OK, I think that this pretty interesting and really had to sit back and really marvel at the fact that this was a book group meeting in The Readers Garden on Info Island within Second Life to discuss Snow Crash. I mean WOW. Here is a group getting together to discuss a book that influenced, if not directly inspired, the very place in which they are meeting in…heavy, huh. Anyway here is the link to a blog with all the details if your interested.
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OK this is REALLY old news but still kind of funny (sad funny) here is a good excuse to post a youtube clip, of TSS Leo LaPorte and Martin Sargent exploring a story from adequacy.org that details 10 WARNING SIGNS that your child is an evil HACKER! And number 4 is the presence of Hacking Manuals (wouldn’t it be a good thing if your child had and had read all of these books?…) the first ones listed are Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, by the infamous Neal Stephenson. But there are other great books listed too, that might be of interest if you have not read them all ready.
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OK, I have to admit that I read Little Brother in a day, loved it! But I have tried to think of why I wanted to post something here (it’s a bit off topic huh?) and I finally found this. I knew that something was reminescent of Stephenson, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Was this is the reason? Someone else thinks that there is a connection there too, maybe I was on to something. It was certainly a good way to pass the time waiting for Anathem.
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