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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…

  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 regarding,…

  March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Wikipedia wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The last section, titled "Tomorrow's World" is interesting in hindsight: having looked at…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Bookmark wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book

  I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Lewis Carroll in Numberland

  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician at Oxford University for most of his life. His fanciful “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” are…

  February 4 2009, 10:17am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 the…

  February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations

  A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

  January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments

• Wikipedia Henry Darger | Wikipedia Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls,…

  January 6 2009, 5:41am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily In Another city another me is writing

  Take this article, for example. It is an unwinding spring of phonic sounds, encoded into a series of arbitrary symbols, stretching from left to right within an imaginary frame projected onto the surface of your computer screen. Here lies the perfect example of an…

  December 29 2008, 10:52am | 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 that each viewer of a rainbow stands at the centre of their very own optical illusion; that light, once split…

  December 29 2008, 10:47am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fictional cities and towns - Wikipedia This category contains fictional towns and cities. If on Earth, they are found in the subcategories by real-world location (state or country), so that those categories may connect with their real-world counterparts.

  December 19 2008, 8:09am | Comments

• Wikipedia List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed. (This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.)

  December 16 2008, 8:52am | Comments

• Wikipedia Phaedrus (dialogue) - Wikipedia After Phaedrus concedes that this speech was certainly better than any Lysias could compose, they begin a discussion of the nature and uses of rhetoric itself. After showing that speechmaking itself isn't something reproachful, and that what is truly shameful is to engage…

  September 28 2008, 10:24am | Comments

• Flickr McMoon

  September 21 2008, 9:42pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Textual criticism - Wikipedia Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts. Ancient scribes often made errors or alterations, while copying manuscripts by hand.[1] Given a manuscript copy,…

  September 16 2008, 11:23am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

  July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments

• Flickr Fish Ride Bikes

  June 14 2008, 6:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

• Wikipedia Palimpsest - Wikipedia A palimpsest is a manuscript page, whether from scroll or book that has been written on, scraped off, and used again. The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin from Greek παλιν + ψαω = ("again" + "I scrape"), and meant "scraped again." Romans wrot

  February 6 2008, 9:26am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sokal Affair - Wikipedia The Sokal Affair was a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal perpetrated on the editorial staff and readership of the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text

  February 3 2008, 2:32pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wiki Browser by chainofthoughts.com Browse the WIKIVERSE organically

  October 26 2007, 1:48am | Comments

• Flickr Viktor Bulla's Pioneers in Defense Drill, Leningrad (1937)

  July 6 2007, 4:58am | Comments

• Wikipedia Raymond Roussel - Wikipedia Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic, and drug addict. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups w

  May 7 2007, 5:51am | Comments

• Wikipedia Demographics of Russia - Wikipedia Russia's area is about 17 million square kilometers (6.5 million sq. mi.). It remains the largest country in the world by more than 7 million square kilometers (2.5 million sq. mi.). Its population density is about 9 persons per square kilometer (22 per…

  February 2 2007, 2:26am | Comments

• Flickr kkkwheel

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…

  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 regarding,…

  March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Wikipedia wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The last section, titled "Tomorrow's World" is interesting in hindsight: having looked at…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Bookmark wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book

  I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Lewis Carroll in Numberland

  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician at Oxford University for most of his life. His fanciful “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” are…

  February 4 2009, 10:17am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 the…

  February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations

  A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

  January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments

• Wikipedia Henry Darger | Wikipedia Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls,…

  January 6 2009, 5:41am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily In Another city another me is writing

  Take this article, for example. It is an unwinding spring of phonic sounds, encoded into a series of arbitrary symbols, stretching from left to right within an imaginary frame projected onto the surface of your computer screen. Here lies the perfect example of an…

  December 29 2008, 10:52am | 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 that each viewer of a rainbow stands at the centre of their very own optical illusion; that light, once split…

  December 29 2008, 10:47am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fictional cities and towns - Wikipedia This category contains fictional towns and cities. If on Earth, they are found in the subcategories by real-world location (state or country), so that those categories may connect with their real-world counterparts.

  December 19 2008, 8:09am | Comments

• Wikipedia List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed. (This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.)

  December 16 2008, 8:52am | Comments

• Wikipedia Phaedrus (dialogue) - Wikipedia After Phaedrus concedes that this speech was certainly better than any Lysias could compose, they begin a discussion of the nature and uses of rhetoric itself. After showing that speechmaking itself isn't something reproachful, and that what is truly shameful is to engage…

  September 28 2008, 10:24am | Comments

• Flickr McMoon

  September 21 2008, 9:42pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Textual criticism - Wikipedia Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts. Ancient scribes often made errors or alterations, while copying manuscripts by hand.[1] Given a manuscript copy,…

  September 16 2008, 11:23am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

  July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments

• Flickr Fish Ride Bikes

  June 14 2008, 6:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

• Wikipedia Palimpsest - Wikipedia A palimpsest is a manuscript page, whether from scroll or book that has been written on, scraped off, and used again. The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin from Greek παλιν + ψαω = ("again" + "I scrape"), and meant "scraped again." Romans wrot

  February 6 2008, 9:26am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sokal Affair - Wikipedia The Sokal Affair was a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal perpetrated on the editorial staff and readership of the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text

  February 3 2008, 2:32pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wiki Browser by chainofthoughts.com Browse the WIKIVERSE organically

  October 26 2007, 1:48am | Comments

• Flickr Viktor Bulla's Pioneers in Defense Drill, Leningrad (1937)

  July 6 2007, 4:58am | Comments

• Wikipedia Raymond Roussel - Wikipedia Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic, and drug addict. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups w

  May 7 2007, 5:51am | Comments

• Wikipedia Demographics of Russia - Wikipedia Russia's area is about 17 million square kilometers (6.5 million sq. mi.). It remains the largest country in the world by more than 7 million square kilometers (2.5 million sq. mi.). Its population density is about 9 persons per square kilometer (22 per…

  February 2 2007, 2:26am | Comments

• Flickr kkkwheel

  January 25 2007, 11:40am | Comments

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