After the hype Nov 21, 2009
BBC News - What happened to Second Life. Page last updated at 11:22 GMT, Friday, 20 November 2009. (BBC News -- UK)
illustrations of New Yorks demise Nov 18, 2009
Looks like something William Gibson might have dreamed up. Very cool. (Harper's Magazine)
Innovator and writer looks ahead - with caution Nov 16, 2009
Members have included science fiction author William Gibson and musician Peter Gabriel. At GBN, Schwartz says Brand is distinguished by his capacity to ask the right questions. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Must-Read Science Fiction Books for... Nov 14, 2009
Neuromancer by William Gibson (Ace, 1984, ISBN 0441569595). This original novel popularized the cyberpunk genre. (Suite101.com)
Abigail Breslin to play Helen Keller on Bway Oct 29, 2009
Abigail Breslin will play Helen Keller in the first Broadway revival of William Gibson s The Miracle Worker, scheduled to open on March 3, producer David Richenthal announced Wednesday. Previews begin Feb. 12 at Circle in the Square Theatre. (KHOU.com, TX)
Borlaug, who saved millions from hunger, dies Sep 15, 2009
He is survived by daughter Jeanie Borlaug Laube and her husband Rex; son William Gibson Borlaug and his wife Barbie; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. . (USA Today -- Tech)
Norman Borlaug, India's 'annadaata', dies at 95 Sep 14, 2009
He is survived by daughter Jeanie Borlaug Laube and her husband Rex, son William Gibson Borlaug and his wife Barbie, five grandchildren and six great grandchildren. More Stories from this section. (India Times, India)
Norman Borlaug; Peace Prize winner helped feed the world Sep 14, 2009
He leaves a daughter, Jeanie Borlaug Laube; a son, William Gibson Borlaug; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
61 postmodern reads Jul 25, 2009
Also, where are Angela Carter, Ishmael Reed, Gunter Grass, Salman Rushdie, William Gibson and Samuel Delaney, amongst others. Posted by: Darran. (Harper's Magazine)
Letters for Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (1234) Jul 24, 2009
I would just like to thank the chef, Martian Hilldorfer, and the other Instructors, Bonnie Honma and William Gibson, for the opportunity to take the class and for being so nice. I d also like to thank them for teaching me so much things that I will use and remember everyday. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Google vs. Microsoft: Haven't we seen this movie? Jul 10, 2009
" He sees an implicit contradiction between simultaneously attempting to revive fish runs by getting rid of dams and lowering greenhouse gas emissions by promoting renewable energy.I think most environmentalists (not to mention salmon fishermen or salmon consumers) would deny that these impulses are contradictory. There may be a short-term negative trade-off, but the same underlying principle undergirds both the effort to ensure healthy wild salmon fish runs and a decrease in greenhouse gas... (Salon)
Michael Lewis tilts his lance at AIG Jul 8, 2009
Meet Sergey Aleynikov, a character ripped straight from the pages of a classic William Gibson novel: competitive ballroom dancer, computer programmer, free-software enthusiast, Russian emigrant to the U.S. and former employee of Goldman Sachs. On July 3, a month after quitting his $400,000 Goldman job to work for a Chicago firm at three times the salary, Aleynikov was arrested on charges of illegally stealing proprietary automated stock-trading software from his employer and uploading it to a... (Salon)
Berkeley Rep director heads to Broadway. Again. Jul 3, 2009
Before that, I read Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up," his memoir about being a stand-up comic, and "Spook Country" by William Gibson. He's a great science fiction writer. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Kathryn Bigelow filmography Jun 28, 2009
Strange Days (1995) A sci-fi epic set on the eve of Y2K, this underappreciated drama of ideas plays like the movie cyberpunk guru William Gibson never wrote. The Weight of Water (2000) Bigelow goes art-house with a flawed but fascinating double tale of 19th-century murder and 20th-century investigation. (Boston Globe)
'Sleep Dealer' is a clever sci-fi film that drones on in a good way May 15, 2009
The film harbors a kind of contempt for oppressive government policy and mourns the corrosive consequences of capitalism in a way that aligns with the worlds of Philip K. Dick and William Gibson. This is to say Rivera has vision. (Boston Globe)
Country profile: Singapore May 8, 2009
The country was referred to - less kindly - by the writer William Gibson as "Disneyland with the death penalty". Singapore argues that its use of capital punishment - applied mostly for drugs trafficking offences - has stopped the growth of narcotics syndicates. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Spotted®: The focus is on you! Apr 18, 2009
Desiree Abrams, Nancy Bagley, Bryan Bardash, Angela Baumgartner, Betsy Blount, Jessica Brown, Mark Brown, David Campbell, Angelina Cantrell, Bryne Carter, Jennifer Carter, Andrea Davidson, Ashley Dawson, Kelvin Easley, Apollonia Favors, Serra Ferguson, Suzanne Fiorentino, William Freeman, Evan Fuller, Blair Funderburk, Cheri Griffin, Chanell Gary, Hayley Gennuso, William Gibson, Beth Goldner, Kayante Gresham, Summer Griffeth, Cary Handy, Stephanie Hardigree, Vanessa Heath, Harrell Higgins, Evan... (Athens Banner-Herald)
McDowell fourth-graders, 1934 Mar 17, 2009
fifth row: Henry Martin Puryear, unknown, Robert St. Clair, Bill Rainey and Wallace Richardson; sixth row: Joe Frank Wilkes, principal, Lewis Love, Ray Johnson, John A. Harris, unknown, unknown, William Gibson and Miss Lulu Wright, teacher; top row: Charles Hendly, unknown, William Pullen, Loyd Riddle, David Whitson and Jack Finney. Photo courtesy of Jean Burt. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Prophet and loss Mar 14, 2009
Along with writers such as William Gibson and Pat Cadigan, he drove the take-up of the cyberpunk literary genre which both fomented and predicted contemporary society's heady mix of technology and culture. But he is worried that his novel-writing days may soon be at an end. (BBC News -- Technology)
App-A-Day: TextOnPhone Mar 7, 2009
You can find among TextOnPhone's catalog such notable authors as William Gibson, Robert Ludlum, J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King. There's also a book-talk forum, and you can cruise sections where readers upload their own reading lists for you to peruse. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
'To Kill a Mockingbird' coming to NIACC Feb 8, 2009
Recent highly successful tours have included Lost in Yonkers, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Trip to Bountiful and Steel Magnolias and past seasons have included works by Tennessee Williams, Wendy Wasserstein, Neil Simon, Arthur Miller, Eugene O Neill, Horton Foote, Ken Ludwig and William Gibson. For tickets to the performance of To Kill a Mockingbird , call the NIACC Box Office at 888-466-4222, ext. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Jacking into the Brain--Is the Brain the Ultimate Computer Interface? Feb 7, 2009
The cyberpunk science fiction that emerged in the 1980s routinely paraded neural implants for hooking a computing device directly to the brain: I had hundreds of megabytes stashed in my head, proclaimed the protagonist of Johnny Mnemonic, a William Gibson story that later became a wholly forgettable movie starring Keanu Reeves. The genius of the then emergent genre (back in the days when a megabyte could still wow) was its juxtaposition of low-life retro culture with technology that seemed only... (Scientific American)
