Gibson: Cyber-Claus

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William Gibson short: Cyber-Claus

William Gibson short: Cyber-Claus 12/26/2004 11:21 PM
Xeni Jardin: On William Gibson's blog, a holiday-themed short which was originally published as "Cyber-Claus", in The Washington Post Book World in 1991. Snip:

In the night of 12/24/07, though sensors woven through the very fabric of the house had thus far registered a complete absence of sentient bio-activity, I found myself abruptly summoned from a rare, genuine and expensively induced examples of that most priceless of states, sleep.

Even as I hurriedly dressed, I knew that dozens of telepresent armed-response drones would already be sweeping in from the District, skimming mere inches above the chill surface of the Potomac. Vicious tri-lobed aeroforms that they were, they resembled nothing more than the Martian war machines of George Pal’s 1953 epic, “The War of the Worlds”.

And while, from somewhere far above, now, came that sound, that persistent clatter, as though gunships disgorged whole platoons of iron-shod mercenaries, I could only wonder: who? Was it my estranged wife, Lady Betty-Jayne Motel-6 Hyatt, Chief Eco-Trustee of the Free Duchy of Wyoming? Or was it Cleatus “Mainframe” Sinyard himself, President of the United States and Perpetual Chairman of the Concerned Smart People’s Northern Hemisphere CoProsperity Sphere?

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Less Cyber, More Cafe: Design
Implications for Easing the Digital
Divide with Locally Social Cyber Cafes

Less Cyber, More Cafe: Design
Implications for Easing the Digital
Divide with Locally Social Cyber Cafes 08/21/2004 12:46 PM
Less Cyber, More Cafe: Design Implications for Easing the Digital Divide with Locally Social Cyber Cafes , by what we can call the Intel Gang.

Yes, Metafilter, there IS a Santa Claus

Yes, Metafilter, there IS a Santa Claus 12/25/2004 05:19 PM
T.E.R.D. Tangible Evidence. Real Discoveries. Dr. Lloyd Darrow may have proof that something - or someone - really exists.

PhysOrg: The Physics of Santa Claus

PhysOrg: The Physics of Santa Claus 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
Now a team of four top researchers looked into the case and concluded .. PhysOrg: The Physics of Santa Claus

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Santa Claus, super shaman

Santa Claus, super shaman 12/22/2003 06:29 PM
Psychedelic Santa Claus. "Modern Christmas traditions are based on ancient mushroom-using shamans." [Via J-Walk blog.]

The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus

The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus 12/24/2003 06:31 AM
are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian Northern Europe .. The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus .. Cannabis Culture .. MORE

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Sputnik-Claus is Coming to Town

Sputnik-Claus is Coming to Town 01/07/2004 05:28 PM

Just in time for the holidays, a new promotion from Sputnik: the Sputnik Quick Start Kit (bu y). The program runs from now until the end of the year. A perfect stocking stuffer for that hot spot on your holiday shopping list!

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• 2 Sputnik AP 120s
  
• 1 Sputnik Central Control License for 2 APs
  

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If you want to upgrade to the full 20-AP license (normally $895) you can do that later, for $485 more - a 25% discount.

All of the details are up at: http://www.sputnik.c om/products/promo.html

Microsoft foiled. Who said there's no
Santa Claus?

Microsoft foiled. Who said there's no
Santa Claus? 01/01/2005 10:09 PM
Observer Jan 2 2005 2:20AM GMT

This Santa Claus Drives a Taxi Cab (AP)

This Santa Claus Drives a Taxi Cab (AP) 12/25/2004 05:14 PM
AP - Forget a sleigh, this Santa Claus drives something the average person can take a ride in — a taxi.

The Guardian: Microsoft Foiled. Who Said
There's No Santa Claus?

The Guardian: Microsoft Foiled. Who Said
There's No Santa Claus? 01/03/2005 10:16 PM
"Last year was the year of Google and open source. It was also the year when the Apple iPod inherited the mantle of the Sony Walkman as the icon of a generation, IBM exited the PC business, Sun Microsystems entered its death throes..."

The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus
Website

The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus
Website 12/25/2004 08:55 PM
The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus Website (English) .. Track the Big Guy's flight tonight .. Show your kids .. See the site

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Avoid Santa Claus approach to content
management

Avoid Santa Claus approach to content
management 12/15/2003 04:42 AM

BBC NEWS | Europe | French teenagers mug
Santa Claus

BBC NEWS | Europe | French teenagers mug
Santa Claus 12/24/2004 01:09 PM
French teenagers beat up Santa Claus for candy .. mugged Father Christmas

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4117383.stm
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"The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus
Website"

"The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus
Website" 12/26/2004 04:42 PM

Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy
& Santa Claus

Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy
& Santa Claus 05/17/2004 07:38 PM

And now, a word from Mel Gibson

And now, a word from Mel Gibson 03/31/2005 07:23 PM
Fox News digs deep for expert commentary on the Schiavo case

William Gibson

William Gibson 12/26/2004 06:48 PM
William Gibson Cyber Claus

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William Gibson interview

William Gibson interview 02/18/2004 10:53 AM
Here's a great interview with William Gibson, who is on the road promoting the paperback of his brilliant novel of apophenia run wild, Pattern Recognition (see my review, too).

"When you write a science-fiction novel set in some sort of recognizable future, as soon as you finish it you have the dubious pleasure of watching it acquire a patina of quaint technological obsolescence. For instance, there are no cell phones in Neuromancer. I couldn't have foreseen them. It would have seemed corny, like Dick Tracy wrist radios."

And he never set out to predict how we might be living a few decades hence. "I always assumed that social-science fiction - anything set on Earth in a not-too-distant future - is just a mutant version of the present. But the easiest hook to hang on me was that I was a futurist. I had always maintained that I was squinting at the present in a certain way."

Link (via Futurismic)

Mel Gibson and the Passion movie
again...

Mel Gibson and the Passion movie
again... 03/08/2004 11:03 PM

A man goes to see Mel Gibson's new movie, The Passion, and is inspired to take his family to Israel to see the places where Jesus lived and died.  While on vacation his mother-in-law dies.

An undertaker in Tel Aviv explains that they can ship the body home to Wisconsin at a cost of $10,000 or the mother-in-law could be buried in Israel for US$500.

The man says, "We'll ship her home."

The undertaker asks, "Are you sure? That's an awfully big expense and we can do a very nice burial here."

The man says, "Look, 2000 years ago they buried a guy here and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."

Mel Gibson Muzzles Unfriendly Clerics

Mel Gibson Muzzles Unfriendly Clerics 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
A friend clipped, scanned and e-mailed me this item from a recent edition of the Orlando Sentinel (the article seems to have disappeared behind the paper's paid firewall). The short piece mentions actor Mel Gibson's visit to a religious convention in Florida, where he was promoting his upcoming movie about Christ's death. (I haven't seen it, but some critics have called the picture anti-Semitic, a charge Gibson has denied.) As the clipping notes, a screening for some of pastors was arranged, with one proviso. They had to sign a document in which they agreed to say only nice things about the movie if they talked about it. Gibson is free to pull such tricks, but no pastor with any integrity should have gone along with this.

William Gibson on John Shirley

William Gibson on John Shirley 03/20/2003 06:37 PM
Here's William Gibson's introduction to John Shirley's proto-cyberpunk novel, City Come a Walkin'.

Shirley made the plastic-covered Sears sofa that was the main body of seventies sf recede wonderfully. Discovering his fiction was like hearing Patti Smith's Horses for the first time: the archetypal form passionately re-inhabited by a debauched yet strangely virginal practitioner, one whose very ability to do this at all was constantly thrown into question by the demands of what was in effect a shamanistic act. There is a similar ragged-ass derring-do, the sense of the artist burning to speak in tongues. They invoke their particular (and often overlapping, and indeed she was one of his) gods and plunge out of downscale teenage bedrooms, brandishing shards of imagery as peculiarly-shaped as prison shivs.

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MSNBC - Mel Gibson says his wife could
be going to hell

MSNBC - Mel Gibson says his wife could
be going to hell 02/12/2004 06:26 AM
MSNBC - Mel Gibson says his wife could be going to hell .. Read article .. Hell

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'Violent' review for Gibson film

'Violent' review for Gibson film 02/11/2004 01:43 PM
A film critic calls Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ "brutal", saying it dwells almost entirely on pain.

comments on the Mel Gibson/Haiti posting

comments on the Mel Gibson/Haiti posting 03/08/2004 11:03 PM

Hmm... this Manila software that Harvard runs seems to have mislinked all the comments posted.  I'm cutting and pasting some manually and please feel free to use the comments button underneath this posting to comment on the original (below).

From Zoran Lazarevic:

Two hundred years in a history of a nation is a short time to change human behavior without force. For one example, think that slavery was abolished in the U.S. in 1865, but the first black generation that grew in freedom and equality was born in 1970s.

Compare today Serbs living a couple of miles away: across the river Danube which marked the border between the Austro-Hungarian empire (north) and the Ottoman empire (south). In the north, they live in neatly painted houses lined along geometrically straight roads, behind tall walls keeping the privacy of their property. Villages just south of Danube are hectically built around worn-out curvy roads, having short transparent fences displaying property in slight disarray. The north prides itself with culinary craft and the taste for fine arts from Austria and Hungary. The south takes pride in warriorship and macho attitude, and jokes about its own widespread bribery.

Serbia proper was liberated from the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire in the early 1800s, and united with the north in 1918.  There is absolutely no question, that if separated, the two regions would have very different economies. Just like there are vast differences between other ex-Yugoslavia states. And that is all after a century of common life, mostly under communism which tried to kill out (pun intended) all differences in religion and nationality.

From Fazal Majid:

You could blame Lazare Carnot (d. 1823) for fathering Sadi Carnot (d. 1832), the inventor of thermodynamics, and thus leading to global warming...

Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Chris' (AP)

Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Chris' (AP) 02/14/2004 07:52 PM
AP - Mel Gibson said the graphic depiction of Christ's crucifixion in his upcoming film "The Passion of the Christ" was meant to make viewers realize the extent of Christ's sacrifice.

William Gibson interviewed by Moira Gunn

William Gibson interviewed by Moira Gunn 12/31/2004 12:49 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: IT Conversations has an 18 minute audio interview with William Gibson, from Moira Gunn's Tech Nation program. Link

Gibson tops celebrity power list

Gibson tops celebrity power list 06/18/2004 04:52 AM
Actor and director Mel Gibson is named the most powerful celebrity in the world by US business magazine Forbes.

Report: Gibson Expands 'Passion' Screens
(AP)

Report: Gibson Expands 'Passion' Screens
(AP) 02/19/2004 07:39 PM
AP - Mel Gibson is adding 800 theaters to the debut of his controversial Crucifixion drama, "The Passion of the Christ," next Wednesday.

William Gibson on his Tech Life and
Latest Novel

William Gibson on his Tech Life and
Latest Novel 02/19/2004 07:40 PM

Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Christ' (AP)

Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Christ' (AP) 02/14/2004 09:09 PM
AP - Mel Gibson said the graphic depiction of Christ's crucifixion in his upcoming film "The Passion of the Christ" was meant to make viewers realize the extent of Christ's sacrifice.

Gibson Guitars Prepares Digital Network
Platform

Gibson Guitars Prepares Digital Network
Platform 01/08/2004 07:20 PM

Shifting Gears: Gibson to Head Tech, Ops
at NYLIM

Shifting Gears: Gibson to Head Tech, Ops
at NYLIM 04/03/2005 01:12 AM
Wall Street and Technology Apr 3 2005 4:51AM GMT

ABCNEWS.com : Gibson: 'Passion' About
'Faith, Hope, Love'

ABCNEWS.com : Gibson: 'Passion' About
'Faith, Hope, Love' 02/16/2004 11:54 PM
ABCNEWS.com : How Despairing Gibson Found 'The Passion' .. preview of Mel Gibson's interview .. in this article

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Net Pirates Show Passion for Mel Gibson
Film (Reuters)

Net Pirates Show Passion for Mel Gibson
Film (Reuters) 05/12/2004 12:45 PM
Reuters - Mel Gibson's box office smash "The Passion of the Christ" broke the ignominious record as the most-pirated movie on Internet file-sharing networks in April, an online piracy tracking firm said Wednesday.

Mel Gibson, the Jews, Haiti, and blaming
it all on people who died 175 years ago

Mel Gibson, the Jews, Haiti, and blaming
it all on people who died 175 years ago 03/08/2004 11:03 PM

People are blaming all of the Jew-hatred in Mel Gibson's new movie on the visions of a German nun, Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824).  According to this article from Newsday:

The bedridden visionary, who is said to have borne the stigmata and the wounds of the crown of thorns, is a particular source of contention for Gibson because of her depictions of Jews as bloodthirsty and venal. In The Dolorous Passion, for instance, she "sees" Jewish priests passing out bribes to get people to offer false testimony against Jesus and even tipping the Roman executioners. She also describes seeing Jesus' cross being built in the courtyard of the Temple in Jerusalem.

And Emmerich's 19th-century biographer, the Rev. C.E. Schmoe'ger, wrote about how she had one vision of an "old Jewess Meyr," who confessed to her "that Jews in our country and elsewhere strangled Christian children and used their blood for all sorts of suspicious and diabolical practices."

Gibson, who carries a relic of Emmerich in the form of a faded piece of cloth from her habit, vehemently rejects characterizations of the nun as anti-Semitic.

In other news... I was listening to NPR news a couple of days ago.  All of Haiti's current troubles were being blamed on things that the French did in 1825 and this proposition was discussed seriously for 15 minutes.  Haiti does seem to be in rather tough shape, at least going by the CIA Factbook page:

"About 80% of the population lives in abject poverty.  ... The economy shrank an estimated 1.2% in 2001 and an estimated 0.9% in 2002.  Literacy rate is 53%."

Despite an HIV infection rate of 6.1% and a lot of deaths from AIDS the population is still growing at an annual rate of 1.67%, i.e., there are an ever-increasing number of Haitians to share an ever-smaller pie.  (cf. Malthus)

Perhaps there are more problems in our world of 2004 that can be blamed on those French and Germans who died circa 1825...  Anyone care to suggest some dead Europeans to blame in the comments section?

Friars Petition Mel Gibson to Make St
Francis Film (Reuters)

Friars Petition Mel Gibson to Make St
Francis Film (Reuters) 04/21/2004 10:02 AM
Reuters - Franciscan friars in New York loved Mel Gibson's hit movie "The Passion of The Christ," so much they are petitioning him to follow-up with a film biography of the order's founder, Saint Francis of Assisi.

Indiedownloads.com offers a Gibson Jimmy
Page Signature Les Paul Guitar, $5000 or
Studio Time to One Lucky Member.

Indiedownloads.com offers a Gibson Jimmy
Page Signature Les Paul Guitar, $5000 or
Studio Time to One Lucky Member. 06/13/2004 02:23 AM
A Gibson Jimmy Page Signature Les Paul guitar is up for grabs at Indiedownloads.com. As well as Five Thousand-dollars or a twenty-four hour block of studio time for one artist to work on their album. A choice of these three prizes will be awarded one registered member of indiedownloads.com. [PRWEB Jun 13, 2004]

"FOXNews.com - The Big Story w/ John
Gibson - My Word - Desperate Times,
Desperate Measures?"

"FOXNews.com - The Big Story w/ John
Gibson - My Word - Desperate Times,
Desperate Measures?" 03/25/2005 06:44 AM

FOXNews.com - The Big Story w/ John
Gibson - My Word - Desperate Times,
Desperate Measures?

FOXNews.com - The Big Story w/ John
Gibson - My Word - Desperate Times,
Desperate Measures? 03/25/2005 06:36 AM
John Gibson: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures?

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