{"id":2586,"date":"2008-09-15T15:57:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T20:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2008-09-15T20:04:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T01:04:02","slug":"little-brother-and-hackerteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/little-brother-and-hackerteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Brother and Hackerteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>&#8216;s young adult book, <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/littlebrother\/\">Little Brother<\/a>, just got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/14\/books\/review\/Grossman-t.html\">great review in the New York Times<\/a>. It&#8217;s a favorite here too. I bought a copy and offered it to my son, but he had already <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/littlebrother\/download\/\">downloaded a copy<\/a> and read it on his computer. That should tell you something; that and to know that Orwell is one of his favorite authors so many of Cory&#8217;s allusions weren&#8217;t lost on him.<\/p>\n<p>A Wordle of Little Brother:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordle.net\/gallery\/wrdl\/53571\/Little_Brother\" title=\"Wordle: Little Brother\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wordle.net\/thumb\/wrdl\/53571\/Little_Brother\" style=\"padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also recently read <a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9780596516475\/\">the first HackerTeen comic<\/a> from Brazil via O&#8217;Reilly. It&#8217;s an odd but oddly satisfying work &#8212; hacker teen in manga style drawn and written by Brazilians for an International teen audience marketed in the USA. It comes with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackerteen.com\">a hacktivist website<\/a> which is multilingual but mostly in Portuguese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow&#8216;s young adult book, Little Brother, just got a great review in the New York Times. It&#8217;s a favorite here too. I bought a copy and offered it to my son, but he had already downloaded a copy and read it on his computer. That should tell you something; that and to know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}