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Bookmark Two podcasts about sound art
"Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass…

March 21 2010, 12:48pm | Comments
Bookmark Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

March 12 2010, 3:09am | Comments
Bookmark Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection
As with any other species, human populations are shaped by the usual forces of natural selection, like famine, disease or climate. A new force is now coming into focus. It is…

March 2 2010, 4:38pm | Comments
Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As…

December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments
Bookmark French magazine reportedly confirms MJ's involvement with Sonic 3 soundtrack
One of the longest running rumors of the video game community is the claim that Michael Jackson contributed to the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to some degree -- a…

December 3 2009, 2:45pm | Comments
Bookmark Overhyped Placebos of Doom?
Let’s say a new drug appears to be effective in combating a condition like chronic anxiety and is the subject of popular news stories. When the drug enters clinical trials, patients…

November 20 2009, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever
Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments
Bookmark The Future of Reading
The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for…

November 3 2009, 9:30am | Comments
Bookmark Monsters and the Moral Imagination
Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release of…

October 27 2009, 12:01pm | Comments
Bookmark If zombies actually existed
If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments
Bibliography Critical Play

August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments
Bookmark Abandoned Places In The World
When starting on this post for some reason I was thinking that there are not many abandoned places in the world, at least the cities. I knew there are many villages,…

July 14 2009, 4:05pm | Comments
Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…
What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation
On the making of novels into films, there are two general schools of thought. Some feel that the film should be faithful to the original and are dismayed when it deviates…

July 6 2009, 9:39am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments
Bookmark Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds
Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular.…

May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments
Wikipedia Alan Watts - Wikipedia Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books…

March 12 2009, 6:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Lewis Carroll in Numberland
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician at Oxford University for most of his life. His fanciful “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” are…

February 4 2009, 10:17am | Comments
Wikipedia List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed. (This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.)

December 16 2008, 8:52am | Comments
Wikipedia Demographics of Russia - Wikipedia Russia's area is about 17 million square kilometers (6.5 million sq. mi.). It remains the largest country in the world by more than 7 million square kilometers (2.5 million sq. mi.). Its population density is about 9 persons per square kilometer (22 per…

February 2 2007, 2:26am | Comments

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