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  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

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  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Tumblr revelation2220: Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant...

  April 23 2012, 7:25am | Comments

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  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

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  Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

  January 23 2012, 7:35am | Comments

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  I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

  December 19 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history

  By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago. Montgomery…

  August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments

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  May 5 2011, 5:56am | 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

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

  March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments

• Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

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  NEWS-FLASH: Introducing GLTI.CH/KARAOKE to all you #London / #Japan / Web-based funsters @gltich glti.ch ~ WATCH THIS SPACE #karaoke

  March 24 2011, 1:29am | 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 Why like noise?

  The idea of noise is spreading…. From music into art into politics…. Why? As a synonym of avant-garde: noise as the unexpected, the dissonant and dissident. Its transgressiveness, which is mostly…

  September 8 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Outskirts of Progress

  Much of your life is now spent traveling along the American Northeast, from Baltimore to Boston. Like many who’ve plowed back and forth along this route, you’ve grown overly familiar with…

  July 17 2010, 12:37pm | Comments

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  June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book

  In the beginning was the Word. Then came Gutenberg, and it was good. But then came a giddy army of Japanese school girls, writing and “publishing" novels on cell phones. And…

  June 20 2010, 11:13am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Flickr Karaoke Screens (Flickr Pool)

  August 29 2009, 11:47pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cheapest way from Tokyo to Kumamoto? Last minute Japan travel: after making an error with timing I need to arrange one-way travel from Tokyo to Kumamoto quite quickly. What are the cheapest options? I have looked into flights and trains (for the 17th of August) and both seem expensive…

  August 11 2009, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Rosetta stone' offers digital storage for 1000 years

  Researchers working in Japan say they might have the breakthrough archivists are praying for - a sealed permanent memory bank that will be easily readable now and far into the next…

  July 30 2009, 2:04pm | Comments

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• YouTube

  March 8 2013, 7:10am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Tumblr revelation2220: Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant...

  April 23 2012, 7:25am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

  January 23 2012, 7:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

  December 19 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history

  By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago. Montgomery…

  August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 25 2011, 12:24am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 5 2011, 5:56am | 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

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

  March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments

• Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

• Twitter

  NEWS-FLASH: Introducing GLTI.CH/KARAOKE to all you #London / #Japan / Web-based funsters @gltich glti.ch ~ WATCH THIS SPACE #karaoke

  March 24 2011, 1:29am | 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 Why like noise?

  The idea of noise is spreading…. From music into art into politics…. Why? As a synonym of avant-garde: noise as the unexpected, the dissonant and dissident. Its transgressiveness, which is mostly…

  September 8 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Outskirts of Progress

  Much of your life is now spent traveling along the American Northeast, from Baltimore to Boston. Like many who’ve plowed back and forth along this route, you’ve grown overly familiar with…

  July 17 2010, 12:37pm | Comments

• YouTube

  June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book

  In the beginning was the Word. Then came Gutenberg, and it was good. But then came a giddy army of Japanese school girls, writing and “publishing" novels on cell phones. And…

  June 20 2010, 11:13am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Flickr Karaoke Screens (Flickr Pool)

  August 29 2009, 11:47pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cheapest way from Tokyo to Kumamoto? Last minute Japan travel: after making an error with timing I need to arrange one-way travel from Tokyo to Kumamoto quite quickly. What are the cheapest options? I have looked into flights and trains (for the 17th of August) and both seem expensive…

  August 11 2009, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Rosetta stone' offers digital storage for 1000 years

  Researchers working in Japan say they might have the breakthrough archivists are praying for - a sealed permanent memory bank that will be easily readable now and far into the next…

  July 30 2009, 2:04pm | Comments

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