The idea of the publisher In Pictures is to provide basic computer litterature with plenty of pictures. Their primary audience is the beginner in the area.
They have now released 22 computer books under a Creative Commons Att-NC-ND 2.5 license.
The library includes books on software such as Windows XP, Mac OS X Tiger, Microsoft office, Openoffice.org, Dreamweaver 8 and Photoshop. In addition to programming basics such as MySQL, PHP and PERL.
After procrastinating and reading them online for the better part of a year I bought them. They have now arrived:
 
Jorge Cham’s brilliant comic strip about PhD studies have been collected in the two albums “Piled Higher and Deeper: A graduate student comic strip collection” and “Piled Higher and Deeper Chapter 2: Life is tough and then you graduate” They are an absolute necessary part of the required reading for PhD students (or those considering the path). With great sections like “What is…the thesis?“, “Grad Motivation Graphs“, “Newton’s Three Laws of Graduation” and “Writing” the strip captures what writing a dissertation can be like.
Most jobs have built in annoyances – and most often its customers! These are usually tolerated as they are considered part of the territory but sometimes the urge to work these annoyances out becomes too great…
One such occurance concerns the librarian Barbara McCutcheon who will now, with the help of the local police, have people arrested for not returning library books. This article quotes her as saying: “I’m just not going to take it anymore. I want my books back and I want them now,” and “I will track people down. You can run but you can’t hide”.
This may seem a harsh way to go but the police seem to support this action: “If Barbara has books out that are not returned, then we will make reports and begin to seek arrest warrants. We will start arresting people…”
The library is in Texas – why is this not surprising?
(via Biblioteksrelaterat)