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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV

  When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku’s…

  March 21 2010, 12:49pm | 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

  by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

  February 19 2010, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Lunar Archaeology

  In a meeting today in Sacramento, commissioners might vote to register items left behind on the moon by Apollo astronauts "as an official State Historical Resource," the L.A. Times reports. After…

  January 29 2010, 1:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Leonardo da Vinci's Resume

  From the Codex Atlanticus, this is a letter that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in 1482 to the Duke of Milan advertising his services as a "skilled contriver of instruments of war".…

  January 29 2010, 1:31pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 6 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Into the Uncanny Valley

  Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

  December 7 2009, 5:08pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest…

  November 30 2009, 7:12am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark What happened to Second Life?

  Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. Once upon…

  November 21 2009, 4:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark This Is The Only Level

  This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

  August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

  July 12 2009, 10:35pm | 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 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 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

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

  June 10 2009, 6:55pm | 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: MonkeyFilter! II Ron Gilbert (Wikipedia) recently sat down with his game, The Secret of Monkey Island, and wrote a commentary track detailing the design, secrets, and cuts made in creating the game. (via)

  June 5 2009, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Way more about paths at UC Berkeley than you'd ever want to…

  How architectural and design choices are mediated and ultimately over-ruled by user choice, reflexion, repetition and desire.

  May 25 2009, 12:21pm | 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

• Bookmark Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds

  Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular.…

  May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image

  A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a…

  February 23 2009, 7:07am | 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

• Flickr McMoon

  September 21 2008, 9:42pm | Comments

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV

  When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku’s…

  March 21 2010, 12:49pm | 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

  by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

  February 19 2010, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Lunar Archaeology

  In a meeting today in Sacramento, commissioners might vote to register items left behind on the moon by Apollo astronauts "as an official State Historical Resource," the L.A. Times reports. After…

  January 29 2010, 1:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Leonardo da Vinci's Resume

  From the Codex Atlanticus, this is a letter that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in 1482 to the Duke of Milan advertising his services as a "skilled contriver of instruments of war".…

  January 29 2010, 1:31pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 6 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Into the Uncanny Valley

  Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

  December 7 2009, 5:08pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest…

  November 30 2009, 7:12am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark What happened to Second Life?

  Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. Once upon…

  November 21 2009, 4:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

  November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark This Is The Only Level

  This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

  August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

  July 12 2009, 10:35pm | 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 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 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

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

  June 10 2009, 6:55pm | 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: MonkeyFilter! II Ron Gilbert (Wikipedia) recently sat down with his game, The Secret of Monkey Island, and wrote a commentary track detailing the design, secrets, and cuts made in creating the game. (via)

  June 5 2009, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Way more about paths at UC Berkeley than you'd ever want to…

  How architectural and design choices are mediated and ultimately over-ruled by user choice, reflexion, repetition and desire.

  May 25 2009, 12:21pm | 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

• Bookmark Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds

  Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular.…

  May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image

  A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a…

  February 23 2009, 7:07am | 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

• Flickr McMoon

  September 21 2008, 9:42pm | Comments

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