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.

Steve Brudniak
Steve Brudniak is an amazing Texas artist that I never get tired of talking about. Steve creates seemingly ancient relics from forgotten cultures who created dogmatic religions around his neurosis. (Or occasionally he'll create a bright and shiny dissection tool straight from the manufacturing plants of Neptune). His sculpture frequently incorporates electricity, found objects, biological specimens (including the blood of his friends and family as well as his own). It's offbeat, diligently conceived and crafted, and just plain cool.
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Cracking Raver Skulls
Here's a funny and frightening Batman comic from 1988, where the primary villain of the story is some guy who takes ecstasy and (logically) goes on a deranged killing spree. Typical of drug-war era propaganda, you could have called the 'drug' in question anything and it would have been the same. Everything not already mandatory is verboten.
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Kaiju big battel
After reading the wired news article about brutal "bum-fighting" today, a friend at blutorge.com turned me on to KAIJU BIG BATTEL. It's a sort of backyard wrestling take off, but with godzilla/mothra-style monster suits and a much better sense of humor.
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Cool Robot Of The Week
I'd just like to publicly apologize for neglecting to mention NASA's 'cool robot of the week' page so far. What was I thinking?
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