© 1998 electric sheep comix
Popular Posts
-
This is the knot that is seen worn by the Merovingian. Which is why it's now called the Merovingian knot, even though it had two perfec...
-
I had to run a FreeBSD binary the other day, so this meant I had to actually install From what I can tell of the freenode irc channels, nobo...
-
markup langs: SQL http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp XML go do the xml thing first 1. http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_intro.asp 2...
-
You hear it all the time, people trying to engage in renters-bragging about what section of Frisco they live in, using phrases like "Th...
-
Tiobe's chart which force me to take stock of my favorite programming languages. Erlang is #39. It's pretty obvious it's noth...
-
"That whole public speaking thing is something i'm getting really good at... ...gave a tech presentation a few weeks ago to a prett...
-
As far as I can tell, it's to promote DUIs and drunk driving. The BART closes at 12:30. The bars, close at 2. Therefore people will d...
-
The “ESR 3” Set Theory - never used this at all. Combinatorics - good basis for statistics, probability, cryptography. Graph Theory gets ...
-
The open-source scene pretty much took the fun out of programming. It's become an industry of egomaniacs engaged in constant one-upsmans...
-
I've been saying it for years, but finally people are seeing the truth: Paul Lim: What was the root of this crisis? Was it the housing m...
Showing posts with label crux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crux. Show all posts
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Truth in Postmodern Falsisity
Visionary writer is OK. Prophet is just not true. One of the things that made me like Bruce Sterling immediately when first I met him, back in 1991. [sic] We shook hands and he said "We’ve got a great job ! We got to be charlatans and we’re paid for it. We make this shit up and people believe it."
—Gibson in interview with ActuSf, March 2008
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
