69: The Executioner Originally uploaded by davidgeorgepearson A really nice cover design for a book I have never heard of.
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Book Cover: The Executioner
07-Sep-09Ponzi
30-Dec-08The news about Madoff and his 50 Billion dollar scam had me looking for a book I remember enjoying a couple of years ago – Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend. The biography is a fast paced and fun read, like most stories about grifters. The core of Ponzi’s story is how [...]
Sam Ita’s Pop-up Book
23-Oct-08Thanks again to BoingBoing for making my morning. I don’t care for the music, but the video does a nice job of showing part of the process involved with making a pop-up book. What I would like to see is a description of how Ita figures out what needs to be cut out in the [...]
Recent Reading
29-Mar-08A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder Another one of those books I picked up at the library, enjoyed reading for a couple of hundred pages, and then lost track of in one of my book piles. Enjoyable critique of today’s organizing and de-cluttering mania. Abrahamson and Freedman make some good points. Most interesting [...]
Book Greed
10-Oct-07Since we live close to the public library, it is easy for me to pop in and find a movie or two, some cds, and a few books several times each week. Tonight, on the way home, I made my third visit in 4 days. One of the books I brought home tonight is a [...]