teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week - the edited version. one world one twitter Twitter, Google Maps Used To Track Down Two Missing Skiers - "Yesterday, a group of technology entrepreneurs from the UK on a skiing vacation in the Swiss Alps (Verbier) lost two o...

Best I can gather, Bruce Sterling just spun everybody’s head around from a New Zealand pulpit with a fantastic blizzard of words about the silly vagueness of Web 2.0, and offered up as its replacement a monumentally vaguer futuristic apparition he calls the Transition Web. And nobody’s r...

Illustrations by Mike Saenz for two Ballard stories in Semiotext(e) SF: ‘Jane Fonda’s Augmentation Mammoplasty’ and ‘Report on an Unidentified Space Station’. Rudy Rucker’s wonderful reminiscences about the early days of cyberpunk (’it felt like being an early Beat̵...

We all know minimalism is currently king in the gadget design world. Fancy shapes, switches and knobs have been eschewed in favor of clean and simple designs that take a backseat to interface. So we......

"Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it." Joseph Joubert "The shortest answer is doing." George Herbert "Thoughts are but dreams till their effect be tried." Shakespeare Today's image: Queen of in Love Hearts by FotoRita . Wonderful. Thank...

“I really would not want to fuck George W. Bush!â€�: A Conversation with J. G. Ballard, conducted by Werner Fuchs and Sascha Mamczak. ABOVE: JGB in 2006 (photo courtesy The Terminal Collection). Translation by Dan O’Hara. The interview below was published in a vast tome, an annual German rev...

Just when you think someone is “The Enemy”, maybe even “The Other“.. up springs a lovely, unifying surprise. Yep, it’s (still) all connected. I’ve just joined The Well. Found myself wanting to get stuck into Bruce Sterling types again (rant rant nihilistic, post-m...

Sarkozy + Carla = black swan factor The High Impact of the Unexpected I love Bruce Sterling. His book Disruption has stayed with me for over a decade. His predictions about the way technology will create even more manipulative political campaigns have come to pass. Think: the President-elect with an...