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  When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."

  “The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

  April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments

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  "All shattered writing has the form of a key... All other life ceases in the life put into words." - Edmond Jabes

  April 24 2012, 6:50am | Comments

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  "[H]umans are no longer monarchs of being, but are instead among beings, entangled in beings, & implicated in other beings." - Levi Bryant

  April 23 2012, 11:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

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  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

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  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

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

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

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  The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  April 14 2012, 8:21am | Comments

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  the mother ship the mother ship

  April 11 2012, 3:04pm | Comments

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  Buying the Body of Christ

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

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  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

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  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

  April 3 2012, 2:33pm | Comments

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  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

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  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

  March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation

  A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think…

  March 28 2012, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse

  There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

  March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments

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  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

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  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

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  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments

• Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

  by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

  March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments

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  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

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  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

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  Anatomy of Norbiton: labyrinthine

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

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  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The God wars

  Atheism is just one-third of this exotic ideological cocktail. Secularism, the political wing of the movement, is another third. Neo-atheists often assume that the two are the same thing; in fact,…

  March 7 2012, 2:42pm | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."

  “The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

  April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "All shattered writing has the form of a key... All other life ceases in the life put into words." - Edmond Jabes

  April 24 2012, 6:50am | Comments

• Twitter

  "[H]umans are no longer monarchs of being, but are instead among beings, entangled in beings, & implicated in other beings." - Levi Bryant

  April 23 2012, 11:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | 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

  The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  April 14 2012, 8:21am | Comments

• Twitter

  the mother ship the mother ship

  April 11 2012, 3:04pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Buying the Body of Christ

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

  April 3 2012, 2:33pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

  March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation

  A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think…

  March 28 2012, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse

  There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

  March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments

• Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

  by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

  March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 16 2012, 5:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Anatomy of Norbiton: labyrinthine

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The God wars

  Atheism is just one-third of this exotic ideological cocktail. Secularism, the political wing of the movement, is another third. Neo-atheists often assume that the two are the same thing; in fact,…

  March 7 2012, 2:42pm | Comments

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