Jono decided to map all the locales mentioned in Little Brother, using Google’s Keyhole — he’s not a San Francisco native, though, and wants help from you all with his way-points (they look pretty good to me!).
Link,
Link to Google Map display of Little Brother landmarks,
(Thanks, Jono!)
I’m in San Francisco now, on my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother. Today, I’m at Cody’s Books and Dark Carnival in Berkeley, and tomorrow I’m at the Los Altos Library Main Branch and Borderlands Books in San Francisco. Hope you’ll make it!
Dark Carnival, Berkeley, CA
3086 Claremont Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94706
(510) 654-7232Wednesday, May 21, 2008
5:30 pmCody’s Books Inc., Berkeley, CA
2201 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
7:00 pm
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I’m in San Francisco now, on my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother. Today, I’m at Cody’s Books and Dark Carnival in Berkeley, and tomorrow I’m at the Los Altos Library Main Branch and Borderlands Books in San Francisco. Hope you’ll make it!
Dark Carnival, Berkeley, CA
3086 Claremont Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94706
(510) 654-7232Wednesday, May 21, 2008
5:30 pmCody’s Books Inc., Berkeley, CA
2201 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
7:00 pm
Brand Gamblin was inspired by Little Brother to make this WE MAY BE YOUNG, WE MAY BE DUMB, BUT WE AREN’T SCUM tee with Zazzle. How cool!
My latest Guardian column just went live, on the security risks of the failure to grasp the statistics of rare events:
This is the same calculus that allows the fear of terrorism to take away our liberty: the statistically super-rare terrorist attacks present, on average, a much lower risk to our health, safety and person than, say, depriving us of our liquid medications, or of requiring us to leave our bags unlocked in flight so that sticky-fingered handlers can make off with our laptops and financial data and valuables.
The everyday threat of having our goods stolen, our ability to travel and earn our livings curtailed, and our personal information harvested by every junior terrorist fighter who wants to see your ID before letting you do anything is overshadowed by the one-in-a-billion confluence of someone with terrorist goals, the means to accomplish them, and the intelligence to bring them off (hint: you can’t really blow up an airplane with hair-gel and iPods).
This is my last day on the Seattle leg of my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother. I’m at Third Place Books at 7PM tonight, Tomorrow, it’s the Bay Area, with an appearance at Cody’s Books and Dark Carnival in Berkeley — hope you can make it!
Third Place Books, Seattle WA6504 20th Avenue, NE
Seattle, WA
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
7:00 pm
We’ve just finalized the details for a second NYC appearance on my book tour for Little Brother. On Monday, May 26, I’ll be appearing at midtown’s Books of Wonder from 5-7 PM for a free reading/talk/signing, complete with cupcakes!
This is in addition to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit on the night of May 25 at Comix — hope to see you in New York!
We’ve just finalized the details for a second NYC appearance on my book tour for Little Brother. On Monday, May 26, I’ll be appearing at midtown’s Books of Wonder from 5-7 PM for a free reading/talk/signing, complete with cupcakes!
This is in addition to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit on the night of May 25 at Comix — hope to see you in New York!
Instructables has just posted the latest installment in its ongoing series of HOWTOs inspired by my young adult novel Little Brother. This week, they tackle the all-important skill of lying to authority figures.
There are certain tells that can give away that someone is lying. For instance, when my dad lies he gets all bug-eyed. In fact, many people do that.
To keep from giving yourself away the first thing you want to do is keep eye contact with the person you are talking to. Unless, you are one of those freaks that never make eye contact with anyone. Then, whatever you do, don’t make eye contact.
The best way to make eye contact is to focus on an imaginary spot somewhere to the left of their head around their left ear. This will seem like you are looking straight at them.
Keep a neutral and relaxed posture and don’t do anything that would make you seem nervous like shake or scratch your neck. I like to stay relaxed by singing Irish folk songs to myself. The kind of song that goes on and on and on.
