Node Magazine and the Node tumblog are nearing completion with over 250 posts [including chapter summaries, quotes, location maps, pictures, etc.] leading up to official release day tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone who was very supportive of this project [about 100 hours of work over the past 42 days], especially Memetic Engineer and Warchalker.

Mr. Gibson himself had this to say:

"Someone's already named a Web site after NODE, the nonexistent magazine in 'Spook Country,' " [Gibson] said. "It's sort of scary." [Santa Cruz Sentinel]

and

"Someone has a website going where every single thing mentioned in Spook Country has a blog entry and usually an illustration so, every reference, someone has taken it, researched it and written a sort of little Wikipedia entry for it and all in the format of a website that pretends to be from a magazine called Node, which is an imaginary magazine, within Spook Country, and which turns out to be imaginary in the context of the narrative." [silicon.com]

Given the heavy spoiler nature of the tumblog in particular, I recommend checking this out after reading the book and would love to hear your comments and contributions.

Isn't enough that you have it your .sig ? It's not like you actually do anything to contribute here....

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Originally posted by martin:
Isn't enough that you have it your .sig ? It's not like you actually do anything to contribute here....

So, when I do try to contribute something of value, this is what I can expect?

What, continued hyping of your own little corner of the 'net?

edit: oh never mind....

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Originally posted by martin:
What, continued hyping of your own little corner of the 'net?

edit: oh never mind....

This William Gibson discussion board can be valuable and interesting, but it is also a very small corner of the internet. It has no monopoly on discussion and analysis of his writings, or the ideas which they stimulate.

I do not think that patternboy's posting in the "Spook Country *SPOILERS OK*" section is any less appropriate than a pointer to a mainstream media book review article.

These days it is not advisable to blindly follow minimalist links in signatures, without some idea of where you are heading, any more than it is to automatically open email attachments simply labelled "important" etc.

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Originally posted by martin:
What, continued hyping of your own little corner of the 'net?

edit: oh never mind....

I don't think the "net" has corners as such.

It is pervasive and all encompassing.

"Spooky" if you will.

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Originally posted by Memetic Engineer:

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Originally posted by martin:
What, continued hyping of your own little corner of the 'net?

edit: oh never mind....

This William Gibson discussion board can be valuable and interesting, but it is also a very small corner of the internet. It has no monopoly on discussion and analysis of his writings, or the ideas which they stimulate.

I do not think that patternboy's posting in the "Spook Country *SPOILERS OK*" section is any less appropriate than a pointer to a mainstream media book review article.

These days it is not advisable to blindly follow minimalist links in signatures, without some idea of where you are heading, any more than it is to automatically open email attachments simply labelled "important" etc.

Are you and PatternBoy the same virtual person?

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Originally posted by UberDog:
Are you and PatternBoy the same virtual person?

It should be fairly obvious that we are not.

Would it really make any difference if we were ?

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Originally posted by Memetic Engineer:

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Originally posted by UberDog:
Are you and PatternBoy the same virtual person?

It should be fairly obvious that we are not.

Would it really make any difference if we were ?

I owuld think it might to you.

The NODE metazine has this great article on a radical fringe LDS offshoot cult in the Porthill, Idaho area. That is a particularly beautiful but eerily stark transition zone between the majestic Rocky mountain grandeur of the Purcell trench/Purcell mountains of the north Idaho panhandle, and the serene Big Valley spread of Creston, BC.

Intended or not, it is an aesthetically perfect place for a crazy church that launders money for the likes of Spook's Brown Shits. Beautiful but creepy.

As for the Node startup being discussed, the only sensible thing to do is take it seriously. Pretend we're all Cayces, Hollises, and a neural section of that which is Hubertus Bigend.

It's not as if Wired doesn't deserve the competition. (Still pissed, after all these years, at the demise of MONDO 2000, even if it *did* bring it on itself. I discovered Gibson through an article in MONDO.)

We have eminent qualifications: many, perhaps most of us haven't a clue.

P.S. Not to mention that Gib said the existence of this quasi-real Node is "sort of scary". What better endorsement could we want?

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I don't think the "net" has corners as such.

It is pervasive and all encompassing.

And a thing so pervasive and all-encompassing should include corners, n'est ce pas?

Or, as k.d.lang once said:

"The next dance is a circle square."

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Originally posted by kenmeer livermaile:
I discovered Gibson through an article in MONDO.)

Me too. Wow. Went out and bought Burning Chrome after reading the article. Do you have a PDF of the magazine or article by chance?

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Me too. Wow. Went out and bought Burning Chrome after reading the article. Do you have a PDF of the magazine or article by chance?

Nope. All I got is the wiki article.

I've still got the Mondo 2000 with his interview Re: Idoru. Could scan it in, if I have time... or can find it...

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Originally posted by Memetic Engineer:
These days it is not advisable to blindly follow minimalist links in signatures, without some idea of where you are heading, any more than it is to automatically open email attachments simply labelled "important" etc.

And yet, you have links in your sig.

Spooky.

Spook Country Locative Books

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/books_in_google.html

Put that in your magazine.

Ignore the keyboard warrior, patternBoy. Some of us are grateful.