[PLUG-TALK] Charlie Stross at Powells Portland Thursday October 11

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Two weeks from now, programmer, Perl hacker, Linux fan, and currently
> science fiction author Charlie Stross ...

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:04:31AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   What's the connection between science fiction and linux? Does one cause
> the other? This is the second notice you've posted this morning.

Well, both talks are in the new Powells event calendar, hence the 
timing.  Both (mostly fantasy, not SF) authors have a strong connection
to Linux.  In fact, Charlie will be most of his time in the northwest
in discussions with Yahoo and Google.  Read the suggested excerpt from
The Atrocity Archives - the hacking of the Linux box occurs on page 2.

As both authors indirectly point out, a computer program is just a
magic spell that frequently works, but often calls forth dark forces
unintentionally.  And most of the dotcom business plans of a decade
ago were poorly written fantasy ...

Keith

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