William Gibson's Blog en-US Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:14:01 -0800 60 William Gibson's Blog 144 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo_144.jpg /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/119922-my-poor-old-blog-s-just-sitting-here Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:14:01 -0800 <![CDATA[MY POOR OLD BLOG'S JUST SITTING HERE...]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/119922-my-poor-old-blog-s-just-sitting-here
Meanwhile, however, try this:

@GreatDismal

I really do find microblogging congenial (not to mention collegial) and most of what I was doing here, before, was exactly that.

posted by William Gibson on December, 21 ]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/107800-duncan-jones-moon Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:53:49 -0800 <![CDATA[DUNCAN JONES' MOON]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/107800-duncan-jones-moon

posted by William Gibson on November, 12 ]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/103763-our-quotidian-aleph Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:45:01 -0700 <![CDATA[OUR QUOTIDIAN ALEPH]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/103763-our-quotidian-aleph
Simultaneously profoundly amazing and definitively boring:
PingWire

Because you can't step in the same river twice.

posted by William Gibson on July, 26 ]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/101904-good-thing-i-m-not-an-academic Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:47:07 -0800 <![CDATA[GOOD THING I'M NOT AN ACADEMIC]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/101904-good-thing-i-m-not-an-academic
posted by William Gibson on November, 17 ]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/97923-query-re-the-authoritarian-s-favorite-orwell-quote Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:56:37 -0800 <![CDATA[QUERY: RE THE AUTHORITARIAN'S FAVORITE ORWELL QUOTE]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/97923-query-re-the-authoritarian-s-favorite-orwell-quote
Often this is given as "Good people..."

I have been unable to source this back to a specific piece of GO's prose. Have encountered the opinion that it is not an actual GO quotation.

Can anyone help? Thanks.

posted by William Gibson on November, 01 ]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/75965-whole-theory-of-beautiful-language Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:14:42 -0700 <![CDATA[WHOLE THEORY OF BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/75965-whole-theory-of-beautiful-language
posted by William Gibson on July, 10 ]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/74119-lawful-intercept-functionality Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:18:40 -0700 <![CDATA["LAWFUL INTERCEPT FUNCTIONALITY"]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/74119-lawful-intercept-functionality Nokia Siemens Networks on the job in Iran.

posted by William Gibson on August, 10 ]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/71380-franz-kafka-men-s-outerwear-designer Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:34:04 -0700 <![CDATA[FRANZ KAFKA, MEN'S OUTERWEAR DESIGNER]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/71380-franz-kafka-men-s-outerwear-designer
"Who are you?" asked K., sitting half upright in his bed.

--The Trial

posted by William Gibson on June, 25 ]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/64113-festo-air-jelly Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:46:33 -0700 <![CDATA[FESTO AIR JELLY]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/64113-festo-air-jelly Festo .

posted by William Gibson on August, 17 ]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/58893-civilization Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:15:51 -0700 <![CDATA[CIVILIZATION]]> /author/show/9226.William_Gibson/blog/58893-civilization The Standard . Stuff's finally starting to look like the 21st Century. Next, your shower curtain.

posted by William Gibson on June, 17 ]]>