Pete Hindle

I picked this book up because it has an amazing cover by Don Maitz, which you can see here on his website. I love the look of older SF book covers, which put to shame the cleanly designed lines of more modern books. Sadly, the plot wasn’t great – one of those confusing 1970s plots [...]

This book starts with a potted history of Wikipedia, beginning at it’s predecessor Nupedia, and then follows the development of the site until sometime in mid-2008, when the book was published. As an effort to keep up with both change and the technology, a wiki was set up to act as an afterword. Weirdly, although [...]

Answer: the opportunity to make a catalogue of your books and then graph the costs of them! I know I’ve done this before, but it never fails to make me happy! Of course, this graph doesn’t show all my books – I’m still packing them, a process which takes slightly longer when you decide to [...]

Confederacy of Dunces is a book from the late 1960’s, set in New Orleans. I first heard of it from the writer/speaker/internet guy Merlin Mann, who uses a line from it as his Twitter ‘handle’, differentiating his presence on the mighty microblogging service from his more professional website, 43folders.com. As I said in my last [...]

Now that the scary ’100th post’ is out of the way, this seems like a good time to talk about the program of reading I’m undertaking this summer. For my coursework, I’m slogging through what seems to be an unending amount of PDF’s and websites which suck all the joy out of reading. I even [...]

I’m doing a lot of reading for the course at the moment. I’ve been reading a lot of different books that tie into my main project, and these academic books aren’t always a gripping read. Sometimes I find that they aren’t even that relevant to my subject, they just have all the correct buzzwords on [...]

Leo P. Kelley’s Mythmaster, originally uploaded by Pete Hindle. I wrote a semi-review of this book over on Flickr, because I stuffed it into the frame of a friends bike and I know he likes Flickr. I guess he’ll see it in a few days time, and then work out where the book comes from. [...]