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Drugs are Nice

A couple quick book reviews:

Drugs are nice: a post-punk memoir by Lisa Carver

“We each pave our own road to hell”, the desperate woman intoned. “Not me”, my father chuckled. “Too much work! I’m a hitchhiker on someone else’s road to hell”

Enjoyed it quite a bit. Can be deperessing at times but gives a window into [...]


Google Books Maps

One of the powers of full text, even if you don’t present it to users, is that you can build some interesting things on the data analysis. One such tool is mapping of place names in the works. I believe I’ve previously blogged it but one example is Gutenkarte which maps locations in texts available [...]