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"Steampunk is a relatively new style of writing, having only really existed as a true genre since the late 1980s, but the roots of steampunk can be traced back to the 19th century where Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and other authors were using steampunkish themes and their writing paved the way for the modern genre."

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"Write a book about building community the open source way... and write it with a community, the open source way. Meaning, open the text up, allow interested users to contribute, and see what happens.

Brilliant.

The book is entitled The Open Source Way: Creating and nurturing communities of contributors and you can access the current text here and the wiki for contributors here.

I caught up with Karsten Wade, who is leading the project, to learn more."

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"In this fourth post (parts one, two and three are found here) on the State of the Computer Book Market, we will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area."

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"The last chapter of Dooling's new work, Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ, considers what will happen to religious belief in the coming age of Higher Tech. It includes the opening chapters of the book of Genesis as if they had been rewritten by Microsoft contract lawyers ("The Source Code of Good and Evil you shall NOT view, for the day you view it you will surely die"), then tweaked by our coming open-source friendly robot overlords ("The one true God runs the universe in UNIX")."

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"Lindberg starts with the basics, explaining how copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets work. He then dives into the details that are most likely to be of interest to software developers: employment agreements, software licenses, copyleft, reverse engineering, and formalizing a project by creating a non-profit organization. No book could replace the advice of competent legal counsel, but reading Intellectual Property and Open Source from cover to cover will give the average free software developer a clear understanding of the legal terrain she will have to navigate as she creates, improves, or uses free software."

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"Neal Stephenson’s new novel, ANATHEM, germinated in 01999 when Danny Hillis asked him and several other contributors to sketch out their ideas of what the Millennium Clock might look like. Stephenson tossed off a quick sketch and promptly forgot about it. Five years later however, when he was between projects, the idea came back to him, and he began to explore the possibility of building a novel around it. ANATHEM is the result, and will be released on September 9th, 02008."

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"Princeton follows Yale, Oxford and the UC Berkeley in creating textbooks for the Kindle. In the United States, there are about 2,500 four-year universities so Amazon still has a long way to go."

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"A bill pending in Congress would require publishers to sell “unbundled” versions of the books — minus the pricey add-ons. Even more important, it would require publishers to reveal book prices in marketing material so that professors could choose less-expensive titles."

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