CaseyMOORE (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
From Warren Ellis' latest Wired column - iPhone/Cell phone maps : ■ Bruce Sterling’s comment about "Nazi layers" in his recent address to augmented reality (AR) company Layar comes true very fast, as the BNP releases a "British layer" that superimposes on your camera view of any British town a hyperlocal guide to population pressure, of "indigenous" British...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Astronaut Michael Barratt (Expedition 20 Flight Engineer) walks you through the International Space Station in this 20-minute long HD video, which covers the entire 167 feet of the space station's pressurized modules. Barratts' commentary describes to Mission Control in Houston how equipment and supplies are arranged and stored, and provides engineers with a detailed assessment of each module-to-module...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Here's Bruce Sterling's Dwell interview with ISS engineer Nicole Stott on the living conditions in space: "BS: It would be great to hear about any wear patterns that reflect the traces human beings always leave in a home. Hand-written labels, fridge magnets, welcome mats, duct tape, foam padding on metal parts where people bump their heads, posters, decals, wise-cracking graffiti, barracks pin-ups,...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Here's Bruce Sterling's Dwell interview with ISS engineer Nicole Stott on the living conditions in space: "BS: It would be great to hear about any wear patterns that reflect the traces human beings always leave in a home. Hand-written labels, fridge magnets, welcome mats, duct tape, foam padding on metal parts where people bump their heads, posters, decals, wise-cracking graffiti, barracks pin-ups,...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The annual Trieste Science+Fiction Festival has just come to a close with the awards hardware being handed out to an interesting collection of films. The Silver Melies Award - an award granted by every accredited festival of the European Federation of Fantastic Film Festivals, qualifying the film for the year end Golden Melies award - went to Tom Shankland's The Children , the Audience Award went...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Three "eh"s for the stories in this issue. Almost all of them were decent, but nothing stood out. The best stories were the last two, "A Long Time Dying" by Geoffrey A. Landis and "The Woman, the Pilot, the Raven" by Dean Whitlock. Proving how subjective this stuff is, there's an editorial at the beginning (not seen all that often in F&SF) where Kristine Katheryn Rusch...
The Steampunk Workshop (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
This year I decided to do something a little different with my gift guide. Rather than try for a steampunk theme, I decided to apply a steampunk philosophy. I thought back over the things that I purchased that have pleased me greatly. Often they were purchases that I agonized over. Purchases where I stretched and bought something I really couldn't afford or where I bought the most expensive version...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
(left) Burdick Mall, Kalamazoo, MI, designed by Victor Gruen, 1959; (right) Dixie Square Mall, Harvey, IL, 2009, photo by Jon Revelle In anticipation of the consumerist high holy day of Black Friday, I was delighted to read former BB guestblogger Mark Dery's insightful essay in Change Observer about the birth, and death, and rebirth, of the shopping mall. Mark begins with the father of mall architecture,...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
There are reports of a new worm that targets jailbroken iPhones and behaves like a botnet. It targets people in the Netherlands who use their iPhones for online banking with the Dutch bank ING, and the worm affects devices with SSH installed. (via Bruce Sterling)...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
There are reports of a new worm that targets jailbroken iPhones and behaves like a botnet. It targets people in the Netherlands who use their iPhones for online banking with the Dutch bank ING, and the worm affects devices with SSH installed. (via Bruce Sterling)...
Hi! (Books, bikes, movies and me) (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/11/henry-jenkins-notes-on-interstitial-arts/ [via bruce sterling]
Weblogsky (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I ran across a few old files today. Here’s an intrerview I did with Bruce Sterling in 1992. (Originally appeared in bOING-bOING #9) Bruce Sterling’s unparalleled reputation as a writer of bleeding edge science fiction and as a spokesman for the cyberpunk literary flare is well known, but recently he’s been [...]
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A slow-moving, cold-blooded goat once lived on the island of Majorca. "They also saved energy by having a brain half the size of hoofed mammals its own size, and its eyes were only a third of the size." (Via Bruce Sterling)...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The full line-up of the icon minds talks, by the likes of Ronan Bouroullec, Farshid Moussavi, Bruce Sterling and Dunne & Raby, can now be viewed online. Watch Farshid Moussavi, Charles Jencks and Marjan Colletti discuss the return of ornament; Dunne & Raby and Bruce Sterling talk about design fiction; Joseph Grima and Julien de Smedt on the pressures of running a young and successful architecture...
frankwu (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
First off, anyone reading this going to Philcon? Second off, I'm on a panel at Philcon about aliens. What do you, o great lj overmind, think are the "most plausible" aliens in SF (as in hard SF)? Or, failing most "plausible," how about... most interesting? I'd like to nominate: The Swarm in "Swarm" by Bruce Sterling The insectoid creatures in "Love Is the Plan - The...
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