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Link dump: Tubes, vampires, cookies

Posted in Play on 30 January 2010 | Comments?
Tags: astronomy, humor, internet, links, scifi, space

(It’s time for another link dump, a hodgepodge of web goodness. Enjoy!)
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There is a theory — a “unified” theory, in fact — that the universe is connected by “wave tubes”. (Imagine traveling to other galaxies through wormholes ala-Star Gate.) But I digress.
On a less grander scale, but still beautiful, here is the Milky Way, represented [...]

Robot Sunday

Posted in Play on 3 January 2010 | Comments?
Tags: books, fun, movies, robotics, robots, robotsunday, science, scifi, tech, writing

Schneier has “Friday Squid Blogging“, so being original and imaginative, I’ll take on Robot Sundays. (Besides, plenty other people do regular “niche” posts, and I thought, “Why not?”)
But why robots?
Well, I’ve been fascinated by robots since I was young. (Who isn’t?) My main motivation in becoming a computer engineer was to build robots. That, [...]

Surprise finds

Posted in Play on 23 February 2008 | 4 comments
Tags: books, cyberpunk, perl, scifi, secondhand

Got these yesterday from a second-hand book shop here in Cabanatuan City: (from top) Neil Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon; Orson Scott Card’s Speaker for the Dead; William Gibson’s Virtual Light; and Programming Perl, second edition, from O’Reilly. All for Php99 each.
Not bad at all.

Oh, no, Keanu Reeves is at it again!

Posted in Play on 23 February 2006 | Comments?
Tags: movies, reading, scifi, watching

Remember Johnny Mnemonic, and how Reeves mangled it? Brace yourself, because he’s doing Philip K. Dick’s cyberpunk book, A Scanner Darkly (screenplay and direction by Richard Linklater (Dazed and confused, Before Sunrise)).
Here’s a preview trailer:

Reminds me of a recent thread on PLUG-Misc. I haven’t read the book, but I do hope they do cyberpunk right [...]