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Month: March 2006

  • Review: Phaic Tan

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    The Jetlag travel guide to Phaic Tan: Sunstroke on a Shoestring. This is the second Jetlag travel guide, coming on the heels of last year’s spot-on paradoy of an Eastern Europe guidebook: Molvania (link below). If you’ve ever read a travel guide in anticipation for a trip, you’ll appreciate the humor and the level of…

  • Review: 102 Minutes

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    102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. This book is a meticulous account of what happened inside the World Trade Center from the time the first plane struck until the second tower collapsed, 102 minutes later. From the authors’ note: Like the…

  • Review: Revolution in The Valley

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    Reading this book, I kept seeing a comparison to the early days of computing and the early days of punk rock. Andy Hertzfeld’s account of the design and engineering of the Macintosh computer certainly takes you back to early 1980’s California. I remember going to computer shows back then with my dad, who seemed to…