clew's reviews: a book logNotes & QueriesStencil Patterns, Sachio Yoshioka- May 28, 2008 This is one of a series of image books taken, I think, from the family business archives of a traditional Japanese textile firm. The printed book shows its images in several versions each, recolored or slightly altered; historical reproductions to...http://www.tenhand.com/clew/blog/archives/000790.html The Canon, Natalie Angier- May 25, 2008 'A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science' This seemed like a useful (maintain background generalist knowledge) but un-stressful (at a nonscientists' level) evening's book; it probably was useful, and it was eventually enjoyable, but very odd to read....http://www.tenhand.com/clew/blog/archives/000789.html Visualization for Information Retrieval, Jin Zhang- May 21, 2008 I was looking for examples of scientific visualization, which is a completely different thing. Information visualization is mind-maps, or nested folders (and how is that tree displayed), or the 'volcano' desktop, or a fisheye, or a lot of other thing...http://www.tenhand.com/clew/blog/archives/000788.html Cartoon- May 18, 2008 About Python, of course, and a response to xkcd's Lisp Cycles and Python, q.v....http://www.tenhand.com/clew/blog/archives/000787.html |