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  As a futurist, you are famous for making predictions of when technological innovations will actually occur. Are you willing to predict the year you will die? My plan is to stick…

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• Bookmark The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection

  The lesson here is this: stories come from fragment and from ellipsis. At the same time I got the glass eyeballs I was collecting junk. Mostly what I collected was rusted…

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  Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

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  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

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  This two-story brick building is nothing special, even a bit decrepit, but as you walk up its crooked metal staircase toward the second floor, you will find the first hint that…

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• Bookmark Computing Texas Hold 'em

  About five years ago, Rubin’s father mentioned that Avi’s younger brother, Yaacov, had been winning money playing poker online. Soon after, Avi suggested to Yaacov that they play sometime. “He kind…

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  Google searches made by a 82 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius

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  Borges: The Task of Art

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  Sushi, of course, is the ultimate in simple food: mostly just rice and a piece of raw fish, it would seem that anyone with a knife and one functioning hand can…

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  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

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  The Pirate Bay - Physibles

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  All Language Is Murder

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• Bookmark “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory

  For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything…

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  What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

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  Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

  July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Rebellion Against Pluralism

  Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for the death of seventy six innocents, is undoubtedly a madman. But madmen can be spurred on by anything in their environment they are…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

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  In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of "Jeopardy!," the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the…

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  It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from 1850,…

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  Neuroscientists have yet to find anything in the brain they are happy calling consciousness, and philosophers are far from agreement over a way of talking about what happens after we wake…

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• Misc Besides/In a paradigmatic way Type Journal Article Author Yve Lomax URL http://www.nafae.org.uk/journals/jvap-7-3/page-205/ Volume 7.3 Publication The Journal of Visual Art Practice Date December 2008 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:58:07 Abstract This text starts with critique as that which does not rest content with the given,and starting here it embraces…

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• Bookmark Ray Kurzweil Says We’re Going to Live Forever - NYTimes.com

  As a futurist, you are famous for making predictions of when technological innovations will actually occur. Are you willing to predict the year you will die? My plan is to stick…

  February 11 2013, 2:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection

  The lesson here is this: stories come from fragment and from ellipsis. At the same time I got the glass eyeballs I was collecting junk. Mostly what I collected was rusted…

  December 14 2012, 3:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

  November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the ‘Die Hard’ Method

  October 7 2012, 3:48pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark In New York Sanitation Dept. Garage, an Art Gallery - NYTimes.com

  This two-story brick building is nothing special, even a bit decrepit, but as you walk up its crooked metal staircase toward the second floor, you will find the first hint that…

  August 8 2012, 2:54am | Comments

• Portfolio LISTEN TO MY EXECUTABLES

  July 23 2012, 3:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Texas Hold 'em

  About five years ago, Rubin’s father mentioned that Avi’s younger brother, Yaacov, had been winning money playing poker online. Soon after, Avi suggested to Yaacov that they play sometime. “He kind…

  June 27 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 8 2012, 2:09pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Google searches made by a 82 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Makes Sushi Great?

  Sushi, of course, is the ultimate in simple food: mostly just rice and a piece of raw fish, it would seem that anyone with a knife and one functioning hand can…

  March 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Pirate Bay - Physibles

  January 24 2012, 2:11pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  All Language Is Murder

  December 14 2011, 2:50am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory

  For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything…

  September 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

  September 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Traces of humanity

  What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

  August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Dominates Us

  Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase their…

  July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments

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

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Rebellion Against Pluralism

  Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for the death of seventy six innocents, is undoubtedly a madman. But madmen can be spurred on by anything in their environment they are…

  July 27 2011, 3:08pm | 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

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark I, for One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

  In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of "Jeopardy!," the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the…

  February 19 2011, 5:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to Make Anything Signify Anything

  It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from 1850,…

  February 10 2011, 4:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Soul Niche

  Neuroscientists have yet to find anything in the brain they are happy calling consciousness, and philosophers are far from agreement over a way of talking about what happens after we wake…

  February 4 2011, 1:59am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments

• Misc Besides/In a paradigmatic way Type Journal Article Author Yve Lomax URL http://www.nafae.org.uk/journals/jvap-7-3/page-205/ Volume 7.3 Publication The Journal of Visual Art Practice Date December 2008 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:58:07 Abstract This text starts with critique as that which does not rest content with the given,and starting here it embraces…

  November 26 2010, 3:58am | Comments

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