In the excelent novel “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson one of the characters, Raven, gets a tatto with the phrase “Poor impulse Control” in his forehead, an indication that he has been arrested for committing a violent crime. Here’s a little excerpt: Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under …
Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic, frightening vision of the future where firemen don’t put out fires —they start them in order to burn books. The Bradbury classic envisions a society where books are forbidden, free thought and intellectualism discouraged and questioning authority can get you killed (Any parallels with today’s society?). The title …
This is a t-shirt design based on a proposal from one of the facebook fans of memetic tees and related to The Selfish Gene, a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976. Dawkins coined the term “selfish gene” as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution as opposed to the views …
Based on a watch with an initial concept that had the Predator in mind it looks like fueled by a Thaesium cell. It would be nice that it could really have a glow like that. More info (via): ablogtoread
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This is the title of an essay by Neal Stephenson published online in 1999. From the Wikipedia: “The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software. It also analyzes the corporate/collective culture of the Microsoft, Macintosh, and free …
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When I designed the Chatsubo Bar T-shirt back in 2008, I couldn’t have imagined that someday Mr. William Gibson would see one of them. My jaw dropped when I saw this picture posted to my Facebook wall by Blake wearing his Chatsubo Bar T-shirt at a reading of Mr. Gibson at the University of Calgary …
This is real geek stuff. T-shirts based on the fictitious company Tessier-Ashpool S.A. from the book Neuromancer by William Gibson. Unlike other designs on Memetic Tees, the idea here wasn’t to create a striking logo but a serious corporate image that would serve as a base for the shirts of the company and its various …
“With his deck waiting, back in the loft, an Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7. They’d left the place littered with the abstract white forms of the foam packing units, with crumpled plastic film and hundreds of tiny foam beads. The Ono-Sendai; next year’s most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a …
