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.

Fuck time travel. Here's the Ass Morpher.
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Paypal Warning! Good thing I don't have any money.
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Thank God Geraldo's on the job!
"Rivera has suggested he would try to kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden if they ever met face to face."
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Where have you been all my life! CryptoHeaven is "A user-friendly, no-compromise information-heaven crypto system is created, where no third party, including server administrators and others watching, have access to plain text version of transmitted information. Information is stored in encrypted form on the server as generated by the client, and only the sender and the recipient possess the keys to gain access to the information. Having the entire log of all transmissions made and all of the data stored on the server, does not give access to the plain text version of information." link discuss (via cryptome)

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Directed Energy Professional Society. Sounds like some New Age thing. Rest assured, it's not!
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More PSYOPS pamphlets. This one showing a map of America and a map of Afghanistan shaking hands with the word "Friendship" emblazoned over top. Do friends drop bombs on each other? Maybe.
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Do you ever lie awake at night and worry about Manuel Noriega's immortal soul? I used to, until I found out that Noriega had been saved, and was on his way to the *other* big house. I wonder how long it'll be before he gets sent to hell for getting on the wrong side of the law?
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Learn how to hax0r foreigners using this page devoted to PSYOPS, specifically leaflets. My favourite is the The Value of Money leaflet which looks like a 25 Dinar note, but has instructions for surrendering on the back. I can just see all of Sadaams elite forces scurrying out of their bunkers for the salad, and then...Blammo! Stop messing with our heads, man!
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Dictionary of the Gods: Invaluable reference material for those of us trying to get back in touch with our spirituality in these troubled times. The Dictionary of the Gods is a great place to get reacquainted with such deities as The Bleeding Head of Arnold Palmer which is "A plaster golf-trophy head of the famous world-cup golfer, Arnold Palmer, smeared with red paint, which is actually the oldest living thing in the Universe and a being of immeasurable power (Arnold Palmer himself is actually only a cheap replica of The Head, crafted by the slack-draining Satan.)" For a sensation of pure slack enjoy this audio footage from the mysterious crater of the Yacatisma Sperm Crater - don't ask me, look it up!
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