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Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published
The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark The glorious GIF renaissance
GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that sluggish…

May 17 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Ask Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments
Twitter
...in particular I'd like to track down some REALLY (in)famous GIFs. Both individually & as memes spinning out of their originator's control

May 16 2011, 7:02am | Comments
Tumblr We by Evgeny Zamyatin: Images from Other Worlds

May 16 2011, 3:02am | Comments
Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule
Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments
Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture
Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

April 9 2011, 2:16am | Comments
Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future
A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

March 30 2011, 2:30am | Comments
Bookmark What we cannot predict
"Risks are always interesting," writes George Dyson," especially in this case where you have such a mix of probabilities — the earthquake/tsunami that most agree was unpredictable, if inevitable, and the…

March 30 2011, 2:28am | Comments
Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments
Bookmark Humanities in the Digital Age
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of…

March 6 2011, 12:02pm | Comments
Bookmark Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive torrent
Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive.torrent file On Monday 24th January 2011 the BBC announced that it would be restructuring its online department - with 360 job losses and the deletion of 200 of…

February 10 2011, 9:08am | Comments
Vimeo

January 26 2011, 3:21am | Comments
Bookmark What if They Had a Science War and Only One Side Showed…
In November the executive board of the American Anthropological Association, of which I am a member, met for one and a half days. In preparation for the meeting, we were expected…

January 18 2011, 3:18am | Comments
Bookmark The Novel is not under threat from technology
One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The Island…

January 10 2011, 3:34am | Comments
Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality
How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments
foursquare checkin @ Deep River - Touch down in Connecticut for Xmas

December 24 2010, 1:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media
Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments
Bookmark Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat
Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

November 25 2010, 3:36am | Comments
Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments
Bookmark Geocities - The Torrent
This is a collection of Geocities data downloaded by a bunch of people who call themselves ARCHIVE TEAM, who began scraping the Yahoo! Geocities site during a six month period in…

November 10 2010, 2:05am | Comments
Portfolio The Clock

November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments
Bookmark In Praise of Copying: Get Your Free Copy
Just a quick fyi: If you head over to the Harvard University Press web site, you can grab a free copy of Marcus Boon’s new book, In Praise of Copying, which…

November 3 2010, 8:26am | Comments
Bookmark In Defense of the Poor Image
by Hito Steyerl The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a…

October 28 2010, 7:27am | Comments
Bookmark Bacteria 'R' Us
A few scientists noticed in the late 1960s that the marine bacteria Vibrio fischeri appeared to coordinate among themselves the production of chemicals that produced bioluminescence, waiting until a certain number…

October 21 2010, 10:00am | Comments
Bookmark The Art of Marina Abramovic and the Prophesy of Matthew Arnold
The upside-down values of the art world, popularly infamous, ridiculed, and resented, are by now the mark of the sphere itself, sufficient to establish the cynic’s principle that if you wish…

October 12 2010, 3:10pm | Comments
Bookmark Ants and us
What do you think about when you think about ants? An aerial view perhaps, looking down at a line of ants moving along a trail. Go closer. If you stay with…

October 11 2010, 3:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Anthropology of Hackers
A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change…

October 1 2010, 9:08am | Comments
Bookmark Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a…

September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments
Bookmark Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as we think
Is it really true that the washing machine has changed the world more than the internet? When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened…

August 30 2010, 4:30am | Comments

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