bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
In alphabetical order, artists whose books/movies I'll buy the day they come out until either I or the authors/director crump. 1. Lorraine Adams 2. Joan Brady 3. Charles Cumming 4. William Gibson 5. Werner Herzog 6. Larry Kolb 7. John...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
William Gibson Interview -- Void Manufacturing The whole interview is worth reading. WG: It was only last year that my fascination with Youtube got into full swing. One day I suddenly realised that Pattern Recognition is a pre-Youtube novel, and it would not have made any sense in the real world. If I had written that book after Youtube had become what it had become, people wouldn’t be watching that...
Unvarnished - Travis Smith (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/ebay_pr.html I also collect watches. Thanks, Darren.
Another Monkey (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
While on the way to a bloggers' get-together this afternoon, I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR and heard a mention of an event called All Tomorrow's Parties . Naturally my mind jumped right to the Velvet Underground song and the William Gibson novel, but I knew there was something else there, something I should have remembered, something I was forgetting. But what? And then, when they...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Absolutely hilarious, via William Gibson, no less: I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE. I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY...
Autopia (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
(((I wonder why anyone thinks that William Gibson, author of "Idoru," is anything other than a hardboiled realist.))) http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/20/webkare-a-girls-only-combination-of-social-network-and-dating-game-from-japan Link: Japanese Girl Sensation: Virtual Boyfriends (Webkare) . In Japan, girls are crazy over virtual boyfriends. Webkare (Web Boyfriend in Japanese),...
Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
If you don’t know Juno Reactor you probably know their big hit, Mona Lisa Overdrive (named after the William Gibson novel), off the original The Matrix soundtrack. It really set the tone for the film and IMHO influenced gobs of electronic musicians that followed. This should be a fantastic show. Want to win a pair of [...]
The Jayarava Rave (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Over the past year or so I have reflecting quite a bit on the Internet as a medium of communication and more recently have been pondering the phrase "virtual reality" and it's derivatives. I'm not sure when I first heard this term, but I recall reading William Gibson's Neuromancer in 1991. It was on the reading list for my post graduate librarianship course at Victoria University, NZ. I think it was...
jill/txt (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
The group that hacked into Sarah Palin’s email, Anonymous, seems like something out of a William Gibson novel. I’m not sure, but I might prefer to keep them in novel-space.
Blacknell.net (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Sad.1 David Foster Wallace2, along with perhaps only William Gibson, had a reader in me for everything he wrote. So dedicated was I to his Infinite Jest that I carried it in planes, trains, and autobuses over three continents.3 If you’ve never read any of his work, maybe you could start with this brilliant 2005 [...]
Torque Control (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Reviews of Anathem: Michael Dirda in the Washington Post (grumpy), The Complete Review (snobby), Laura Miller in the LA Times; Paul Witcover in Locus; Martin Lewis at Strange Horizons. Abigail Nussbaum on William Gibson’s Spook Country and Ian McDonald’s Brasyl: “Much as I enjoyed the substance of Brasyl, the experience of reading it was marked by [...]
anacronyms (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Make sure you don’t misread that title… William Gibson has proved himself a visionary, and a deservedly influential one. His fiction predicted a lot of the modern electronic world. I wonder if he saw a scenario with which we are all familiar: A busy restaurant, in any major downtown core on a weekday. There is a burst of [...]
Our Descent Into Madness (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
From Wired, check out these awesome sculptures made of old typewriter parts. Mayer, who describes his work as a cross between Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical drawings and the gritty futures imagined by sci-fi maestros William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, assembles his artwork without welding, soldering or gluing.
Top News Cast - World (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
By William Gibson There is little doubt just about everyone has been impacted in one way or another by the economic downturn. Are we in a recession or not? Who can really say? What is clear is some people have been pushed to the financial edge and bankruptcy is a concern. When your computer freezes up, what do you do? You hit the reboot button. Well, bankruptcy pretty much serves the same function...
Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
[Via Boing Boing] I must confess the idea of listening to some music tracks to get myself in the mood for reading a particular book has never occurred to me. But it has occurred to William Gibson. Here’s his playlist for Spook Country. I must say the dude’s got good taste. Excellent to see Lucinda [...]
