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Today’s Show: Utilities, Spyware, Virii, William Gibson, Hackers, Literature, Culture, Identity, Linux, Levity, Music

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Tonight’s show is a bit of a deviation from the normal show. We talk about some heady topics, such as Race relations online, we delve into Linux as a tool for educators, and we dig into some really useful utilities that you may want to consider for your PC. Overall I hope this show ends up being very useful to you.

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Tags: Culture, Hackers, Identity, Levity, Linux, Literature, Matthew Ebel, Music, Santa Claus, software, Spyware, tips, Utilities, Virii, William Gibson

We have had so many articles of late on Steampunk, and the design elements that make a good Steampunk piece. So I figured I’d take a step further back into my life and showcase another design aesthetic / culture, cyberpunk. Back in the mid 90′s I was introduced to a certain sub-genre of science fiction now know as Cyberpunk, through one of the forerunners of the genre William Gibson‘s Nueromancer. Take the essence of punk music and the futureistic world of Issac Asimov and when you meld them together you get a bright and shining future of technolust with society degrading around it. A despair and a wonder all wrapped up in the same story.  Who is William Gibson? He invented the term Cyberspace, spawned a sub genre of fiction and started to build the framework for the cyberpunk aesthetic. He is also probably one of my favorite authors. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Steampunk, William Gibson