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• Metafilter Quality music/cinema receiver driving at least 130w for cheap? I need a new amplifier/receiver for music and TV/home-cinema. I've looked at the Onkyo "network" range, especially entry level around £350-£400, but I am sure I could get…

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• Tumblr GarJon

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• Instagram UFOs in the Albert Hall ceiling

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• Instapaper Human Societies Starting to Resemble Ant Colonies :…

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• Instagram Soba for lunch

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• Twitter Links Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain? | LiveScience

  Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain? : http://t.co/EmOiHNia #consciousness #error #mutation #evolution

  May 5 2012, 5:10am | Comments

• Link Reflecting the Past: Technology brings the ghosts of…

  "We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the…

  May 4 2012, 4:47am | Comments

• Link The animated history of the GIF

  The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections…

  May 4 2012, 4:45am | Comments

• Link Inheriting The Hoard

  “I knew as a kid I’d have to take care of it. I had prepared myself for it – for this moment,” Greg M., 41, says rather stoically of the…

  May 4 2012, 4:36am | Comments

• Link Psychology of Hoarding: Characteristics of a Hoarder

  Infographic on compulsive hoarding

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• Link Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

  In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of…

  May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Twitter

  Kipple my content

  

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• Link In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video…

  Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines…

  May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments

• Twitter

  superannuated cultural parasite

  

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• Video

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• Link Post-Digitalism and Contemporary Spanish Fiction

  Postdigital literature is not centered in code, but in addressing a reality shaped by a mix of coded/uncoded reality – German Sierra (german_sierra)

  April 30 2012, 10:48am | Comments

• Link The social cell

  A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a…

  April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Instapaper When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  It’s an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. Business models are being transformed, lives are being upended, vast new horizons of possibility opened up.…

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments

• Twitter

  (Quaint Materialism)

  

  April 27 2012, 1:14am | Comments

• Link Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet,…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Beware: The aggregator is collecting 'danger'

  

  April 26 2012, 5:02am | Comments

• Link Google explains how it searches the internet in…

  Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View’s head of web-spam, Matt Cutts,…

  April 25 2012, 4:49pm | Comments

• Link Can Artists Help Us Reboot Humanism in an…

  How does aesthetic experience fare in such an environment? Within art-tech circles, the buzz these days is about something called the “New Aesthetic,” a coinage of James Bridle, who launched…

  April 25 2012, 4:44pm | Comments

• Link Ian Bogost - Aliens, but definitely not as…

  IF WE really want to understand the nature of the universe, then we must accept two principles. First, everything is an alien to everything else. And second, the experience of…

  April 25 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of…

  “The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like…

  April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments

• Twitter

  names of things for which no words exist

  

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• Twitter

  "All shattered writing has the form of a key... All other life ceases in the life put into words." - Edmond Jabes

  

  April 24 2012, 6:50am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Is that a quotation?" I asked. "Of course. There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations."

  

  April 23 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "[H]umans are no longer monarchs of being, but are instead among beings, entangled in beings, & implicated in other beings." - Levi Bryant

  

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• Tumblr revelation2220: Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant...

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• Video

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• Link Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Major evolutionary trend in human beings

  

  April 22 2012, 1:03pm | Comments

• Twitter

  “My son has become fascinated with non-standard plurals"

  

  April 22 2012, 8:27am | Comments

• Twitter

  oligonucleotides

  

  April 21 2012, 5:46am | Comments

• Link Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of…

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Link Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use…

  April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments

• Link Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

• Link Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo

  The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic…

  April 20 2012, 12:28pm | Comments

• Twitter Links Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  The pine trees framing the entrance to the forest appear to be normal. Unremarkable. But the crackling dosimeter says otherwise. On this freezing February…

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

• Twitter

  Nuclear Tesuji

  

  April 20 2012, 2:17am | Comments

• Link What Is the "New Aesthetic"?

  The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but…

  April 19 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Twitter

  Pudding-like

  

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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
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• A Labyrinth (No Minotaur): Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show 2011
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• Thoughts on art practice PhDs
• And There It Was
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