Bit Rot

Bit Rot
Author: Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499465181
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These days, pictures, music, schoolwork, business documents, and all kinds of personal information are stored digitally. As the uses of computers, tablets, and smart phones expand, the loss of data due to user error, computer malfunctions, or deliberate theft has become a bigger problem than ever before. This title explores what is meant by bit rot and how it can affect users of technology. It also verses readers on the best ways to protect and store their data. Computer files, e-books, mp3s, and digital photographs aren't going away any time soon. This guide helps reader keep what matters to them safe and secure.

Bit Rot

Bit Rot
Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0399575790
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A thought-provoking, binge-worthy new collection of essays, stories, and musings from Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and it is a literary gem of the digital age. "Bit rot" is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Douglas Coupland writes, "Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones." Bit Rot the book is a fascinating meditation on the ways in which humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness. Coupland, just like the Internet, mixes forms to achieve his ends. Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life. The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland's established fanbase hungry for his observations about our world, and a revelation to new readers of his work. For almost three decades, his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction, his phrase-making, and his visual art. Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit, surprise, and delight. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix... you can't stop with just one.

Bit Rot

Bit Rot
Author: Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499465173
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These days, pictures, music, schoolwork, business documents, and all kinds of personal information are stored digitally. As the uses of computers, tablets, and smart phones expand, the loss of data due to user error, computer malfunctions, or deliberate theft has become a bigger problem than ever before. This title explores what is meant by bit rot and how it can affect users of technology. It also verses readers on the best ways to protect and store their data. Computer files, e-books, mp3s, and digital photographs aren't going away any time soon. This guide helps reader keep what matters to them safe and secure.

Bits & Pieces

Bits & Pieces
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1481444204
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Return to the zombie apocalypse wasteland that is the Rot & Ruin in this short story collection from Jonathan Maberry. Benny Imura’s zombie-infested adventures are well-chronicled in the gripping novels Rot & Ruin, Dust & Decay, Flesh & Bone, and Fire & Ash. But what else was happening while he was on his quest? Who were the others navigating the ravaged landscape full of zombies? Bits & Pieces fills in the gaps about what we know about First Night, surviving the plague, and traveling the land of Rot & Ruin. Eleven all-new short stories from Nix’s journal and eleven previously published stories, including “Dead & Gone” and “Tooth & Nail,” are now together and in print for the first time, along with the first-ever script for the Rot & Ruin comic books.

Rot, the Cutest in the World!

Rot, the Cutest in the World!
Author: Ben Clanton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-12-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 148146762X
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Rot, a mutant potato, enters a "Cutest in the World" contest but worries when he sees his competition.

Saturn's Children

Saturn's Children
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2008-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144063484X
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Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind to fulfill humanity’s dreams. And, having learned well from their long-dead masters, they’ve established a hierarchical society—one with humanoid aristo rulers at the top and slave-chipped workers at the bottom, performing the lowly tasks all androids were originally created to do. Designed as a concubine for a species that hasn’t existed for two hundred years, femmebot Freya Nakamichi-47—one of the last of her kind still functioning—accepts a job from a stranger to deliver a package from mercury to Mars. Unfortunately, she’s just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids desperate to retrieve the package’s contents…

Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Author: Edward M. Corrado
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0810887134
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Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, & Museums is designed for all types of information professionals who are interested in digital preservation. This is not a how-to book giving step-by-step processes for certain materials in a given kind of system. Instead, it addresses a broad group of resources that could be housed in any number of digital preservation systems. Finally, this book is about “Things (not technology; not how-to; not theory) I wish I had known before I got started.” /span Situating Digital Preservation, II. Management Aspects, III. Technology Aspects, and IV. Content-Related Aspects. spanThe book includes a foreword by Michael Lesk, eminent scholar and forerunner in digital librarianship and preservation. The book features an appendix providing additional information and resources for digital preservationists. Finally, there is a glossary to support a clear understanding of the terms presented in the book. Readers will find answers to questions that you might not have even known you had, leading to more successful digital preservation initiatives.

Binge

Binge
Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Random House Canada
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1039000525
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both it and I are equally alive and that there's no sliding scale of life. You're either alive, or you're not. Or you're dead or you're not. Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny. Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he calls "the voice of the people," inspired by the way we write about ourselves and our experiences in online forums. The characters, of course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. If you love Doug's fiction, this collection is like rain on the desert.

Quality of Life Through Quality of Information

Quality of Life Through Quality of Information
Author: European Federation for Medical Informatics
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 1284
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1614991014
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Medical informatics and electronic healthcare have many benefits to offer in terms of quality of life for patients, healthcare personnel, citizens and society in general. But evidence-based medicine needs quality information if it is to lead to quality of health and thus to quality of life. This book presents the full papers accepted for presentation at the MIE2012 conference, held in Pisa, Italy, in August 2012. The theme of the 2012 conference is ‘Quality of Life through Quality of Information’. As always, the conference provides a unique platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences among the actors and stakeholders of ICT supported healthcare. The book incorporates contributions related to the latest achievements in biomedical and health informatics in terms of major challenges such as interoperability, collaboration, coordination and patient-oriented healthcare at the most appropriate level of care. It also offers new perspectives for the future of biomedical and health Informatics, critical appraisal of strategies for user involvement, insights for design, deployment and the sustainable use of electronic health records, standards, social software, citizen centred e-health, and new challenges in rehabilitation and social care informatics. The topics presented are interdisciplinary in nature and will be of interest to a variety of professionals; physicians, nurses and other allied health providers, health informaticians, engineers, academics and representatives from industry and consultancy in the various fields.

The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad

The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad
Author: Linda Beech
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780590400237
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Everybody agrees that mold is just disgusting, until the class goes on a field trip inside a rotting log. They discover that all the dead-looking stuff is actually alive...and it's pretty neat after all. Join the class on their "rotten" adventure, and learn about how nature recycles through decomposition.