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Bookmark 'Rosetta stone' offers digital storage for 1000 years
Researchers working in Japan say they might have the breakthrough archivists are praying for - a sealed permanent memory bank that will be easily readable now and far into the next…

July 30 2009, 2:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Smart machines: What's the worst that could happen?
An invasion led by artificially intelligent machines. Conscious computers. A smartphone virus so smart that it can start mimicking you. You might think that such scenarios are laughably futuristic, but some…

July 30 2009, 1:45pm | Comments
Bookmark Gravity Sucks at the BFI
Simon Faithfull's exhibition Gravity Sucks and his recent talk at the British Film Institute focuses largely around his examination of that most elementary of forces we experience. What Wikipedia calls a…

July 27 2009, 6:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker
I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments
Flickr Wat Yai Chai Mongkol

July 23 2009, 11:09am | Comments
Bookmark The Art-Work of the Future
AS Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously evolved.…

July 22 2009, 4:37pm | Comments
Bookmark How to Change the Song in your Head
You've been singing the theme to The Love Boat for hours now, and you're becoming unmoored. If a song is on an unfinished loop, "sing it through all the way, or…

July 22 2009, 4:05pm | Comments
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July 21 2009, 5:33pm | Comments
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July 21 2009, 5:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast
The dish contains a variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, known in culinary circles as baker's or brewer's yeast. But Cano didn't get this from Whole Foods. Back in 1995, he extracted it…

July 20 2009, 7:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Abandoned Places In The World
When starting on this post for some reason I was thinking that there are not many abandoned places in the world, at least the cities. I knew there are many villages,…

July 14 2009, 4:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory
Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments
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July 12 2009, 3:54pm | Comments
Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…
What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark My Ten Favorite Fetishes
Having studied sexual fetishes for twenty years (which is itself a kind of fetish), I'm long past the investigation of shoes, pain, vomit and rubbing up against people on the subway.…

July 10 2009, 8:46am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: How can you create a communal Yahoo Pipes feed? Can I use Yahoo Pipes to create a feed that contains a bunch of other feeds added by other people?

July 9 2009, 6:37pm | Comments
Bookmark Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory
Paul Virilio is one of the most significant French cultural theorists writing today.1 Increasingly hailed as the inventor of concepts such as 'dromology' (the 'science' of speed), Virilio is renowned for…

July 7 2009, 9:34am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation "Understanding that "A" and "M", and perhaps "X", in Marienbad are all holographs would enrich our enjoyment of an otherwise incomprehensible film ... Without Morel, Last Year at Marienbad is mostly an exercise in formalism; however, with the intertextual juxtaposition of the two,…

July 6 2009, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation
On the making of novels into films, there are two general schools of thought. Some feel that the film should be faithful to the original and are dismayed when it deviates…

July 6 2009, 9:39am | Comments
Bookmark Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance,…
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 change…

July 6 2009, 9:37am | Comments
Bookmark Dancing About Architecture
I just published a novel about music. Early in the process of writing it, I was warned by a similarly music-obsessive friend that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.…

July 2 2009, 9:30am | Comments
Metafilter Behind the Mask - Michael Jackson's rarest recording? Michael Jackson penned and recorded lots of songs, many of which remain unreleased. Perhaps the most infamous, and rarest recording, is his version of Behind the Mask. Legend has it that upon hearing Yellow Magic Orchestra's original track, somewhen around 1979, Quincy Jones…

July 1 2009, 11:40am | Comments
Bookmark Take two video games and call me in the morning
Growing scientific evidence demonstrates that the human brain dynamically changes in response to experience and to changes in the environment, a phenomenon that is known as “plasticity.” It is also believed…

July 1 2009, 9:22am | Comments
Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments
Bookmark Music is Math is Beauty
Glenn Marshall is an Irish computer video artist and musician whose recent work has focused on audio visualization programed in the Processing language. Generally the program is left to its own…

June 28 2009, 4:05am | Comments
Bookmark 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 engaging…

June 27 2009, 4:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Evolutionary Enigma of Dream Content
Boston University neuroscientist Patrick McNamara has an interesting evolutionary theory of dreaming. McNamara’s theory draws from the well-known “handicapping principle” in evolutionary biology, where some organisms have been observed to display…

June 27 2009, 4:32am | Comments
Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science
“The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Exploring Empathic Space: Correlates of Perspective Transformation Ability and Biases in Spatial…
Empathy involves, in part, the ability to simulate the internal states of others. The authors hypothesized that our ability to manipulate, rotate and simulate mental representations of the physical world, including…

June 23 2009, 2:42pm | Comments
Misc This Way to a Face Melting Face Come along for the ride as Carol Maggio raises cheek bones, restores lips, and melts faces.

June 23 2009, 2:47am | Comments
Bookmark NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar…
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 crater…

June 23 2009, 1:39am | Comments

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