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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The Free Universal Construction Kit

  Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10…

  March 19 2012, 6:31am | Comments

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  Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | 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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  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

  February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments

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  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

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  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

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  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

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  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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  Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

  November 29 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

  November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments

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  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web

  October 19 2011, 3:14am | Comments

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  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu

  For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

  August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES…

  Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from a…

  August 11 2011, 4:25am | 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

• 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

• 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

• Bibliography Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Popular Classics) by Daniel Defoe

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

  May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the…

  March 9 2011, 6:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Infinite Glitch.com

  Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is a…

  March 9 2011, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Similarities - a set on Flickr

  The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers of…

  March 2 2011, 6:28am | 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 The New Athe­ists' Nar­row Worldview

  With tongues in cheeks, Rich­ard Daw­kins, Chris­to­pher Hitch­ens, Sam Har­ris, and Dan­iel Dennett are embracing their reputation as the "Four Horsemen." Lampoon­ing the anx­i­eties of evan­geli­cals, these best-sell­ing athe­ists are em­brac­ing…

  January 24 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Third Queue

  I bring all this up because the state of the themed queue - a Disney practice if there ever was one - seems to very much be in a state of…

  December 11 2010, 2:11am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The Free Universal Construction Kit

  Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10…

  March 19 2012, 6:31am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | 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

  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

  February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

  November 29 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

  November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web

  October 19 2011, 3:14am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu

  For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

  August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES…

  Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from a…

  August 11 2011, 4:25am | 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

• 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

• 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

• Bibliography Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Popular Classics) by Daniel Defoe

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

  May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the…

  March 9 2011, 6:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Infinite Glitch.com

  Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is a…

  March 9 2011, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Similarities - a set on Flickr

  The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers of…

  March 2 2011, 6:28am | 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 The New Athe­ists' Nar­row Worldview

  With tongues in cheeks, Rich­ard Daw­kins, Chris­to­pher Hitch­ens, Sam Har­ris, and Dan­iel Dennett are embracing their reputation as the "Four Horsemen." Lampoon­ing the anx­i­eties of evan­geli­cals, these best-sell­ing athe­ists are em­brac­ing…

  January 24 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Third Queue

  I bring all this up because the state of the themed queue - a Disney practice if there ever was one - seems to very much be in a state of…

  December 11 2010, 2:11am | Comments

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