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Ask Metafilter Webcam Karaoke I would like to display Karaoke lyrics over a live webcam feed. This means I might need a skype (or equivalent) plugin that plays the music & lyrics, or find some karaoke software with the ability to display lyrics over a transparent background.…

March 10 2011, 5:05am | 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 The not so universal tree of life or the place of viruses…
According to this view, ancient viruses, as with the ones today, could only make copies of themselves by succesfully infecting a host. So they become engines of innovation, using every possible…

March 2 2011, 6:32am | 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 ‘World Wide Mind’
Imagine it: a flower blossoming inside the brain, nanometer stalks splitting away from a micrometer stem. Expanding into every available capillary, touching every cubic millimeter of the brain, collecting terabytes of…

February 17 2011, 3:40pm | Comments
YouTube

February 17 2011, 3:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Open Media (lecture series schedule)
The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called ‘traditional media’. It is variously used to urge for…

February 16 2011, 6:54am | Comments
Bookmark How the Internet Gets Inside Us
That the reality of machines can outpace the imagination of magic, and in so short a time, does tend to lend weight to the claim that the technological shifts in communication…

February 10 2011, 4:18pm | Comments
Bookmark Explain yourself: George-Lakoff, cognitive linguist
As part of our research on explanatory journalism, we’re interviewing experts in fields outside journalism about their approaches to explaining complex systems to non-specialtists. Our first expert is cognitive linguist George Lakoff,…

February 4 2011, 2:26am | Comments
Bookmark Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks
So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of the…

January 18 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark When Art Goes Disruptive: The A/Moral Dis/Order of Recursive Publics | Public…
Although the analysis of geek community as a recursive public sharing social imaginary of openness, and a moral order of freedom, is a valid frame to understand geek culture through a…

January 10 2011, 3:22am | Comments
Bookmark On Resilience
A key feature of complex adaptive systems is their ability to self-organize along a number of different pathways with possible sudden shifts between states: A lake, for example, can exist in…

December 16 2010, 3:09am | Comments
Vimeo

December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments
Tumblr kim jong-il looking at things

December 1 2010, 3:48pm | Comments
Bookmark The Men Who Stole the World
A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which…

December 1 2010, 4:22am | 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
Misc What is a Paradigm? Type Web Page Author Giorgio Agamben URL http://www.egs.edu/faculty/giorgio-agamben/articles/what-is-a-paradigm/ Date 2002 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:43:06

November 26 2010, 3:43am | Comments
Bookmark Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat
Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

November 25 2010, 3:36am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Using a Facebook 'page' as University Research Hub My university department (art postgrad) wants to use Facebook as a community and research hub. What is the best way to go about this? In a perfect world we will use the facebook hub for: News of events and department politics Community options,…

November 18 2010, 9:12am | Comments
Bookmark The Shadow Scholar
In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments
Bookmark The Myth of Separate Magisteria
By now, nearly everyone with a passing interest in science or religion is familiar with Stephen Jay Gould’s description of the two disciplines as “non-overlapping magisteria” with separate domains — science…

November 10 2010, 5:17am | Comments
Bookmark UBUWeb Sound - DJ Food: Raiding the 20th Century
"On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of…

November 6 2010, 6:07pm | Comments
Portfolio The Clock

November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments
Bookmark Against humanism
by Mary Midgley Does the term "humanism" really stand for a new and better form of religion? If so, what is that religion? Or is it something designed as a cure…

November 4 2010, 6:58am | Comments
Bookmark Declaration on the Notion of “The Future”
The International Necronautical Society now entering its eleventh year, the First Committee has recently come under pressure to release, in keeping with the INS’s avant-garde demeanor, some kind of “statement” both…

November 1 2010, 3:42am | Comments
Bookmark All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben
Radio receives little critical attention. Of the various methods for communicating ideas and emotions—books, newspapers, visual art, music, film, television, the Web—radio may be the least discussed, debated, understood. This is…

October 28 2010, 3:50am | Comments
Bookmark Manguel, Muse of Impossibility
One day in December 1919, the twenty-year-old Jorge Luis Borges, during a short stay in Seville, wrote a letter, in French, to his friend Maurice Abramowicz in Geneva, in which, almost…

October 21 2010, 3:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Anthropology of Hackers
A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change…

October 1 2010, 9:08am | Comments
Vimeo

September 30 2010, 4:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Planet Zoo
Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But sometimes,…

September 27 2010, 5:15am | Comments

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