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.

Lapdancer: The Book

This spring, the very cool powerHouse Books will be publishing "Lapdancer," a book of photographs and interviews by NYU photography student turned lapdancer Juliana Beasley. After spending some time printing Annie Leibovitz's photos for her and documenting Albanian child-laborers in Italy, Beasley took the next eight years to document her life behind-the-scenes on the road as a professional nude dancer.

At the pH website, you can get a sneak peek of Beasley's portraits of myopic-eyed male patrons and strippers counting their cash, as well as interviews with customers who just want a hug and dancers who believe that all men are wallets.

"Ironically, it is the anonymous nature of the lapdance that allows for such closeness between two strangers that would have otherwise never have met. The lapdance becomes a metaphor for this human contradiction: the deep desire for intimacy, yet the simultaneous fear of it."

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My New Favorite Blog

Over at Buffoonery, one Manuel Wanskasmith is running a very cool lil' blog. He's a 22-year old Mexican/Finnish drugstore photo department employee in Seattle. On his blog, he brings together funky photos, rare links, and rockin' creative doo-dads.

His extensive photolog features found street art, dancing old ladies, and interspecial blog fanaticism. His links took me to the "Watch Out Behind You Hunter" shoot-or-get-sodomized hunting challenge, the latest Bjork video directed by Spike Jonze, and offensive snacks of yore. His blog entries talk about how he entertains himself on the job, what he does when he can't sleep, and how he is so not Robin Williams in "One Hour Photo." And, he offers up a highly hilarious and very dirty animated gif porn art collage that I hope we'll be seeing at the next Whitney Biennial. Link Discuss

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AlternoBlogger?

Currently, Beverly Tang and I are co-producing a panel on blogging that will take place in Los Angeles under the Rhizome banner on February 1st. Right now, my panties are all in a bunch on the search for someone in the LA area, or who will be in the LA area at that time, who is a vlogger, an audioblogger, and/or a moblogger. A blogger, in other words, who is blogging alternatively, pushing at the boundaries of the medium, and who has got a stellar blog as a consequence.

Do you know of someone? Please shoot me an email. Won't you? Well, thank you. Link Discuss

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Sex Blog Tour

Sex Blogs are very hot right now. They will probably be hot tomorrow too. That is how sex is. If you are new to Sex Blogs, but find yourself often at work with little to do, visit these Sex Blogs. Who wants to read about Mac OSX? I know I don't. Warbloggers are so 2001. Knitting blogs are great, but what if you run out of yarn? If you don't like sex, though, please don't visit these blogs. They will make you feel very bad about yourself for reasons best left between you and your therapist.

The Daddy of all Sex Blogs is Daze Reader. Daze Reader is run by Evan Daze. He is my personal idol. Recent entries include Lil' Kim's foray into burka porn, the recent arrest of a professional penis splicer, and a great series of photos shot behind-the-scenes by awesome photographer Jackie Alpers at an adult convention. Dreamy.

Pornblography is new on the Sex Blog scene, and, boy, is she hot. Carly writes from deep inside Porn Valley where she works for a big porno company. She can even tell you what a suitcase pimp is. My secret hope is that she will be blogging live from the Adult Video News Awards, "The Porn Oscars," where she will be heading shortly.

Bacchus runs ErosBlog. He gets bonus points for originality. He also gets extra-credit for referring to himself in the third-person on a regular basis. His blog features kooky kool things like butt maps, phallus cranes, and "Charlie's Angels" bondage.

Across the pond, Emily helms Dubberley: Confessions of a Porn Writer. You get to peek into the brain of a girl whose job includes editing thumbs out of erotica, and find out what happens with family during the holidays when you show Grandma clips in which you proclaim, "I've got the best job in the world as a sex-toy tester."

Well, and then, there's me. That is, The Reverse Cowgirl's Blog. Currently, I am on a Sex Blog break because I was getting all weepy from being called a Porn Blog all the time. In fact, obviously, I am a Sex Blog, which is a totally different thing. Now, my self-imposed exile is up, and I have to start Sex Blogging again. Whatever shall I do?

Link Discuss

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Virtual Fun

1. The Virtual Strip Club. Brought to you by South Florida's own Sun-Sentinel. What's the lesson here? Strip clubs are bad. Not as bad as these graphics, I say.

2. Death Row Cell. Brought to you by Florida Department of Corrections. (What's up with virtual Florida?) Just where I wanted to virtually be. Not fun. More like scary.

3. The "Best Whorehouse" Room at the Pelican Hotel. South Beach, Florida! Quote: "looks like a bordello that even Heidi Fleiss would envy." Devoid of working women.

4. MIT Skyline. Not Florida at all. Oh, how I do miss MIT so. Not. I never went there. Really. Blatant mooning at camera obviously edited out. (No kidding!)

5. Interactive Crime Scene Map of the John Holmes Wonderland Murders. Life just doesn't get any virtually better than this! (And my all-time virtual favorite.)

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