Tag Archives: Entertainment

How emacs got into Tron: Legacy

Posted on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by author-unknown

Here’s a great account of the good, nerdy thoughtfulness that went into generating the command-line screenshots for Tron: Legacy; JT Nimoy decided that he’d go for a mix of l33t and realistic, and landed on emacs eshell and posix kill:

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Neal Stephenson’s gold farming thriller, REAMDE

Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 by author-unknown

HarperCollins have
announced the next Neal Stephenson novel, REAMDE, a thriller about gold farming. I sat down with Neal last year when I was touring with my own gold farming book, For the Win, and we marvelled together at the awesome weirdness, fraud… Continue reading →

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Delightful science fiction story in review of $6800 speaker cable

Posted on Saturday, November 27, 2010 by author-unknown

Nestled amongst the many funny and delightful reviews for the AudioQuest K2 terminated speaker cable, an 8-foot audio cable that sells for $6,800.00 (a $1,650.00 savings!) is this wonderful short science fiction story by Whisper, an Amazon customer i… Continue reading →

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MovieStinger | Post-credits Scene Database, Movie/Video Game News and Reviews!

Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by Beanbag

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MovieStinger | Post-credits Scene Database, Movie/Video Game News and Reviews!

Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by Beanbag

(via Delicious/tsangal)

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Terry Bisson/Rudy Rucker illustrated picture book

Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by author-unknown

How cool is this: Rudy Rucker painted a series of illustrations for Terry “Bears Discover Fire” Bisson’s series of “Billy” short stories, and they’ve released the resulting ebook as a free download:

In our never-ceasing quest to shock and enlighten … Continue reading →

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Rucker’s WARE books back in print — and free to download!!!11!ONE!

Posted on Monday, June 21, 2010 by author-unknown

Rudy Rucker’s seminal Ware cyberpunk novels (Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware) have been collected in a single volume from Prime Books, with an introduction by William Gibson. To celebrate, Rudy and Prime have released the full text of the boo… Continue reading →

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