@NetMassimo Spider has a website which he updates glacially: The Brains of a Spider. http://www.spiderrobinson.com/blog.html

#SpiderRobinson

Spider Robinson: Blog

God I miss Spider Robinson's SF, but he has a really good post up at the top of his blog at the moment.

#SpiderRobinson #SF #SciFi #Writing

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/blog.html

Spider Robinson: Blog

@tewha Anybody who quotes #SpiderRobinson in their profile is getting a follow request from me! Bonus points for Callahan's Cross-time Saloon series.
It has been more than a decade since Spider Robinson last released an episode of his Spider on the Web podcast, but tonight I enjoyed hearing his voice again as I relistened to a couple favourite episodes with speculative fiction delights and music he is unfailingly passionate about.

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/podcast.html

#podcasts #SpiderRobinson
Spider Robinson: Spider on the Web

Dell To Techs: Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware - Slashdot

Alien54 writes "Well, more exactly, be advised that if you are giving a Dell for Xmas, not only will it probably come preloaded with spyware, but their tech support lines will refuse to tell users how to remove it, and will not give people advice on where to find some good tools to remove it. As se...

75 urodziny Spidera Robinsona – Fahrenheit

75 lat temu - 24 listopada 1948 roku w Nowym Jorku - przyszedł na świat Spider Robinson.

Fahrenheit
Ignore That Logo Under the Tape! - WSJ

Organizers Stick to the Job of Hiding Companies That Aren't Official Sponsors

WSJ
@petergleick
… and suddenly the huge, hitherto completely inert statue rose from its lotus position to its full standing height, cupped its chiseled chin in its right hand, paused for a moment, and stated in a stentorian voice, “IT ISN’T.” And, having delivered its reply, immediately sat down again.
#SpiderRobinson

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My first exposure was my dad and his TV prefs. After that, it was voracious reading (was grounded from books and sent outside many times).

It's been a series of ascents and summits. Too many librarians to count got me onto an author. Those authors got me onto new authors, and so on... (Many thanks to anthology mags, @GreatDismal, #SpiderRobinson, Dick, Clarke and others).

Many friends like @matthew_fells expanded the range of my SciFi.

#secretSciFiNetwork

All that's it's accomplished is to make it harder to create without taking terms from a giant corporation, whose terms inevitably include forcing you to trade all your IP away to them. That's something that #SpiderRobinson prophesied in his Hugo-winning 1982 story, #MelancholyElephants:

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html

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Spider Robinson: Melancholy Elephants