing, and some other things that you have come to rely on to make your Agile methodology work. But the ...

vellorean writes "I have been reading Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook by Sarath Lakshman, published by Packt, for a while. While most people I know learn shell scripts themselves, I was looking to refresh my concepts a little as well as have a reference lying ...

destinyland writes "The Association of American Publishers revealed today that e-book sales have tripled in the last year. Sixteen publishers reported that in February e-book sales totaled more than $90.3 million, a 202.3% increase over e-book sales in February of ...

Nerd culture has become a real hot commodity lately. Our favorite comics books are being adapted for both film and television. Our favorite sci-fi flicks are referenced in countless televisions shows. They’re even making movies about us and the nerdy things we ...

arcticstoat writes "A few net-speak acronyms such as LOL and OMG were entered to the Oxford English Dictionary last month, but could we ever see l33t-speak (complete with numbers) or ROFLcopters in the OED? In this interview with OED principal ...

​Sir Terry Pratchett is a god - a small one, at least. He's created whole worlds and filled them with people, and managed to draw in millions of readers with his wonderful plots, fascinating characters, and beautiful story endings. ...

Very soon Craig Gillespie will be signed as director for the film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith‘s classic zombie-killing romance, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The novel, if you’re unaware,  is an integration of martial arts intense action scenes and hordes of ...

HansonMB writes "Facing the likelihood of state budget cuts that would eliminate $15 million for library and reading programs – and, apparently, create a future in which people no longer read things on paper – the city of Newport Beach ...

f1vlad writes "Philologists have added popular internet abbreviations to the one hundred twenty-six year-old Oxford English Dictionary. Among these are the popular OMG, LOL, and FYI. 'Dictionary compilers said that although the terms are associated with modern electronic communications, some ...

The first Chronicles of Narnia tale with a film adaptation, The Lion, the With and the Wardrobe was an enjoyable children’s adventure (with strong Christian overtones). The second, Prince Caspian, was a thrilling adventure with epic battles not seen since ...

14erCleaner writes "US Circuit Judge Denny Chin has rejected a $125 million settlement between Google Books and the author's guild that would have allowed Google to publish all out-of-work fiction online. Chin has previously ruled more favorably on this case." ...

​Guess I should have clarified things a bit more, huh? This weekend's contest was kind of a mess in that somehow, many people got so excited about making naughty children's book titles that they forgot the whole "sci-fi and fantasy" ...

CheerfulMacFanboy writes "CNET quotes Lendle co-founder Jeff Croft: 'They [Amazon] shut the API access off, and without it, our site is mostly useless. So, we went ahead and pulled it down. Could we build a lending site without their API? ...

Last week we discussed an IT book author's adventures in trying to self-publish. Now, an anonymous reader points out an article examining another perspective: "Barry Eisler, a NY Times best-selling author of various thriller novels, has just turned down a $500,000 ...

​This weekend's contest was inspired by the earlier Daily List, of course (and its predecessor). We've talked about books that you can and should give to young nerds in order to set them firmly on the path of nerdery, but ...

An anonymous reader writes "Author Keir Thomas has blogged about his experiences self-publishing a computing book. Quoting: 'I knew that publicizing the book would be difficult so I hit upon an idea: Why not give away the eBook (PDF) version? ...

It’s the end. For many fans, myself included, it’s the end of a huge chunk of a lifetime. I read the first Harry Potter book when I was in eighth grade and now, when I’m 24, the final movie based ...

That is all.Oh, this is a new trailer. But that is all.OH WAIT THERE MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT OF A BOOB IN THE TRAILER, FOR LIKE A HALF-SECOND. But seriously, that is all.Thanks to brainneek for the tip. (That ...

The people at the Taiwan CG news organization NMA cover the announcement of the release date of A Dance with Dragons, the long-awaited book in George R.R. Martin's fantasy series A Song of Fire and Ice. The only thing I ...

​Stephen King is writing another Dark Tower book. Specifically, about this (from his blog):At some point, while worrying over the copyedited manuscript of the next book (11/22/63, out November 8th), I started thinking--and dreaming--about Mid-World again. The major story of ...

theodp writes "A newly-surfaced Microsoft patent application describes methods of secretly matching up individuals whose shared 'fringe interests' might be 'a source of shame or embarrassment' to them should they become known to society-at-large. No, not sexual preferences. A much ...

Hugh Pickens writes writes "Joe Konrath has an interesting interview with independent writer John Locke who currently holds the coveted #1 spot in the Amazon Top 100 and has sold just over 350,000 downloads on Kindle of his 99 cent ...

Lil'wombat writes "George RR Martin has completed his long awaited conclusion to the A Song of Ice and Fire series. A Dance with Dragons will be published on July 12, 2011. Let the celebrations begin! And everyone was worried that ...