Back in August I mentioned that I had started reading Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy by Rudy Rucker and have, since then, been quietly posting chapter notes from the book. A little more dense than I expected, which should become clear when reading my notes, but enjoyable still.

This is not the first time I posted chapter notes of a book while still reading it: back in 2004, for Urban Vancouver, I posted chapter notes of The Corporation by Joel Bakan. In this case, keeping with the permanently experimental nature of Just a Gwai Lo, thanks to a newer version of Drupal combined with the Views module, my chapter notes almost looks like a separate weblog about the book. Though conceivably I could have done it with a tag (like 'lifebox') an outline with a view made a little more sense, since I can use the tag for links to external articles about the book or photos of the book. Someone already has, in fact: at this writing, the only two photos tagged with 'lifebox' at Flickr are photos using the book to display bookmarking technique: 1, 2.