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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		The History of Carter Beats The Devil. Posted on 10/23/2002. A bit back I wrote about the novel Carter Beats the Devil, which I had a particular soft spot since it was largely set in Oakland, my new home at the time. Well, Powell's offers this reminiscence from Glen David Gold, the author, on inspiration for the book, largely from Oakland's sad sack, also-ran history. 1 comment so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "First thoughts on Smart Mobs." Next entry: "Smart Mobs mini-blog: Swarming" Comments: COMMENT #1 Thanks for linking to that. I met Gold briefly when he lived here. He impressed me even before I'd read any of his writing. I haven't had a chance to read "Carter Beats the Devil" yet, but I intend to. And getting to the Oakland History Room would be a good idea too. Posted by Spidra Webster @ 10/25/2002 01:21 AM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.