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Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
Honestly, I’ve never been fond of chicken. As a child I refused to eat it after I read that birds were the modern relatives of dinosaurs. If you wouldn’t eat snake or lizard why would you eat a chicken? My mother still refers to it occasionally by my label when I ask what she’s making: [...]
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
I can’t say why exactly, but I do prefer William Gibson’s more recent work. Maybe it’s obvious that a writer gets better with practice, but in his case I would suggest the reason is a ‘less is more’ sort of evolution. Neuromancer, like The Difference Engine, is so packed with ideas and descriptions the effect [...]
Love + Sex with Robots, by David Levy
I haven’t been reading much, and this book took me forever. A brilliant compilation of research on attachment, technology, and sexology, I skipped through it and doubled back. I don’t know why. A few laborious passages on pets or prostitution left me cold, but in the end I think I got it. I certainly discussed [...]
A blog without books..
I’ve made myself a new blog. Why? Because I didn’t want to clutter this one with a pile of outgoing links, but I still wanted to document my own travels on the web. I’ve gone far beyond reading the news. With a sophisticated collection of productivity tools and social networking sites, every day I [...]
The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
More actors than a telenovela stumble through a labyrinth of intrigue in this seminal Steampunk tome. There are enough points of view to disorganize a kaleidoscope; flashbacks and flashforwards; invented terms and slang. I still don’t know if I actually liked it. Rather, its a book I’ll recommend to interested parties in esoteric conversations about [...]
Spook Country, by William Gibson
Someone told Casey, Pattern Recognition is better.. The repeat of certain characters does make the second book feel somewhat formulaic, especially with a female lead of about the same age. Still, I felt these two books were apple and orange, and each an entertaining read. Hubertus Bigend returns with his advertising empire Blue Ant, this [...]
Sun of Suns, by Karl Schroeder
Here’s a quick defense of genre fiction: Sci fi novels often have happy endings, unlike the pathos ridden tomes of so-called serious authors. In fact, the very act of writing science fiction is optimistic, since there is little to suggest mankind will resolve its antagonistic relationship with Earth, and have any kind of future to [...]
iWeb No.3: Entering the iWeb Domain
Where does iWeb save the files and folders of your site while you’re working on it; what web designers refer to as the local site? The data is saved in the system in a special format, called the Domain file. Let’s navigate now to the Domain file and have a look. Open Finder and go [...]
iWeb No. 2: Choosing a Template
Launch iWeb and examine the opening dialog box. There is a selection of beautiful templates to choose from. The problem with templates is, you run the risk of showing up like Scarlett O’Hara in the same dress as your rival at the dance. We can learn quite alot from the talented designers at Apple, [...]
iWeb No. 1: Why iWeb?
This is the first in a series of tutorials on the Apple software iWeb, an application installed on all Mac computers as part of the operating system Leopard. Like all software which builds websites in a drag and drop window, iWeb is a code generator. There are pros and cons to building a website without [...]
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