.: Above The Aether :.

A fan site for David Foster Wallace, writer of Infinite Jest, is running a motivational poster contest.  It is quite funny if you’ve read the book (or most of the book as I have…1090 pages…Jesus Christ).
May you never “hear the squeak”.
Enjoy.
- Dave

I just saw the film adaptation of John Krakauer’s book,Into the Wild and enjoyed it.
As with many film adaptations, it does not follow the story verbatim, but it does a good job of capturing the spirit of the book. The story follows Christopher McCandless on his journey into the wilderness of Alaska.
— MOVIE & [...]

According to the blog readability test, this site is readable at the elementary school level.
Somehow, I believe them.
-Dave

Enter the title and author into this search and the online book database will compare what other readers (who have read your book) have also enjoyed. Give it a whirl. It’s pretty neat.
Link (via Lifehacker)

The purpose of this brilliant marketing campaign by the Wyoming Libraries is to promote their searchable online Chilton automotive database (a useful thing of you happen to be the handy type who knows the difference between a distributor cap and a baseball cap).
According to their site:
Mudflap girl stickers meant to be put on vehicles, were [...]

I started reading The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert, last week. It’s been a while since I purposefully slowed down my reading and forced myself to savor a book because I liked it so much. The book follows Eustace Conway, a man who walked into the woods as a young man [...]

There has been some debate on whether or not Jack Kerouac truly wrote the original draft of One the Road in three weeks while hopped up on Benzedrine and coffee. There isn’t any debate that he used several very long continuous scrolls of tracing paper that he taped together to measure a total of [...]

Writer, Madeleine L’Engle, died this past Thursday. I have very fond memories of reading her books as a child and thinking they were amazingly creative and inspiring.
From the New York Times
Her works — poetry, plays, autobiography and books on prayer — were deeply, quixotically personal. But it was in her vivid children’s characters [...]

The fathers of Wintermute, Cookie Monster and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are interviewed at the Onion’s AV Club this month.
Here are links to their specific interviews:  William Gibson, Frank Oz and Joss Whedon
Good stuff.  Enjoy.
-Dave

There is a very entertaining short story by Terry Bisson, called “They’re made out of meat.”  It’s a one-page science fiction story about two aliens talking about humans in a very funny way.
“Oh, there’s a brain all right. It’s just that the brain is made out of meat! That’s what I’ve been trying to tell [...]