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• Bookmark I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run…

  I don't think Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a bad guy, or that he has nefarious plans for Nvidia, but the most consequential villains in history are rarely evil. They just…

  June 13 2024, 6:57pm | Comments

• Bookmark The expanding orbit of Seattle science fiction writer Octavia Butler

  Knowing that an author who wrote unsparingly about humanity’s capacity for violence and oppression dwelled amid such picturesque Pacific Northwest ordinariness is comforting. This quiet, unremarkable place would suit a diligent…

  December 12 2022, 1:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think -…

  You are a member of a very peculiar species. Of all our quirks, the human religious impulse may be our most distinctive one. We build skyscrapers? Big deal, bowerbirds construct ornate…

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think -…

  You are a member of a very peculiar species. Of all our quirks, the human religious impulse may be our most distinctive one. We build skyscrapers? Big deal, bowerbirds construct ornate…

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Susan Rogers’ catalyst songs - Take 5 - ABC Radio

  Susan Rogers, by her own admission, is a rare bird. A female producer and sound engineer in an industry dominated by men, her drive and commitment would land her side by side with Prince as his star soared.…

  July 4 2020, 4:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Survival of the Richest – Future Human – Medium

  Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far…

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• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Traxx - Rare Roger 4 Monaco

  this was created for Traxx's cousin Monaco who was his dancing partner for anything and all; knowledge beyond in partying and hanging out.. === Original video: https://soundcloud.com/the-nation/traxx-rare-roger-4-monacomp3 Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/

  June 30 2016, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale – SUPERCOMMUNITY – Extinction as Usual?: Geo-Social…

  The concept of the Anthropocene, the so-called geological age of man, has become pervasive in recent years, marking one of those rare instances when an idea from the natural sciences gains…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Litter, Landscape and The Road | Alluvium

  Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) presents a dystopian vision of a near-future world in which most organic vegetation has died and human life is becoming increasingly rare.

  May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Inner Viruses: Forty Million Years In the Making – Phenomena

  Each year, billions of people get infected with viruses–with common ones like influenza and cold viruses, and rarer ones like polio and Ebola. The viruses don’t stay all that long inside…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Chessmate

  LONDON — It was Game 8 of the World Chess Championship, and the four-time winner and defending champion, 42-year-old Viswanathan Anand of India, playing white, was a game down to the…

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• GLTI.CH Karaoke Tactical Glitches: Doom WAN Party!

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  December 1 2013, 5:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Foucault’s boomerang: the new military urbanism

  As our planet urbanizes more rapidly than ever before, an insidious set of boomerang effects, linking security doctrine in cities in the global North with those in the South, are permeating…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

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  January 26 2013, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion

  Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

  January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments

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  January 6 2013, 10:23am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:52am | Comments

• Wikipedia Deleted articles with freaky titles Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:50am | Comments

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  The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement

  September 29 2012, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark We Are Viral From the Beginning

  Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

  June 27 2012, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments

  Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

  June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Methods for Studying Coincidences

  With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. The point is that truly rare events, say events that occur only once in a million [as the mathematician…

  May 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark A challenge to God-guided mutations

  The renowned philosopher of science Elliott Sober has, in recent weeks, given a talk and written a paper that both make the same points: Evolution is totally silent on the idea…

  May 17 2012, 3:35am | Comments

• Tumblr Rare Extreme Wide-Angle (6MM F/2.8)

  April 24 2012, 2:51am | Comments

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• Bookmark I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run…

  I don't think Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a bad guy, or that he has nefarious plans for Nvidia, but the most consequential villains in history are rarely evil. They just…

  June 13 2024, 6:57pm | Comments

• Bookmark The expanding orbit of Seattle science fiction writer Octavia Butler

  Knowing that an author who wrote unsparingly about humanity’s capacity for violence and oppression dwelled amid such picturesque Pacific Northwest ordinariness is comforting. This quiet, unremarkable place would suit a diligent…

  December 12 2022, 1:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think -…

  You are a member of a very peculiar species. Of all our quirks, the human religious impulse may be our most distinctive one. We build skyscrapers? Big deal, bowerbirds construct ornate…

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think -…

  You are a member of a very peculiar species. Of all our quirks, the human religious impulse may be our most distinctive one. We build skyscrapers? Big deal, bowerbirds construct ornate…

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Susan Rogers’ catalyst songs - Take 5 - ABC Radio

  Susan Rogers, by her own admission, is a rare bird. A female producer and sound engineer in an industry dominated by men, her drive and commitment would land her side by side with Prince as his star soared.…

  July 4 2020, 4:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Survival of the Richest – Future Human – Medium

  Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 20 2017, 11:00pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 20 2017, 3:36pm | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Traxx - Rare Roger 4 Monaco

  this was created for Traxx's cousin Monaco who was his dancing partner for anything and all; knowledge beyond in partying and hanging out.. === Original video: https://soundcloud.com/the-nation/traxx-rare-roger-4-monacomp3 Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/

  June 30 2016, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale – SUPERCOMMUNITY – Extinction as Usual?: Geo-Social…

  The concept of the Anthropocene, the so-called geological age of man, has become pervasive in recent years, marking one of those rare instances when an idea from the natural sciences gains…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Litter, Landscape and The Road | Alluvium

  Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) presents a dystopian vision of a near-future world in which most organic vegetation has died and human life is becoming increasingly rare.

  May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Inner Viruses: Forty Million Years In the Making – Phenomena

  Each year, billions of people get infected with viruses–with common ones like influenza and cold viruses, and rarer ones like polio and Ebola. The viruses don’t stay all that long inside…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Chessmate

  LONDON — It was Game 8 of the World Chess Championship, and the four-time winner and defending champion, 42-year-old Viswanathan Anand of India, playing white, was a game down to the…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 17 2014, 6:28am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Tactical Glitches: Doom WAN Party!

  January 14 2014, 9:40am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 1 2013, 5:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Foucault’s boomerang: the new military urbanism

  As our planet urbanizes more rapidly than ever before, an insidious set of boomerang effects, linking security doctrine in cities in the global North with those in the South, are permeating…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Tumblr spaceplasma: This image of Neptune was taken on 11 August 2006...

  January 26 2013, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion

  Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

  January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 6 2013, 10:23am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:52am | Comments

• Wikipedia Deleted articles with freaky titles Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement

  September 29 2012, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark We Are Viral From the Beginning

  Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

  June 27 2012, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments

  Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

  June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Methods for Studying Coincidences

  With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. The point is that truly rare events, say events that occur only once in a million [as the mathematician…

  May 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark A challenge to God-guided mutations

  The renowned philosopher of science Elliott Sober has, in recent weeks, given a talk and written a paper that both make the same points: Evolution is totally silent on the idea…

  May 17 2012, 3:35am | Comments

• Tumblr Rare Extreme Wide-Angle (6MM F/2.8)

  April 24 2012, 2:51am | Comments

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