Lalacornpalooza

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corn festival, originally uploaded by andrewc.

I heard there was some sort of music festival in Chicago this weekend. I don’t know, something with that “rock” music the kids like? I went to the Corn Festival in my neighborhood instead, outside of an arts center where someone had planted corn along the side of their building. There was fresh grilled corn, rutabaga pie, and lemonaid for a dollar each. And those two dressed up like an ear of corn.

Wired Q&A with William Gibson on his new novel Spook Country

What shoes certain nerds will be wearing at the next comic con:

Wired: One of the details that leaped out at me was
the Adidas GSG9, named for the German counterterrorism squad. I felt
certain you’d invented the shoe, but then I Googled it.

Gibson: The
Adidas GSG9s were the obvious choice for the thinking man’s ninja.
Nothing I could make up could resonate in the same way. There’s code in name-checking the GSG9 history — esoteric meaning. Something that started with Pattern Recognition
was that I†discovered I could Google the world of the novel. I began to
regard it as a sort of extended text — hypertext pages hovering just
outside the printed page. There have been threads on my Web site —
readers Googling and finding my footprints. I still get people asking
me about "the possibilities of interactive fiction," and they seem to
have no clue how we’re already so there. — Wired Q&A with William Gibson on his new novel Spook Country

Wired Q&A with William Gibson on his new novel Spook Country

What shoes certain nerds will be wearing at the next comic con:

Wired: One of the details that leaped out at me was
the Adidas GSG9, named for the German counterterrorism squad. I felt
certain you’d invented the shoe, but then I Googled it.

Gibson: The
Adidas GSG9s were the obvious choice for the thinking man’s ninja.
Nothing I could make up could resonate in the same way. There’s code in name-checking the GSG9 history — esoteric meaning. Something that started with Pattern Recognition
was that I†discovered I could Google the world of the novel. I began to
regard it as a sort of extended text — hypertext pages hovering just
outside the printed page. There have been threads on my Web site —
readers Googling and finding my footprints. I still get people asking
me about "the possibilities of interactive fiction," and they seem to
have no clue how we’re already so there. — Wired Q&A with William Gibson on his new novel Spook Country