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Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…
Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments
Metafilter The Library of Babel in 140 characters (or fewer) The universe (which others call The Twitter) is composed of every word in the English language; Shakespeare's folios, line-by-line-by-line; the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, exploded; Constantine XI, in 140 character chunks; Sun Tzu's Art of War, in its entirety; the chapter headings…

October 27 2012, 9:15am | Comments
Portfolio Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the ‘Die Hard’ Method

October 7 2012, 3:48pm | Comments
Bookmark How to Make Anything Signify Anything
It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from 1850,…

February 10 2011, 4:17pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments
Bookmark The Library in the New Age
Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What,…

October 31 2009, 5:19am | Comments

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