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• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Metafilter The Pantone Merkel Chart A Pantone chart of German chancellor Angela Merkel's many coloured jackets

  July 17 2012, 2:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution

  The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

  July 10 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Seen as a substance in need of energy, the world lives in the inert terror of the random, it is shattered by chance."

  April 16 2012, 9:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark My 24 hours of watching 'The Clock'

  It’s time. The winged chariot at my back, and all that. Taking a seat on one of the comfortable couches at the National Gallery in Ottawa, I mentally strap myself in.…

  February 9 2012, 3:46am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 9 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | 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 Zooming Out: How Writers Create Our Visual Grammar

  Maybe you’re young enough to remember Blue’s Clues, or old enough to have a little one hanging on the mystery-solving adventures of Steve and Blue as you read this. If, by…

  March 8 2011, 9:41am | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell

  The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium parasite…

  January 24 2011, 2:54am | Comments

• Bookmark On Resilience

  A key feature of complex adaptive systems is their ability to self-organize along a number of different pathways with possible sudden shifts between states: A lake, for example, can exist in…

  December 16 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Shadow Scholar

  In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

  November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark UBUWeb Sound - DJ Food: Raiding the 20th Century

  "On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of…

  November 6 2010, 6:07pm | Comments

• Tumblr SpaceCollective Project - Designing Science Fiction Scenarios

  September 4 2010, 8:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything

  Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a "theory of everything" was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is 2010,…

  September 2 2010, 3:41pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton - Gloom merchant

  The belief that humanity makes moral progress depends upon a wilful ignorance of history. It also depends upon a wilful ignorance of oneself – a refusal to recognise the extent to…

  June 12 2010, 9:19am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a…

  Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why. I've…

  April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Semiotics for Beginners: Codes

  In 1972 NASA sent into deep space an interstellar probe called Pioneer 10. It bore a golden plaque. The art historian Ernst Gombrich offers an insightful commentary on this: The National…

  April 6 2010, 12:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Seen in a new light, Giotto's Florentine masterpieces

  Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shine an astonishing new light on the work of one of the most important painters in the history of Western art. The paintings…

  March 10 2010, 10:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

  Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern…

  October 15 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Fictional Stimulus

  Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

  September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | 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

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Wikipedia Collocation - Wikipedia Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation refers to the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepos

  March 25 2008, 4:08pm | Comments

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• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Metafilter The Pantone Merkel Chart A Pantone chart of German chancellor Angela Merkel's many coloured jackets

  July 17 2012, 2:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution

  The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

  July 10 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Seen as a substance in need of energy, the world lives in the inert terror of the random, it is shattered by chance."

  April 16 2012, 9:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark My 24 hours of watching 'The Clock'

  It’s time. The winged chariot at my back, and all that. Taking a seat on one of the comfortable couches at the National Gallery in Ottawa, I mentally strap myself in.…

  February 9 2012, 3:46am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 9 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | 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 Zooming Out: How Writers Create Our Visual Grammar

  Maybe you’re young enough to remember Blue’s Clues, or old enough to have a little one hanging on the mystery-solving adventures of Steve and Blue as you read this. If, by…

  March 8 2011, 9:41am | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell

  The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium parasite…

  January 24 2011, 2:54am | Comments

• Bookmark On Resilience

  A key feature of complex adaptive systems is their ability to self-organize along a number of different pathways with possible sudden shifts between states: A lake, for example, can exist in…

  December 16 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Shadow Scholar

  In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

  November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark UBUWeb Sound - DJ Food: Raiding the 20th Century

  "On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of…

  November 6 2010, 6:07pm | Comments

• Tumblr SpaceCollective Project - Designing Science Fiction Scenarios

  September 4 2010, 8:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything

  Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a "theory of everything" was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is 2010,…

  September 2 2010, 3:41pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton - Gloom merchant

  The belief that humanity makes moral progress depends upon a wilful ignorance of history. It also depends upon a wilful ignorance of oneself – a refusal to recognise the extent to…

  June 12 2010, 9:19am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a…

  Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why. I've…

  April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Semiotics for Beginners: Codes

  In 1972 NASA sent into deep space an interstellar probe called Pioneer 10. It bore a golden plaque. The art historian Ernst Gombrich offers an insightful commentary on this: The National…

  April 6 2010, 12:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Seen in a new light, Giotto's Florentine masterpieces

  Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shine an astonishing new light on the work of one of the most important painters in the history of Western art. The paintings…

  March 10 2010, 10:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

  Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern…

  October 15 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Fictional Stimulus

  Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

  September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | 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

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Wikipedia Collocation - Wikipedia Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation refers to the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepos

  March 25 2008, 4:08pm | Comments

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