Category Archives: books

Visit the Hacks Booth at the Maker Faire

If you’re going out to the Maker Faire, be sure to drop by the Hacks booth and say howdy. I’ll be bringing some goodies related to a few of our hacks books, and there will be plenty of toys you … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Hacks @ LinuxWorld Boston

I’ll be giving a short talk and demonstration on Ubuntu Hacks today (Wednesday, April 5 at 12:30) at the O’Reilly LinuxWorld booth. Drop by and learn about getting Ubuntu running under colinux, going online with a Bluetooth connection and a … Continue reading

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Retro Gaming Hacks

I love the animated tile that the O’Reilly Network folks chose for Josh’s Pong/SDL hack.

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Badger Badger Flashlight Flashlight

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Halo 2 Modding Considered Harmful?

Stephen Cawood, author of Halo 2 Hacks (which I had the honor and pleasure of editing): “modding is not the same as cheating.”

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Holmes

Warren Ellis: “If only Conan Doyle had had the freedom to have Watson call Holmes a bastard every now and then.”

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Perky Pat Watch

As of this writing, the number of people who’ve made a Perky Pat+The Sims connection fills only two pages on Google. I wonder if it will be bigger when I come back to this post in a few months…

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All Things New York Day at Borders Columbus Circle

I’ll be doing some Wi-Fi show and tell at the All Things New York Day celebration at the Columbus Circle Borders Store. Looks like I’ll be hanging around with a Mac, a PC, a Zaurus, and a Pocket PC around … Continue reading

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Star of Rory’s Story

Cool–my namesake is the star of a short story that Rory just posted.

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"Bookscan: for better, or worse?"

Dave Taylor: “All of my author friends are familiar with a company called bookscan, that purports to offer unbiased quantified data about book sales throughout all outlets. But do they?”

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