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.

God's very own Rodeo Clown
Dusty Rhodes, evangelical rodeo clown.
urghhhh.
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Via www.jesusmuseum.com

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Check out Troyboy design's cool "Army Head" Aqua Icons:

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Does Beheading Hurt?
Here's a great question and answer session from newscientist about beheading, does it hurt, how long is the head conscious afterwards, etc. I wonder if Dr. Robert White would have anything to add to this discussion.
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Reality Check
During confusing times like these, it's often good to run a self-check on your invaluable BS filters, The Propaganda Analysis page is a nice little lesson in fine tuning your media crap detector.
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Hail to the Kooks
While I'm on the subject of mail-lists and discussion groups, hopefully all bOINGbOING'ers already are savvy to the Psychoceramics list, Psychoceramics is the sorta-scholarly study of kooks and crackpots, kind of like bird-watching.
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Warm your hands by the flame-war
If you're patient enough to wade through a thick soup of hopeful ideas and sardonic cut-downs, the Yahoo Nanotech discussion group can be a goldmine of fun talk. I can usually find myself on both sides of the fence on some of these subjects, part of me wants the extropians, et al. to keep going, another part wants somebody to knock some sense into them. Example:
Subject: Is google self-aware?
Try typing "google" into google.
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