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How an O’Reilly animal is born [The More You Know]

One of the more interesting and endearing branding trends in book publishing is the O’Reilly animal. Those intricately drawn creatures staring up at you from the cover of a tech manual have become a staple of the geek world, but how are the animals chosen and how are they created?

5May2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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Full book online: LSD - My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann [IHC Book Club]

In continuing our celebration of the life of Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, the inventor of LSD, we have his classic book, LSD - My Problem Child online for free.

30Apr2008 | cranberryzero | 3 comments | Continued
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You like girls? You like corpses? Then Girls & Corpses magazine is for you [Magazines)

Girls & Corpses magazine is described by its creators as a cross between Maxim and Dawn of the Dead. In an era where no one dares to venture into print, G & C is attempting to bring the two things most guys love into one sleek printed package– hot chicks and creepy, sick shit.

13Apr2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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50’s Spanish sci-fi pulp novel art [Art]

Sci fi and fantasy book cover art is certainly in a league of its own, but it’s always cool to see how other cultures other than US or Canadian English speaking artists interpret the weird and wonderful stories.  Trying to come up with an illustration for a book cover is tough– you have to not […]

4Apr2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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Book review: Focus on Hallucinogens [IHC Book Club]

Focus on Hallucinogens is from 1991 and is currently out of print, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t learn a thing or two. 1991 was during the period of time when The War on Drugs was still going strong and it was every adult’s duty to make sure that kids didn’t learn about the evils of drugs. So along comes this book, where 9-year olds are taught all about LSD, neurons and even shamans. Radical.

1Apr2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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Allen Finsburg reads “Howl” [IHC Book Club]

The legendary stuffed dolphin, Allen Finsburg reads from his classic poem, “Howl”.

27Mar2008 | cranberryzero | 1 comment | Continued
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What a Choose Your Own Adventure book looks like as a directed graph [IHC Book Club]

This is a one of those finds that I love because with as many Choose Your Own Adventure books I read as a kid, I’ve always wondered what they looked like plotted out as a graph, showing all the possible paths.  Only I never really bothered to do it.  But author Sean Regan, in planning […]

9Mar2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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How to have sex in cars, the Haynes manual [IHC Book Club]

From Haynes, the people who have a manual on every nook and cranny of every car ever produced comes the definitive manual on bumping uglies in the back of a sedan. With helpful illustrations in case your imagination isn’t up to speed.

2Mar2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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The Mecha Manga Bible Heroes [IHC Book Club]

If you’re like most people, when you think of the Bible, the first thing you think is “Well, but it just doesn’t have enough Manga or giant robots in it”. And that, children, is why the Mecha Manga Bible is for you.

19Feb2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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Race Types from 1906 [Pic]

From Flickr:
“I was going through my Great Grandmother’s old school books, and found this “Race Types” plate in Maury’s New Complete Geography, copyright 1906.
Almost any viewpoint from the past will be interesting for the contrast to current thought, and race issues especially so. In this case, it’s interesting who they chose to highlight as a […]

30Jan2008 | cbz | 0 comments | Continued
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Ten Best Hunter S. Thompson Quotes [Politics Suck]

Here’s ten of the best quotes from the master and father of Gonzo journalism. There are so many to choose from, right up to his death, but here’s ten to help start your week in a cynical fashion.
Helpless and Irresponsible
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter […]

14Jan2008 | cbz | 19 comments | Continued
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Perry Bible Fellowship in a book– Buy it, dammit!

You won’t catch a whole lot of blatant product plugs on here, but this is an exception. The Perry Bible Fellowship, one of the funniest, most twisted and most beautifully drawn webcomic comic ever has just come out in a hardback compilation published by Dark Horse called The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of […]

6Jan2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued
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Better Living Through Victorian Chemistry

People often feel a certain amount of nostalgia regarding the Victorian period of western history. It was a simpler time, with no cell phones, traffic jams, or corporate mission statements to cloud men’s thoughts. Men were the breadwinners of the family, and women took care of the house and children. There was little else in […]

22Dec2007 | delsydsoftware | 0 comments | Continued