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• 07-Oct-2024

  
  Cyberpunk at 40. Joanna McNeil has a new piece up at Filmmaker. The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk. It’s a terrific appreciation for cyberpunk, and for William Gibson’s writing in particular. I’ve often wondered why cyberpunk tattooed itself into my brain the second I encountered it. This passage from her column sounds like “why”...

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• 26-Feb-2024

  
  Open Shelves capjamesg has made public a promising tool to read bookshelves for book cataloging. It’s called Open Shelves. He wrote about it more in a post called Photograph a bookshelf, get a list of the book titles. It’s wonderful to see that a single person can build an interesting computer vision tool. I plan to do...

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• 09-Jan-2016

  
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• 16-Feb-2009

  
  Lego Yamato; USS Texas From JapanProbe we have this wonderful find: In the twilight months between living in the Philippines and moving to New Orleans, Channel 6 in San Diego showed Star Blazers. I found the notion of reviving a dead battleship for the purposes of traveling to space and defending Earth to be inspiring. I thought little that...

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• 24-Aug-2008

  
  What is the proper function of libraries? Uncle Bobby’s Wedding Brilliantly explicated by a Librarian in response to community objections to a book called Uncle Bobby’s Wedding. That eloquent defense of this books and free thought is America to me. It makes me proud to have worked in a library when I was in my teens.

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• 19-Aug-2008

  
  Unfit for Publication Lots of news about this jerk Jerome Corsi’s book these days. The rebuttal makes it clear that the book is idiotic. Excellent transparency, and fast response from the Obama campaign. Get the PDF of Unfit for Publication via this page on Time Magazine’s site.

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• 20-Nov-2007
  William Gibson, Gravy, and a Video William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview : Rolling Stone I find myself less pessimistic than I sometimes imagine I should be. When I started to write science fiction, the intelligent and informed position on humanity’s future was that it wasn’t going to have one at all. We’ve forgotten that a whole lot of...

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• 20-Jun-2005
  The Book Baton (Books of Importance To Me) 1. Total Number of Books You Own Man. I’m not even sure. Before we moved I had many hundreds I think. We gave away to Goodwill many of our books. And how do I count graphic novels, of which I have many? Let’s say I have 200, plus minus. And since I’m married, do I...

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• 07-Dec-2004
  Books for Web Folk (1999) People often ask me how I learned all these magic tricks. The answer is books, of course. The books that follow are the crucial books in my education in the ways of the World Wide Web. There are more books – but these are the desert island books. Web development: Teach Yourself Web Publishing with...

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• 07-Nov-2003
  Bruce Sterling ArtLung Timeline 1988: I attend a reading by William Gibson for Mona Lisa Overdrive. He recommends Bruce Sterling’s Islands In The Net as the work of a guy who “actually thinks about this stuff” [scene missing]… 1996: I mention with a laundry list 1998: I put him on my links page 1999: Viridian Couture Contest 1999: Heat...

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