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July 15 2011, 4:47am | Comments
Bookmark How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History
On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments
Bookmark Content For Users on the Move
What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind that…

July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
The Monster Ate Vegetables

July 13 2011, 2:26am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

July 13 2011, 2:00am | Comments
Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant
The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments
Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!
Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting
What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination
When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive day…

July 8 2011, 1:52am | Comments
Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments
Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'
Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments
Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art
Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments
Bookmark Friday, by Michel Tournier
French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

July 5 2011, 9:36am | Comments
Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable
My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments
Bookmark 'Err' by artist Jeremy Hutchison
For his new project, Err, artist Jeremy Hutchison contacted various factories around the world, and asked if one of their workers would produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they make…

July 5 2011, 9:25am | Comments
Bookmark Pitchfork Interviews: Björk
Björk's forthcoming Biophilia is an album. It's also an iPad app suite featuring interactive programs for each of its 10 songs... and a treatise on the natural world that involves everything…

July 4 2011, 12:02pm | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus
“All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.” - Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

July 4 2011, 11:02am | Comments
Bookmark Why we must remember to delete - and forget - in the…
In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of such external memories – cave paintings, scrolls, photographic slides, diaries – and their importance to the flourishing of human knowledge. "Since the early days…

July 1 2011, 3:46am | Comments
Twitter
You wouldn’t spoil that stain with satin, would you? Just rinse and pat dry. Just dot it on.

June 29 2011, 7:38am | Comments
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June 28 2011, 2:50pm | Comments
Bookmark Being human
Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this…

June 25 2011, 8:55am | Comments
Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction
The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark Three arguments against the singularity
This is my take on the singularity: we're not going to see a hard take-off, or a slow take-off, or any kind of AI-mediated exponential outburst. What we're going to see…

June 23 2011, 2:48am | Comments
Bookmark Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept
Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they have…

June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments
Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…
APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments
Bookmark On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING
From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve also…

June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments
Bookmark The Things, by Peter Watts
I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being Childs.…

June 20 2011, 5:13am | Comments
Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments
Twitter
Mountains of coffee and 2 pints of bacon, sausage, beans, toast and mushrooms

June 19 2011, 2:03am | Comments
Vimeo

June 16 2011, 4:24pm | Comments
Bookmark Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light
Visitors enter the dark, gargantuan room and take up postures of reverence in front of a massive screen, which towers 40 feet above them. They take off their shoes at the…

June 16 2011, 4:22pm | Comments
Bookmark The Origin of Our Species
"If there has been no spiritual change of kind / Within our species since Cro-Magnon Man . . ." The poet Louis MacNeice was voicing a commonplace that was accepted by…

June 16 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

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