There are quite a few ways to keep your laptop scratch free. Some choose to stylishly cover their laptop with stickers, while others give their mobile computer a “second skin” with a sleeve. Advantage of a sleeve: you definitely will keep your laptop snug and protected against bumps and scratches (also increasing the re-sell value). Disadvantage: you really can’t express your personality with a store-bought sleeve. But, not so with memetic sleeves! And this month that’s possible at an especially low price (it really doesn’t get lower than this).

To take advantage of this promotion, you must add your desired Netbook or laptop sleeve. Only when one of the netbook or laptop sleeves is added to the basket, will you be able to use the coupon code.

The coupon codes FREESLEEVE (for the U.S. and Europe) or CADFREESLEEVE (for Canada) are valid from September 6th through October 1st, 2010.

Only one sleeve per order, but during the promotion period, the regular price of sleeves will drop to $16/16€ !!!

H+ is used  to refer to “Transhumanism” and is often used as a synonym for “human enhancement”.

A Transhuman enhances himself with the aid of  nanotechnology, implants, genetic engineering, AI, mind uploading… The final stage of a transhuman,  the posthuman, is a being “whose basic capacities so radically exceed those of present humans as to be no longer unambiguously human by our current standards.”

Both designs have versions printed on black and navy.

‘What is a human being, then?’
‘A seed.”
A… seed?’
‘An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree’

David Zindell, The Broken God

Available in USA and Europe.

I couldn’t resist to make a  T-shirt with a “Glow in the dark” design that tells that you are also hardwired.

It’s a good name for a cyberpunk novel but it can also have some other connotations related to the way our brain works in many aspects, so this could also have been in the Science section. I have drafts for a more elaborate typography but so far I have followed the line of Neuromancer and wintermute for a readable and elegant shirt. Over time I may add an alternative design but not by now.

It’s already available in the shop (USA and Europe).

Enter coupon code NOSLEEVES (for the U.S.) or CADNOSLEEVES (for Canada) during check-out. No minimum basket size is required. The sleeveless coupon is valid until 27 August 2010.

From July 30th thru August 1st, 2010 – FREE standard shipping  (Canadian orders will receive a shipping discount up to $9.50) Simply enter the coupon code FREEWEEKEND (for the U.S.) or CADFREEWEEKEND (for Canada) in the check-out area of your basket and save!

The other day I was thinking about it while walking and I had a spark of inspiration: Wintermute was programmed by the Tessier-Ashpool dynasty with a need to merge with its other half: Neuromancer. Finally, Wintermute unites with Neuromancer, fusing into a greater entity.
Suddenly I realized that they didn’t need to have different designs. Now I can picture myself with a partner hanging around with both t-shirts.
Neuromancer and Wintermute have the same essence, they are two complementary AIs destinated to be a goodlike AI when they merge.

The shirt is already in the shop.

This is a video of neuromancer T-shirt whith the lights off. I’ll try to make another as in this one it doesn’t look as bright as it is.

I’m trying to discover what happened. Meanwhile, here’s how it works:

The coupon is valid for US and Canada.

Simply pick a number of tees or other product to reach $40,  that can be just 2 t-shirts, at least one regular fit ($18) and one AA ($22.95) , then add the Messenger bag to the basket and enter the coupon code when going through checkout.

I’m very sorry, maybe it wasn’t clear enough. By now I have put the explanation in the banner. If anybody did a $40 order but didn’t add the bag,  just cancel the order.

Do not hesitate to contact me for whatever.

UPDATE: The problem was with trying to apply the coupon without adding the bag first.

It was named by Time Magazine as one of the ten best novels of 2009.

“Bacigalupi is a worthy successor to William Gibson: This is cyberpunk without computers.”
–Time Magazine, Best Books of 2009

“It’s ridiculous how good this book is… Bacigalupi’s vision is almost as rich and shocking as William Gibson’s vision was in 1984… I hope he writes 10 sequels.”
–Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians

An excerpt from Night Shade Books:

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko…

Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.

What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism’s genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.

I’m already waiting for it to arrive!

During this time the regular price of $24 for the messenger bag alone will drop to $19.99 ($4 off).