Garden Noam Chomsky

Featured in The Nation's charity auction, this Garden Noam Chomsky sculpture, of a run "probably limited to less than 100".

Gnome Chomsky the Garden Noam (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Previously:

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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juepucta

When did Chomsky join Devo? He wouldn’t approve of using their work for selling Swiffer mops.

-G.
Anonymous

Do you think there was “Consent” to the “Manufacturing” of these?
- Anonymous
  
  He received one and was very happy about it. Steve has a picture of him with it.
http://www.springbox.us HaruHaru

Whoa, this is an Artist at my family’s gallery in Portland!! His name is Steve Herrington and is a very cool dude.

If anyone is interested in making the dream of owning your very own Gnome Chomsky a reality please visit
http://www.springbox.us

Under Artists/Steve Herrington!!
Anonymous

I’m trying to find a way to bid on one of these but the sight won’t cough it up even in the search. Any help?
Anonymous

Looks like Larry King !
AirPillo

Cory Doctorow has achieved Left 4 Dead 2: Guardin’ Gnome

(the gnome for that achievement in Left 4 Dead 2, incidentally, is named Gnome Chompski)
- desiredusername
  
  You’ve just cheapened what I went through to earn that achievement.
  - AirPillo
    
    Imagine my horror trying to do it with a team of bots, before they patched the bot AI (when the bots would frequently take you being incapped as a cue to take a smoke break and let you die.
Xopher

I have to get one of these for my old Stratificational Linguistics professor, so he can put it in his yard and have people throw things at it.
Anonymous

Y’all did know today’s his birthday, right?
R. Isaac

Does it come in solid chlorine? My office’s urinal could use a new chlorine puck.
Random_Tangent

Those of you who do not wish to bid on the charity auction but can’t live without a Garden Noam can apparently buy one here:

http://www.justsaygnome.net/gnomes-noams–oms—products—ordering.html

It’s so crazy, I may just get one. Maybe I can convince myself that if I get the unpainted version, it’ll be like an art project and will very fulfilling and totally worth the money.
DasBub

+1 Internet
desiredusername

I got the Guardin’ Gnome achievement on L4D2 two weeks ago. While my mates were incapped, I ran Gnome Chomskey into the stadium, then successfully combated a hunter in the safe room for the touchdown. On advanced!
arielariel

The World’s Largest Garden Gnome (I don’t guarantee that to be the case) is also named Gnome Chomsky and lives in Kerhonksen, NY — http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/16156 is the link to the gnome and http://www.kelderfarm.com/ is the link to the farm he lives on.
Anonymous

He looks just like CNN’s ex-anchorman Aaron Brown!
Anonymous

Why does he have a pile of shit on his head?

Not that that is a bad thing, just curious.
technogeek

OK, it’s a cute pun, though it doesn’t beat Nim Chimpsky.

Happy cybernetic birthday, Noam, wherever you are.

Their “Green Man” sculpture is a lot more tempting, for me. And, of course, significantly more costly and in limited production. Oh Well.
sapere_aude

Thanks for the laugh. I really enjoyed that. (Which is probably a sad commentary on my sense of humor.)

Even though I’m not really a fan of Chomsky’s work (either in linguistics or in politics), I’m tempted to get one of these just for the pun value.
Daemon

Best visual pun I’ve seen in years.