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09/22/2004 Archived Entry: "Laws of Cool"

Laws of Cool
Alan Liu's The Laws of Cool starts off like something written by Andrew Ross: Lots of info and name dropping within a single sentence or two, and the reader wonders, "why?" Ross' work shouts out: Research Assistants wrote this! I'll hold off judging Liu's book yet, but its information overload speaks to much of the problems he seems to direct towards the so-called information economy. At over 500 pages its first impression is too much...and why has he chosen the title "cool"? I'll interject commentary and response over the next few posts: travelling with Liu. Notes from the info super highway. Eh. Something of that sort.