Weekly Reader

2008 November 16

tags: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Fleck, Franz Kafka, Harper's Magazine, Ian Bogost, Mother Jones, Nick Montfort, Scott Esposito, TechCrunch, The Quarterly Conversation, The Wrecking Crew, Thomas Frank

by william

Mother Jones on twenty first century water wars.
Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost’s “Computing Makes the ‘Man’: Programmer Creativity and the Platform Technology of the Atari Video Computer System.”
Scott Esposito’s essay from The Quarterly Conversation on Kafka and Argentinian novelist Adolfo Bioy Casares.
Harper’s has a free excerpt from Thomas Frank’s new book The Wrecking Crew: How A Gang Of Right Wing Con Men Destroyed Washington & Made A Killing. I wish Harper’s would offer full text articles for subscribers like me; their pdfs keep crashing on me in multiple operating systems.
According to TechCrunch, Fleck, previously blogged about, is up for sale. I never did find a good use for it…

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