Awesome. Then came this gem: In the mid-80s, tired of getting Hunter S. Thompson's column copy late, by snail-mail, the editors of the San Francisco Examiner took the plunge and sent Thompson a new gizmo called a "Mac." The relationship between the fabled journalist and his electronic tool was reportedly troubled from the beginning. It ended shortly thereafter, when Thompson called his editor screaming in frustration, grabbed his shotgun, ...
If you enjoy good books and haven't read Rainbows End, here's your chance. To the Net-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives -- Wikipedia, Google, and the others of their kind, now and in the future. My pal Jon didn't like the book, but he's in the Oprah Book Club... so go figure. thx to boingboing for the link.
Um... yes. I was fortunate enough to take a couple of courses on Shakespeare from the great Dr. John Cobb at Wofford College. Prof Cobb was beyond phenomenal and his presentation of Shakespeare changed my life and helped me understand the power of word, language and literature. Evidently that's not the case for almost half of NC college students (unfortunately): According to a study by The John William Pope Center for ...
Two of my favorite writers, Cory Doctorow and Ursula K Le Guin, are in a bit of a spat over the perception of fair use and creative commons in relation to a short Le Guin piece that Doctorow published on the uber popular boingboing.net blog: In a nutshell: I quoted, in its entirety, a one-paragraph story that Ms Le Guin sent to the fanzine Ansible, in which she made ...
Must read poetry. Here's a part from my favorite entitled "Jesus Wants to Make You a Millionaire" And yet we still believe that Jesus’ main objective through his hard living and bloody slaughter is to make you a millionaire Bruce also has a downloadable collection of 25 poems titled "The Well-Lit, Freshly Paved, Six-Lane Boulevard to Nowhere" which is recommended reading (especially the forward from videoblogger and Facebook friend Loren Feldman... you should also be watching his ...
Perhaps it's because I'm reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, but this is a great mind exercise of how to explain World of Warcraft to someone from the year 1977... I'm trying to work out how I'd go about explaining this news item from WOWinsider to someone thirty years ago, in 1977, and it is making my head hurt because there are too many prior assumptions nested recursively inside it ...
Nice wrap up of the best Sci Fi novels and authors out there right now. I've lately gotten back into reading science fiction. During my teens, I poured through the classics of sci fi and some of the stuff that was coming out in the early 90's, but it seems as if there's been a renaissance of sorts of the genre in this decade. Couldn't agree more about Rainbows ...
Talk about synchronicity! Last night I had the urge to go buy Philip K Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" It's the basis for the movie Blad Runner, which I haven't seen in years. This morning while flipping through the NY Times, I came across an article about Philip K Dick and the book... The science fiction writer’s job is to survey the future and report back to ...
Wonderful. Thank you internets... Hunter S. Thompson: 1978 BBC Documentary 'Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision' - Google Video
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