Have you checked out the software, Zulupad?

It's basically a Notepad replacement, with the deviancy of a wiki. It allows you to do, basically, what you did with the links. But if you take one of his new entries and paste it into a page, any references in the text (character names, etc...) will hotlink to other reference s of that text.

Kind of a cool, extendable, searchable, information array.

not familiar with it. but it sounds curious. sounds like something i could be testing out. thanks for the tip.

I just like the word apophenia alot. Oh no, I'm one of those people now. The ones that like a word and keep using it in the wrong context and distort the meaning ack!

I'm going to end up buying their new album now remote. Can't pass up a band that puts forth Techarí (according to ODB bio means "free" in Caló)

The Caló is very interesting. Neat about influencing cultures through viral languages whether the people emigrate there or not,JRE.

I'll definitely check out the Zulupad.

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i picked up bari first. techari probably isn't vastly different, which will be why i have a slight preference for bari. though there are a couple of various editions of techari, one over sized with extra art, and both that i've seen with a second disc with videos on it. got a feeling its cd-rom rather than dvd unfortunately. actually caught them on tv one night - jool's holland - there were about a dozen of them on stage and they had a good energy. another band in a similar vein, though polish, the warsaw village band - mix of traditional polish folk music, with a more contemporary and electronic influence throughout.

Cool. I'm going to go look on YouTube.

does monument count as an extract or an abstract? well i'll list the updates anyway.

• CALCULABLE GEOMETRIES


• MONUMENT

calculable geometry. damn. i guess that brings us back to the old spatial concepts and interzones, and the idea of an enviroment as a thing.

Anyone else get the impression Ososhi isn't physically there? Or is that obvious?

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Anyone else get the impression Ososhi isn't physically there? Or is that obvious?

yeah i got the spirit impression from that reference. i can't recall whether the name has come up before, but i have a sense it has and got that impression then as well.

Could be physical and spiritual presense. Some type of statue or symbol in a pack over his shoulder. Might have been spotted in an act of worship. Possibly sacrificial in the park. But either way Oshosi is a perfect presense for those being hunted or hunting.

Ah, right, so Oshosi (also Osooshi) is the god of hunting in various pantheons. A quick google would have cleared that up. I guess Eric's right; the god could be present figuratively/spiritually or in an icon.

I'm leaning towards the spirit presence.

Here's a neat little panorama of Union Square Park. After seeing that, I'm leaning toward just spiritual too. Probably not private enough to be doing any sacrificial worship.

Hm. Yes. Looks like it would be rather difficult to lose anyone in that.

UNION SQUARE

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Once again I bring you news of a book coming out next year that you can't order yet: William Gibson's next novel, his first since 2003's Pattern Recognition, is likely to come out in the middle of next year, we hear from his publisher. In this case, though, you can read a few bits of it, as Gibson's been posting short, unexplained sections from the work in progress on his blog a few times a month since January. One thing that's clear, from what he's posted: the novel, like Pattern Recognition, is set in the present, but a present that has caught up with (and often surpassed) Gibson's near-future imagination in his earlier books. It's also clear that he pays attention to his readers: already he's changed the name of a character mentioned in one of the excerpts after readers reminded him that he's used the name "Bunny" twice before.

Gibson's the kind of writer who has FANS; I'm just a small-f fan, who liked the fabled Neuromancer but only really fell in love with Pattern Recognition (which I picked as the best fiction of the year back when I was an editor on our Canadian site). Ever since I've wanted to go back to some of the books in between. Where should I start, Gibsonians? --Tom, Books Editor


This awaited me when I logged into Amazon today

Here

Reading the comments, he seems to have settled on Idoru, which is a pretty popular sentiment around here, too, if I recall correctly.

Parties is mine, but that is because I identify too well with Rydell.

I think the cameos in _Idoru_ and _ATP_ come off a lot better if you met the characters along the way.

If I had to pick one book I would read Idoru. Otherwise I would start with Virtual Light.

It seems to me that WG is very much reenacting the Sprawl Trilogy again. not in-so0far as plot and theme are concerned but rather in structure. We move from PR, having only Cayce's viewpoint to the new book which has three viewpoints. Just as we went from Case in Neuro to the three viewpoints of Bobby, Marly and Turner in CZ.

It's almost as if WG is cleansing that old cyberpunk gene from his system by tackling modernity (and very possibly futurity--as WG has stated that today is more sci-fi than sci fi)by revisiting the first go-round in a structual manner. Not to mention that obscure religion grafted onto the armature of urabnity also pops up in these tantalising fractals he offers...

Now is this a conscious choice? Does our friend mean to address those culture defining books? Is this some sort of meta reference to his previous renown and the world which he then spun, now so very far removed from the actual future we inhabit?

It will be most interesting to see.