Veloce Publishing has a brand new book, BMW Custom Motorcycles by Uli Cloesen, and if you're on the lookout for some ideas to change the appearance or function of your Beemer, this is a fascinating selection of what's being done all over the world. Some of the bikes, you've seen before on The Kneeslider, but many, if not most, are new to me. I like a lot of what's in here, but … [Read more...]

Not long ago, I reviewed Where Good Ideas Come From, a book about the many ways new ideas can spring up in all sorts of unexpected places. In it, the author touches on something practiced by many writers and thinkers back the 17th or 18th century, it was called commonplacing, or maintaining a "commonplace book." In this era of the Internet, where everything you need to know is … [Read more...]