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Crooked Timber » » War on Science Watch — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:53:01 +0000

[...] Hey, someone should write a book about this sort of thing. Maybe give away a companion to the book for good measure. (Admittedly, this report may be premature – the report about the report, that is. The actual nature article title ends with a question mark, “Is the US hurricane report being quashed?”) posted on Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 at 8:52 pm Post a comment [...]

By: SamChevre

SamChevre — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:44:31 +0000

My suggestion for a future book:

Comments on Timothy Burke’s reflections on the 2004 election and Doug Muder’s “Red Family, Blue Family.”

Or, in other words—how should the government relate to actually-existing communities?

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:58:13 +0000

There’s an outtake reel with lots of humorous footage of us composing drafts containing ludicrous but winsome falsehoods and sundry logical howlers. Then Jackie Chan mugs for the camera.

In all sober seriousness, the book is the CT discussion with some of the posts revised – by the authors or by me, the editor. It’s neater and cleaner.

By: otto

otto — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:52:04 +0000

Is the book exactly the same as the CT discussion? or does it have what the DVD business calls extras?

By: Delicious Pundit

Delicious Pundit — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:24:43 +0000

Fafblog’s Guide To Pies.

By: Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:24:42 +0000

Excellent!

There’s something amusing in seeing the trademark Holbonic prose in a book catalog being used to describe the whole line of books.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:14:11 +0000

Congratulations, John. It looks nice. With luck this can be as cool as those Boston Review books, but more accessable (in the sense of get a hold of, not of understand.)

By: JRoth

JRoth — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:05:22 +0000

I know that some would whisper of insider-ism and preferential treatment, but surely any serious effort to publish “good blog material” would have to include what Brad DeLong has called “The Best Weblog Post Ever.” I suppose it’s a little on the short side for book treatment, but a bibliography of subsequent pony references should bulk it up into OED proportions.

By: Daniel Nexon

Daniel Nexon — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:50:25 +0000

You could easily milk an anthology out of Tim Burke’s solo efforts.

By: Contradictory Ben

Contradictory Ben — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:42:22 +0000

I applaud this. But why only PDF? Why not also marked up with a more machine reading, web friendly, user-stylizable digital format such as HTML, especially when it comes to “nice critical editions of public domain works”? (Or possibly DocBook or TEI.)

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:27:44 +0000

I think “The Glassbead Game” is such a wonderful joke I’m willing to transvalue those other more questionable values into something sounder, from a public intellectual standpoint. (And I do hope this whole venture doesn’t end with me drowning in a lake. That would be a terrible let-down.)

By: tom s.

tom s. — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:25:12 +0000

“I like connotations of transparency and combinatoric possibility.” – but not, I hope, the connotations of otherworldliness, remoteness, and irrelevancy?

Actually, it sounds like a great idea. Congratulations.