Week 34

06.24.02

A state-authorized Iranian rock concert. Let's boogie down to some Hendrix and Satriani licks in the Axis of Evil.

http://www.iranian.com/Music/2002/June/
Rock/index.html

They're bloggin' their hijab-ed heads off, too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/
newsid_2044000/2044802.stm

06.25.02

I just can't resist pontificating in German webzines.

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/
12707/1.html

Speaking of self-indulgent gestures, check out the diary of Rudy Rucker's new SF novel. Carries Ruckerian transrealism to new heights.

http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/
spacelandnotes.htm

Like the Bolognese always say, "CYBERPUNK E' UN ATTITUDINE."

http://www.hackmeeting.org/index.en.html

Isole Nella Rete

http://www.ecn.org

Autistici.org

http://www.autistici.org

Inventati.org

http://www.inventati.org

Tactical Media Crew

http://www.tcmrew.org

Kyuzz.org

http://www.kyuzz.org

Ecn Bologna

http://www.ecn.org/bologna

Tpo

http://www.ecn.org/tpo

Strano Network

http://strano.net

Freaknet Media Lab

http://www.freaknet.org

Dyne.org

http://dyne.org

Sikurezza.org

http://www.sikurezza.org

Decoder

http://www.decoder.it

Avana

http://avana.forteprenestino.net

06.26.02

There's a brave little cabal struggling to bring 21*C magazine back to life. I sure hope they make it: I loved that magazine dearly.

http://www.21cmagazine.com/about.html

Who else would run articles on Amish kids wiped out on drugs and heavy metal?

http://www.21cmagazine.com/
devils_playground.html

06.27.02

Okay, check this notion out: the Earth's magnetic field is generated by nuclear power — from a giant ball of uranium at the center of the Earth's core.

http://www.upi.com/
view.cfm?StoryID=31052002-035631-9966r

06.28.02

They're French and they work in Japan. Otherwise everybody in the world would have heard of them — and would probably worship them, because they are insanely cool.

http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/~christa/WORKS/

Bruce Sterling is a science-fiction writer who lives in Texas. The sun is a G-type star out towards the edge of the Milky Way.