{"id":348,"date":"2009-01-08T04:33:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/another-brief-roundup-cheap-ebooks-cool-indy-games-and-a-neat-graphics-library\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T04:33:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T19:33:18","slug":"another-brief-roundup-cheap-ebooks-cool-indy-games-and-a-neat-graphics-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/another-brief-roundup-cheap-ebooks-cool-indy-games-and-a-neat-graphics-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Another brief roundup: cheap ebooks, cool indy games, and a neat graphics library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"floatleft\">\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B001E0V112&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is another post mostly for myself so I don&#8217;t lose track of some interesting looking things.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nFirst up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedollarorbit.com\/\">cheap $1 ebooks from Orbit<\/a>.  It looks like this publisher is selling one ebook per month at $1, which is a deal that you can not pass up, even if the books are DRM-encumbered.  I&#8217;m seriously considering buying at least the first two books, The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks, and Ian M. Banks&#8217; Use of Weapons, even though I can&#8217;t DRMd books on my OLPC with FBReader.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nI highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316030570?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=daveva-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0316030570\">Use of Weapons by Ian M. Banks<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=daveva-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0316030570\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, but you should probably wait until next month to pick it up for $1.  I have the paperback sitting right in front of me and I&#8217;m still going to buy the ebook.  <\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>Next, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.processing.org\/\">an interesting looking programming language for visualization and graphics.<\/a>  I wish I had more time to look into stuff like that.  <\/p>\n<p><P><br \/>\nFinally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametunnel.com\/articles.php?id=705\">Game Tunnel&#8217;s list of 2008 best indy games<\/a> &#8211; I want to check these out when I have more time.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another post mostly for myself so I don&#8217;t lose track of some interesting looking things. First up, cheap $1 ebooks from Orbit. It looks like this publisher is selling one ebook per month at $1, which is a deal that you can not pass up, even if the books are DRM-encumbered. I&#8217;m seriously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15,14,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}