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• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The mysterious Munich recluse who hoarded €1bn of Nazis' stolen art |…

  There's nothing remarkable about Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt's flat, a fifth-floor apartment on the shady side of a modernist apartment block in Munich's Schwabing district: walking distance to the lush English…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

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  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Portals at CRYSTALLIZE: The Aftermath + interview for BBC World

  We just finished a 3 day marathon we called GLTI.CH Portals, at CRYSTALLIZE exhibition. Part of a 3 day New Media art installation at the 2013 Korea Brand & Entertainment Expo, held at Old Billingsgate, London. Below are photos from the event. You can…

  November 7 2013, 4:25am | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

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• GLTI.CH Karaoke Lovely Lustig Latency

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• Bookmark YaleNews | From Neanderthals to alien life: Q&A with science blogger Carl…

  Science writer and blogger Carl Zimmer '87, a lecturer in Yale's Environmental Studies Program, answers questions submitted by the public via the Yale University Tumblr. The video with Zimmer, a lecturer…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark From Neanderthal Skull to Neanderthal Brain? – Phenomena: Only Human

  The first draft of the Neanderthal genome, published in 2010, came with some titillating news. It showed that some 50,000 years ago, these ancient hominids interbred with the ancestors of many…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'Bigfoot DNA' Study Seeks Yeti Rights : Discovery News

  A team of researchers led by Melba Ketchum, a Texas veterinarian, claims to have not only conclusively proven the existence of Bigfoot through genetic testing, but also that the mysterious monster…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Twitter

  One Minute World News

  November 28 2012, 3:33am | Comments

• Instagram #Supraconductor experiment #1 was mighty fun... Tune in to @gltich for news of the next!

  November 13 2012, 9:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by

  October 8 2012, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bibliography Big Town Big Time by Daily News Books

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Screen. Image. Text.

  This moment in time, and the awareness of the possibilities electronic publishing grant, affect the manner in which we relate to texts in a way that is under constant scrutiny. But…

  May 21 2012, 10:40am | Comments

• Bookmark The idea of following in the age of Twitter

  With regard to the relativity of value, Karl Marx expressed this function of ideology in the clearest terms in Volume I of Capital: "... one man is king only because other…

  May 21 2012, 10:39am | Comments

• Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

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• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

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  The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

  February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Metafilter Alan Moore's Masks: A Face to Face Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what he thought about the masks. Now Channel 4 news takes him into Occupy territory to…

  January 13 2012, 8:20am | Comments

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  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

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• Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents

  These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

  August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

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  The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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  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

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• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Media Watch: Pixelating protects identity? Think again. (09/07/2012)

  Gerard Baden-Clay Mr Baden-Clay's lawyers say he is devastated and will vigorously defend the charge. — ABC Online, 13 June, 2012 The ABC's lawyers insisted on pixelating Mr Baden-Clay's image after…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The mysterious Munich recluse who hoarded €1bn of Nazis' stolen art |…

  There's nothing remarkable about Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt's flat, a fifth-floor apartment on the shady side of a modernist apartment block in Munich's Schwabing district: walking distance to the lush English…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Portals at CRYSTALLIZE: The Aftermath + interview for BBC World

  We just finished a 3 day marathon we called GLTI.CH Portals, at CRYSTALLIZE exhibition. Part of a 3 day New Media art installation at the 2013 Korea Brand & Entertainment Expo, held at Old Billingsgate, London. Below are photos from the event. You can…

  November 7 2013, 4:25am | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 21 2013, 7:44pm | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Lovely Lustig Latency

  April 11 2013, 6:26am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 3 2013, 3:39am | Comments

• Bookmark YaleNews | From Neanderthals to alien life: Q&A with science blogger Carl…

  Science writer and blogger Carl Zimmer '87, a lecturer in Yale's Environmental Studies Program, answers questions submitted by the public via the Yale University Tumblr. The video with Zimmer, a lecturer…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark From Neanderthal Skull to Neanderthal Brain? – Phenomena: Only Human

  The first draft of the Neanderthal genome, published in 2010, came with some titillating news. It showed that some 50,000 years ago, these ancient hominids interbred with the ancestors of many…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'Bigfoot DNA' Study Seeks Yeti Rights : Discovery News

  A team of researchers led by Melba Ketchum, a Texas veterinarian, claims to have not only conclusively proven the existence of Bigfoot through genetic testing, but also that the mysterious monster…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Twitter

  One Minute World News

  November 28 2012, 3:33am | Comments

• Instagram #Supraconductor experiment #1 was mighty fun... Tune in to @gltich for news of the next!

  November 13 2012, 9:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by

  October 8 2012, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bibliography Big Town Big Time by Daily News Books

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Screen. Image. Text.

  This moment in time, and the awareness of the possibilities electronic publishing grant, affect the manner in which we relate to texts in a way that is under constant scrutiny. But…

  May 21 2012, 10:40am | Comments

• Bookmark The idea of following in the age of Twitter

  With regard to the relativity of value, Karl Marx expressed this function of ideology in the clearest terms in Volume I of Capital: "... one man is king only because other…

  May 21 2012, 10:39am | Comments

• Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 9 2012, 1:18am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

  February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Metafilter Alan Moore's Masks: A Face to Face Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what he thought about the masks. Now Channel 4 news takes him into Occupy territory to…

  January 13 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents

  These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

  August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  July 13 2011, 2:00am | 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

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