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• Portfolio LISTEN TO MY EXECUTABLES

  July 23 2012, 3:06am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game

  Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines summary,…

  May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments

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  April 30 2012, 11:26am | Comments

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  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

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  The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness

  February 29 2012, 2:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

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  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Portfolio RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2

  July 22 2011, 4:46am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published

  The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

  June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark GlitchBot

  GlitchBot is an automated glitch creation / distribution program and persona. GlitchBot maintains an active presence on flickr, including a profile and photostream, with new images created and uploaded daily. GlitchBot…

  May 30 2011, 2:17am | 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

• Bookmark In Praise of Copying: Get Your Free Copy

  Just a quick fyi: If you head over to the Harvard University Press web site, you can grab a free copy of Marcus Boon’s new book, In Praise of Copying, which…

  November 3 2010, 8:26am | 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 Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution

  In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959 Erving…

  September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments

• Bookmark You're Dead. Now What?

  Will my enduring ghost be a mute witness to the goings-on down here, waving its vapory arms frantically at the undead? Or will it be an agent, endowed with the capacity…

  August 13 2010, 4:29am | Comments

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  August 12 2010, 12:29am | Comments

• Bookmark On The Media: Transcript of "Panoramic View"

  Writer Dave Eggers’ publishing house, McSweeney’s, recently released a one-off newspaper called Panorama. The 328-page paper was meant as a celebration of the print form and a demonstration of why newspapers…

  April 27 2010, 6:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009

  Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009,…

  January 5 2010, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?

  Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest…

  December 23 2009, 2:24am | 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

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Portfolio The Unveiled Divide

  November 10 2009, 11:50am | 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

• Ask Metafilter The alternate 'Testament of Doctor Mabuse' - Fritz Lang's German and French versions Having recently learned that Fritz Lang filmed an entirely different, French language, version of The Testament of Doctor Mabuse alongside the 'original' German version, I set out to find it. The only way to get hold of it seems to be via the…

  October 22 2009, 2:55am | Comments

• Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

  October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Flickr Kenner Kane Figure from ALIEN

  July 25 2009, 1:32pm | Comments

• Metafilter Behind the Mask - Michael Jackson's rarest recording? Michael Jackson penned and recorded lots of songs, many of which remain unreleased. Perhaps the most infamous, and rarest recording, is his version of Behind the Mask. Legend has it that upon hearing Yellow Magic Orchestra's original track, somewhen around 1979, Quincy Jones…

  July 1 2009, 11:40am | Comments

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• Portfolio LISTEN TO MY EXECUTABLES

  July 23 2012, 3:06am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game

  Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines summary,…

  May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 30 2012, 11:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness

  February 29 2012, 2:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Portfolio RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2

  July 22 2011, 4:46am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published

  The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

  June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark GlitchBot

  GlitchBot is an automated glitch creation / distribution program and persona. GlitchBot maintains an active presence on flickr, including a profile and photostream, with new images created and uploaded daily. GlitchBot…

  May 30 2011, 2:17am | 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

• Bookmark In Praise of Copying: Get Your Free Copy

  Just a quick fyi: If you head over to the Harvard University Press web site, you can grab a free copy of Marcus Boon’s new book, In Praise of Copying, which…

  November 3 2010, 8:26am | 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 Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution

  In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959 Erving…

  September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments

• Bookmark You're Dead. Now What?

  Will my enduring ghost be a mute witness to the goings-on down here, waving its vapory arms frantically at the undead? Or will it be an agent, endowed with the capacity…

  August 13 2010, 4:29am | Comments

• Flickr Gensensambo and Horse

  August 12 2010, 12:29am | Comments

• Bookmark On The Media: Transcript of "Panoramic View"

  Writer Dave Eggers’ publishing house, McSweeney’s, recently released a one-off newspaper called Panorama. The 328-page paper was meant as a celebration of the print form and a demonstration of why newspapers…

  April 27 2010, 6:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009

  Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009,…

  January 5 2010, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?

  Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest…

  December 23 2009, 2:24am | 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

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Portfolio The Unveiled Divide

  November 10 2009, 11:50am | 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

• Ask Metafilter The alternate 'Testament of Doctor Mabuse' - Fritz Lang's German and French versions Having recently learned that Fritz Lang filmed an entirely different, French language, version of The Testament of Doctor Mabuse alongside the 'original' German version, I set out to find it. The only way to get hold of it seems to be via the…

  October 22 2009, 2:55am | Comments

• Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

  October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Flickr Kenner Kane Figure from ALIEN

  July 25 2009, 1:32pm | Comments

• Metafilter Behind the Mask - Michael Jackson's rarest recording? Michael Jackson penned and recorded lots of songs, many of which remain unreleased. Perhaps the most infamous, and rarest recording, is his version of Behind the Mask. Legend has it that upon hearing Yellow Magic Orchestra's original track, somewhen around 1979, Quincy Jones…

  July 1 2009, 11:40am | Comments

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