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.

Spider-Man? Bah! I'll take these pint-sized girls any day over some arachnidly-challenged teen. Link

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Hey, Who's That Face in My Song? "Aphex Twin, who has been described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music," appears to have sneaked the digital image of a devilish face into at least one of his songs." Link

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'Clones' being cloned: "Extremely serious threat." I wonder what colour that is on the federal alert system. Puce? Chartreuse? Link

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Fact or fallacy: "A Westside resident called the cops Monday to report an allegedly phallic tree." You really wouldn't want to introduce this with something like "honey, go out and trim the bush" (wrong gender). Link (via SixDifferentWays)

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The art of office e-mail war: "They don't call it a "killer app" for nothing. E-mail is corporate culture's favorite new weapon." Link

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Novelist Spurs Passion Over Parking: "The 54-year-old grande dame of fiction has amassed 26 residential permits in her tony Pacific Heights neighborhood--more than any San Franciscan, city officials say." Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! As a beleaguered resident who won't drive for fear of never being able to park again, I say "off with her head!" Link (via Lance, via Morning News)

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Star Wars Short Film Special: "Filmmaker and Star Wars fan Kevin Smith (Dogma) will host a SCI FI Channel original special..." You know all those nutty fan flicks that have been floating around the web for years? Well, I think we may get to see them on the small screen. Link

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Nice Kitty: What if those poker playing dogs were actually musical instrument playing cats? Oh, and they were animated? Link (thanks Dan)

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Ken Rosenthal: "Seen and Not Seen is a merging of the autobiographical and the universal. Most of the photographs in this series are intensely personal, yet many speak to a common experience." Link

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new in {fray}: homecoming. Link

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