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.

Stop Those Little Fellas: I found this unusual game on the Swiss Stop Aids Web site. If these cartoon sperm were real, I'd become a nun. Link Discuss

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Warm Pants Feel Good: From the fella who brought you Superbad.com, there's Mister Pants. Ben rants, raves and writes unusual commentary. The last time I visited, he had a video up of a Japanese boy band wearing nothing but fig leafs as they sang a pop hit about chicks. Link Discuss

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Tim Burton's competition: Brian Taylor's computer-animated film "Rustboy" makes me wonder why more movies like this aren't being made. Link Discuss

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Give me freaks now: Every week, Everlasting Blort serves up THE weirdest links. You're guaranteed to waste hours randomly clicking and giggling like a madman. Click it now! Now I say! Link Discuss

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Mail Artists Unite: People who send bowling balls and toast through the mail with nothing on it but a few stamps intrigue me. In fact that entire Ray Johnson Fluxus movement gets me all giddy. So why not keep the weirdo mail art revolution going by joining Nervousness.org? You can sign up to receive journals, minibooks, altered books, craft projects and more. Or start your own project and watch people sign up to participate in a flash. Some projects include weird topics like a scary clown memory journal and a condiments tribute book! Link Discuss

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What I wouldn't give to be a kick-ass illustrator like Brian Biggs! He's written and drawn some of the best comic books in my collection to date: "Dear Julia" and "Frederick & Eloise." His site is filled with illustrations, comics and animated projects galore for you to gawk at with watery, jealous peepers. Link Discuss

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There's only one person in this world who can make children carrying meat balloons seem so charming and nightmarish at the same time. Meet artist Mark Ryden. Link Discuss

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