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• Bookmark Maastricht Ceramic Design

  Petrus Regout (a name associated with worker exploitation even today) started a modern earthenware production factory in Maastricht, the capital of the far South-Eastern Dutch province of Limburg, in 1836. Sphinx…

  June 22 2009, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss

  It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

  June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gallery as Brain

  At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique…

  June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 supposed…

  June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists

  It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

  June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments

• Misc Voiceworks | Holly Pester A collaborartion between Joshua Kaye (composer) and Holly Pester (poet and text artist) Presidents Birds and Even At the conception of this project Kaye and Pester created a system of exchange and translation, developing shared concerns for chance operations, periphery speech sounds and…

  June 11 2009, 12:08am | Comments

• Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

  June 10 2009, 6:55pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism

  Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

  June 8 2009, 12:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps

  “When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like…

  June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race

  This is a remarkably uninformed article about what effect a huge nuclear war would have upon the human race. The author seems to think that the radiation would create a race…

  June 6 2009, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island

  About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh…

  June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: These marks in printer's ink The Táin lithographs In 1967 Louis le Brocquy was commissioned to illustrate Thomas Kinsella's translation of the great Irish prose epic the Táin Bó Cuailnge. The resulting collaborative volume is widely acknowledged as the great Irish Livre d'Artiste of the twentieth century; Le…

  June 6 2009, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks

  People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees…

  May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Twitter

  The act of engagement with art is itself an object, an artefact, in need of reflection

  May 26 2009, 8:50am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

  May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of Life

  How did life arise from inorganic matter? Our progress on this question has been impeded by a formidable cognitive barrier. Because we perceive a deep gap when we think about the…

  May 23 2009, 4:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for…

  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 model…

  May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…

  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 of…

  May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments

• Misc Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party All night time-lapse video of sky over Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas taken with 15mm fisheye lens. Stars, constellations, meteors and satellites can be seen passing overhead for most of the evening. The video ends with the bright galactic core of…

  May 20 2009, 9:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments

• Flickr Brian Dettmer, Key Monuments #2

  May 13 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• 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 Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal / e-flux

  [T]his theory—that if one wants to be able to write something, one should know how it is written—has some logic to it. It forces one first to read, then to copy…

  March 23 2009, 4:00pm | 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

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• Bookmark Maastricht Ceramic Design

  Petrus Regout (a name associated with worker exploitation even today) started a modern earthenware production factory in Maastricht, the capital of the far South-Eastern Dutch province of Limburg, in 1836. Sphinx…

  June 22 2009, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss

  It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

  June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gallery as Brain

  At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique…

  June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 supposed…

  June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists

  It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

  June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments

• Misc Voiceworks | Holly Pester A collaborartion between Joshua Kaye (composer) and Holly Pester (poet and text artist) Presidents Birds and Even At the conception of this project Kaye and Pester created a system of exchange and translation, developing shared concerns for chance operations, periphery speech sounds and…

  June 11 2009, 12:08am | Comments

• Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

  June 10 2009, 6:55pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism

  Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

  June 8 2009, 12:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps

  “When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like…

  June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race

  This is a remarkably uninformed article about what effect a huge nuclear war would have upon the human race. The author seems to think that the radiation would create a race…

  June 6 2009, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island

  About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh…

  June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: These marks in printer's ink The Táin lithographs In 1967 Louis le Brocquy was commissioned to illustrate Thomas Kinsella's translation of the great Irish prose epic the Táin Bó Cuailnge. The resulting collaborative volume is widely acknowledged as the great Irish Livre d'Artiste of the twentieth century; Le…

  June 6 2009, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks

  People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees…

  May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Twitter

  The act of engagement with art is itself an object, an artefact, in need of reflection

  May 26 2009, 8:50am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

  May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of Life

  How did life arise from inorganic matter? Our progress on this question has been impeded by a formidable cognitive barrier. Because we perceive a deep gap when we think about the…

  May 23 2009, 4:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for…

  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 model…

  May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…

  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 of…

  May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments

• Misc Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party All night time-lapse video of sky over Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas taken with 15mm fisheye lens. Stars, constellations, meteors and satellites can be seen passing overhead for most of the evening. The video ends with the bright galactic core of…

  May 20 2009, 9:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments

• Flickr Brian Dettmer, Key Monuments #2

  May 13 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• 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 Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal / e-flux

  [T]his theory—that if one wants to be able to write something, one should know how it is written—has some logic to it. It forces one first to read, then to copy…

  March 23 2009, 4:00pm | 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

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