So, starting in February, and into this last week, I’ve been traveling, presenting, and not necessarily hitting this up proper. So we’re going to hit up some highlights from today’s 250 item update to the New Item RSS feed. Yeah… that’s a lot.
So first, we’ve got this Artists of the 20th Century series of DVDs, which covers everything from Warhol to Dali to Francis Bacon. Yeah: Bacon. These DVDs take a look at one particular person, their life, their work, but also function as slideshows of their work. Even if they aren’t the best made series on the planet, it is a lot easier than fishing around the Internet or traveling to where they’re kept to see them in person.
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Next is a book called Wikipedia Revolution, which examines how the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the world is maintained by common folk and self regulated. I’ll be the first to admit that I approach Wikipedia information with a skeptical eye, but I’ll also admit that I start a lot of research there to better form the searches I’m about to do in article databases, or to check referenced articles to see if they’re usable. It is really a revolutionary product of the Internet, truly unique in its vision and scope, and this book does a great job researching some of the impact it has had.
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AHHH !! Dental implants! You know, I was perusing the list of items, and a lot of them seem to be focused on terrorism. This right here is real terror. In Asbjorn Jokstad’s Osseointegration and Dental Implants you can learn all about putting scary things in your mouth. As someone who had a dentist put in fillings, braces, permanent retainers, and then take out the fillings to replace them with prettier ones, I can attest to this: I live in fear of that chair. My sympathy to those enduring dental implants, and my salute to those of you brave enough to enter the dental profession. I do not hold against you what you must do to keep these teeth shining.
… but seriously… GAHH…
I had a front implant done, and although it took nearly six months, and as many thousands of dollars, the results are incredible. You can’t tell the implant from a real tooth. Of course, I haven’t tried to go through airport security…having titanium in your bone makes for a serious worry