Tag Archives: Bruce-Sterling
links for 2008-01-23: Pioneer anomaly, Sterling’s Kiosk
Universe Today ยป A Possible Answer to Flyby Anomalies See previously (tags: astronomy physics space Pioneer Unruh-effect) Bruce Sterling – Kiosk What happens when 3D fabricators are capable of fabricating fabricators? (tags: Bruce_Sterling scifi fabrication technology)
The inner life of the cell
Bruce likes the proteins sitting on a raft of cholesterol; I like the zipped up protein microtubules (above). This video is a rich source of outlandish terminology, containing a truly enormous number of words unlikely to be useful in any … more…
Noooo!!! They Be Steamin’ Mah Punk! — Desultory Notes on Steampunk
This post was originally just going to be about this beautiful book cover, which appears to be a nautical chart overlaid with hinged brass doodads, posted by its maker, special effects and model maker Tim Baker on LiveJournal’s handmadebooks community. … more…
links for 2007-01-01: Fiza
YouTube – Mehboob Mere Fiza, by way of Bruce Sterling (tags: bollywood india assassin Bruce_Sterling youtube)
links for 2006-12-19: Picasso, centipede, “At This Rate…”
Underground Art – washingtonpost.com Picasso’s response to Lascaux (tags: Picasso Lascaux prehistory art cave_painting) Beyond the Beyond Sterling defines centipede (tags: politics Centipede scandal smear neologism) Show-off Gallery Giles Revell & Matt Willey (tags: photography catastrophe leaves)
Sterling: “The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier”
Bruce Sterling points to a couple of sites under the fetching title, The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier: some great pictures of Life in General re-colonising the post-industrial ruins of Detroit, and a blog in much the … more…
Satellites over Baghdad
chez Saddam: Republican Palace, Baghdad – a satellite view (1056x855px.), dated August 2002. Quoth Bruce Sterling: “Why listen to political blather about the next Gulf War when you can watch it from outer space?”. If we only could, Bruce, if … more…
A Contrarian View of Open Source
A Contrarian View of Open Source – wonderfully intemperate Bruce Sterling rant from the recent O’Reilly Open Source Convention: Microsoft Windows is slowly but surely becoming an armed terrorspace. It’s like an airport. You go into an airport nowadays, it’s … more…
Bruce Sterling “Geeks and Spooks” speech
IP: Bruce Sterling “Geeks and Spooks” speech at Information SystemSecurity and Education Center – what it says on the tin. (via Boing Boing)
Bruce Sterling: The Infinite Matrix | Recent Columns
The Infinite Matrix | Recent Columns – Most implausibly, The Infinite Matrix, a high quality sf webzine long thought to be a one-ooff, has revived, thanks to an anonymous benefactor. Among the benefits to humankind implied by this, Bruce Sterling’s … more…