Boing Boing interviews author William Gibson

Interview with game designer Jane McGonigal.

DJ and producer Michael Donaldson, aka Q-Burns Abstract Message, joins BoingBoing.net’s Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, Cory Doctorow, and Xeni Jardin.

Last week, I posted an entry on Boing Boing about my daughter’s school field trip to the California State Capitol, where she and her classmates met with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor handed out small color photographs of himself to the students. When my daughter returned home, she showed me the photo and I noticed a sticker on the back with a warning not to use the photograph for any purpose besides personal enjoyment by the recipient. I thought it would be fun to post a reproduction of the sticker on Boing Boing and invite readers to impersonate the governor reciting the warning. Within 24 hours, nearly 100 people called the Boing Boing hotline to give their impersonation. Every one of these people did a much better job of impersonating the governor than I could have done. In fact, they did a better job that the governor himself could have done. It was hard to pick a winner, but I finally settled on Matt Plumb, who not only did a first-rate job of impersonating Gover...

Danger Room blogger Noah Shachtman interviewed by Xeni Jardin and Cary Doctorow of Boing Boing