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Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant
The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments
Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments
Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!
Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer

July 11 2011, 11:47am | Comments
Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting
What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination
When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive day…

July 8 2011, 1:52am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics
“Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments
Twitter
"If living beings disturb the order of the world, then this literally means that living beings are primarily turbulence." - Michel Serres

July 7 2011, 7:08am | Comments
Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'
Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

July 6 2011, 3:15pm | 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 Friday, by Michel Tournier
French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

July 5 2011, 9:36am | Comments
Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable
My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments
Bookmark 'Err' by artist Jeremy Hutchison
For his new project, Err, artist Jeremy Hutchison contacted various factories around the world, and asked if one of their workers would produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they make…

July 5 2011, 9:25am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You

July 5 2011, 12:50am | Comments
Bookmark Pitchfork Interviews: Björk
Björk's forthcoming Biophilia is an album. It's also an iPad app suite featuring interactive programs for each of its 10 songs... and a treatise on the natural world that involves everything…

July 4 2011, 12:02pm | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus
“All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.” - Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

July 4 2011, 11:02am | Comments
Bookmark Heaven for Atheists
It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments
Bookmark Why we must remember to delete - and forget - in the…
In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of such external memories – cave paintings, scrolls, photographic slides, diaries – and their importance to the flourishing of human knowledge. "Since the early days…

July 1 2011, 3:46am | Comments
Bookmark A Home Before the End of the World
Our ignorance is truly staggering. According to some estimates, 95 percent of organisms in the soil alone are unknown to science. Many of them labor unseen, in the dark, serving as…

June 29 2011, 4:11pm | Comments
Bookmark Knowledge, not the way you knew it
17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment”…

June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments
Wikipedia Knowledge, not the way you knew it 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment” in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, nowadays constitutes the largest…

June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments
YouTube

June 28 2011, 2:50pm | Comments
Wikipedia Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth are existential risks that could threaten humankind as a whole, have adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, or even cause the end of planet Earth.[1] The concept is expressed in various phrases such as…

June 26 2011, 11:00am | Comments
Twitter
The sun is out, my bicycle calls "Go do London things"

June 26 2011, 3:21am | Comments
Bookmark Being human
Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this…

June 25 2011, 8:55am | Comments
Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction
The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
foursquare checkin @ Raven Row - Takehisa Kosugi exhibition

June 24 2011, 7:20am | Comments
Twitter
This is an original without a copy

June 24 2011, 12:36am | Comments
Bookmark Three arguments against the singularity
This is my take on the singularity: we're not going to see a hard take-off, or a slow take-off, or any kind of AI-mediated exponential outburst. What we're going to see…

June 23 2011, 2:48am | Comments
Tumblr Rock Paper Scissors ForEVER (thanks mrgif)

June 22 2011, 4:06pm | Comments
Twitter
Retweet this until all signs of an original are lost

June 20 2011, 3:09pm | Comments

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