If your baby has already mastered HTML coding, it’s time to move on to CSS, with this 16 page board book that will put your kid on the road to a tech job before he/she knows how to use a toilet.
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Happy New Year, fans of Westeros! George R.R. Martin has shared a sample chapter from the next book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter. This fan is thrilled to get any piece of the book so soon after the July 2011 release of A Dance With Dragons. It was a brutal 5+ year wait between books four and five. Let’s hope book six arrives sooner. In the meantime, you can enjoy the excerpt here. And no, you shouldn’t click if you’re not caught up.
(via io9)
I’ve admired the cover to The Neverending Story since I first watched the movie. It was ornate, delicate, and lovely. I never owned a copy of it, but thanks to a creative Etsy seller, I can get a similar design to cover my eReader. This makes any eBook feel like a fairy tale. It can fit everything from a Kindle to an iPad.
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Over in the UK, artist Jamie Smart has been illustrating Where’s Waldo-style pictures for a new magazine called Doctor Who Monster Invasion. The drawings have proven so popular that a collection has been compiled into a book.
Each of the pictures features the Time Lord and his friends mixed into a crowd of hundreds of alien figures. The only problem is that the book might be tough to find in the states at the moment, and it is currently sold out on Amazon UK at £5.39 (or about $8.37)—though more stock is expected to arrive soon.
Check out some pics of the interior pages after the break (click to enlarge)
The training of your young needling continues with Introductory Calculus For Infants.
Life is all arithmetic. We try to add to our incomes, subtract from our waistlines, divide our time, and for a while, we avoid multiplying. (Lest we not secure a career that adds to our income!) But a time comes when we want to be fruitful and multiply. We want to add to the legion of geeks.
Then we become the parent that says, “If I’ve told you n times, I’ve told you n + 1 times… clean your room or you won’t get to eat any of the first derivative of a cow tonight!”* This book is for the parents of future mathletes. It’s the storybook adventure of two friends as they discover the wonders of calculus. Who knows, you might even learn something yourself, parental unit!
Toss in How To Speak Wookiee, HTML For Babies, That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore: A Zombie Tale and the My Little Geek ABC book and your child’s education will be complete.
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Fueled by a fascination with the books appearing in Skyrim, the author of capane.us began to conduct late night break-ins of houses in the game just to read them. After being chided by the local guards and paying bounties, he decided to find a way to obtain the narratives for perusal outside of the virtual world.
After discovering that Skyrim stored the books in plain text, he pasted the stories text into separate documents, complete with headings, a table of contents and a cover, and offered them online for Kindle and Nook devices. Click here to visit the download page.
(via The Verge)
Doctors find the darnedest things in x-rays. They find so many weird objects that a few MDs recently released a book on the topic: Stuck Up: 100 Objects Inserted and Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be. One of the many examples in the book that will make you cringe is a Buzz Lightyear action figure that was stuffed up to infinity and beyond. Let’s hope the other toys weren’t sent in on a rescue mission. And no, I don’t want to know how it was extracted.
(via TMZ)
We first mentioned these Portal-themed bookends when they were just a one-off concept from some guy with a CNC machine, but ThinkGeek got a hold of ‘em and now they are ready for your bookshelf! Assuming you still read paper books!
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was published nearly 75 years ago. It might not be a long time if you’re an Elf, but for humans, it’s significant. HarperCollins is releasing a special book, The Art of The Hobbit, to mark the occasion. While they were preparing materials for inclusion, they found 110 drawings in Tolkien’s papers—around two dozen of which had never been published. Yeah, that’s as big as it sounds. More of these drawings are available after the break for the internet to drool over. I’ll be over here in my puddle (of drool).
