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.

Which Mighty Midol are you? Battling the forces of "monstruation." You know, a cramp is a cramp is a cramp no matter how much you try to "fun" it up. Link (via Frank Gumola)

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Star Robes: "Would you like to see my Land Speeder?" Halcyon and Kaya Styn play with dolls, sorry, action figures. Link

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Digital Web Magazine celebrates six years online this week! Six web years -- that's like a 150 "real" years, isn't it? Well, it certainly feels like it. Congratulations to Nick and the crew. Link

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Guide to New York Jargon: Alas, I have a more than passing acquaintance with "Derelicked." Link

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Less is more! Ladies and gentlemen, the 5k contest has returned! Link

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Who are the people in your neighbourhood? "The people that you meet, when you're walking down the street..." Well, if you're Jessamyn, you might meet this fellow. Link

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