Linkdump for September 10th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
at abitgone+ (via DF)
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at DHTML Kitchen—if you can get past the implied "frameworks/libraries are always bad and you're an idiot for using them" attitude, there is some interesting discussion in there about JavaScript-based DOM querying engines.
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via Matt Bindoff
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William Gibson interviewed at Wired.com:
It certainly has been a post-9/11 concept for me. Before I started writing science fiction, my theory was that every fictive, imagined future can only be understood historically within the moment it was written. Because nobody really writes about the future. All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That’s why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store. It’s going to almost immediately acquire a patina of quaintness; that’s just part of what imagining the future in fiction is about.
The words that every author (scifi or otherwise) wants to hear; and loathes to hear. Damn but this man is probably more relevant than ever.
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