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Link Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time…
This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can…

July 6 2009, 9:37am | Comments
Link Michael Jackson's patented "Smooth Criminal" leaning shoes
Patent number 5255452, filed in 1992, shows how Michael Jackson and his dancers could lean at 45-degree angles during live performances of the song "Smooth Criminal". 1. A system for…

June 27 2009, 4:38am | Comments
Link NASA moon bombing violates space law & may…
The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep…

June 23 2009, 1:39am | Comments
Link Dual Perspectives Article
Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was…

June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments
Link Immortal Information
For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount…

June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments
Link Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source…
The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this…

May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments
Link Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories…
The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront…

May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments
Link The disembodied book
In the shadows of the global financial crisis of the early 21st century, another revolution is gathering pace, whose repercussions reach far beyond the current correctable economic buckling. It impact…

May 17 2009, 3:24am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments
Link MachineAnimalCollages
Fantastic meat landscapes and animals made of machinery

May 5 2009, 1:02am | Comments
Link Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever…
Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision…

March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Link Michel Serres: Journals/Articles
Writings about author, Michel Serres

March 11 2009, 10:45am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image
A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements…

February 23 2009, 8:07am | Comments
Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of…

February 16 2009, 8:09am | Comments
Link Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic
I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming…

February 2 2009, 5:58pm | Comments
Link Simon Biggs
Website and interactive portfolio of artist

January 30 2009, 9:02am | Comments
Writing for Spacecollective How Things Become: The Infinity of Definition
The perceiver's position in an architectural, or merely physical space, determines the dimensional imperatives of that person's mental qualia. It is interesting to note…

December 29 2008, 11:47am | Comments
Metafilter The phenomenology of text The phenomenology / ontology of text: has anyone examined this issue directly in philosophical, literary and/or critical terms? I am interested in the experience and perception of text,…

September 18 2008, 8:21am | Comments
Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests…

April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments
Metafilter The Simulacrisation of Technology into Life As the Pentagon ousts plans to turn insects into cyber war machines you'd be forgiven for asking the question: Where does the real digital end and the faked…

March 15 2006, 9:09pm | Comments
Link The ancient cloud
The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all.…

December 31 1969, 5:00pm | Comments

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