Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician and a computer scientist. Born in Kentucky in 1946, Rucker moved to Silicon Valley when he turned 40. Rucker has published twenty-five books, primarily science-fiction and popular science. He was an early cyberpunk and an editor at Mondo 2000. He often writes SF in a style is characterized as transreal. His most recent novels were Frek and the Elixir, a far-future epic about a boy's galactic quest to restore Earth's ecology and As Above So Below, a historical novel based on the life of the sixteenth century painter Peter Bruegel.  Rucker is a professor emeritus of computer science at San Jose State University, where he created a number of freeware programs relating to chaos, artificial life, cellular automata, higher dimensions, and computer games. He is presently working on The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul, a nonfiction book about computers and the nature of reality. Rucker's website can be found at www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker or at www.rudyrucker.com.

If you missed the Soft Boys or Robyn Hitchcock the first time around, you missed some of the catchiest surrealist pop around. Get a sample in mp3 form from their reunion tours last year. Link Discuss

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Uncover some of the secret or "lost" stations of the London Underground. There are no trainspotters like English trainspotters.Link Discuss

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You don't need that guy from Crossing Over to find the dead. (Thanks Molly !)Link Discuss

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Need a little Thanksgiving cheer, Mob-style? Check out the turkeyday hijinks of Frank & Fritzy via FBI wiretap.Link Discuss

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The azartmedia flash lab says it does interactive animation. But go there to play BombCat. LinkDiscuss  

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DIY filmmaker Daniel Robin’s Neighborhood Films site is full of tiny storytelling gems. Robin is a valet in SF’s North Beach neighborhood and makes 3-4 minute video vignettes about his neighborhood. He’s also got a great series on Aquarius Records in SF’s Mission district. He’s taking submissions if you want to join his community of digital filmmakers. Link Discuss

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Consumers force Record Company to reissue CD without lame copy-protection scheme. Yay! Revolt today! Death to dumb companies and their braindead ideas! Link Discuss

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Small start-up company which makes anti-Anthrax goo/moistureizer freaked out and subjected to a business tizzy due to US biowar scare. Link Discuss

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