“Eyetracking Web Usability” by Nielsen & Pernice
If you’re a web designer, then you really owe it to yourself to at least check this book out from the local library and read it once. The list price of $70+ dollars is a little more than I would want to spend, but if you can find a good deal, I think it’s worth [...]
“Merchants of Culture” by John B. Thompson
This book discusses the history, current state, and possible future of trade publishing in the US and UK. This book does not discuss at length academic or STM publishing—he does that in other books—but instead focuses on mass-market fiction and non-fiction publishing. If you work in the industry, there’s not too much here that [...]
“Metamagical Themas” by Douglas Hofstadter
This book (revised again in 1996) is a collection of the columns Douglas Hofstadter wrote for Scientific American in 1981–83. The columns are grouped by topic and each is followed by a lengthy postscript that expands on the original column. He explores topics from self-referentiality to Rubic’s Cubes, from Lisp atoms to the nature of cognition. [...]
Who am I?
Profiles
Affiliations
- Editors' Association of Canada Member; Chair of IT Committee for Prairie Provinces Branch
- International Abstract Games Organization (IAGO) Chair of Standards and Technical Committee
- Super Duper Games (SDG) Creator and maintainer
- Temeron/Detselig Editor and typesetter
