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Bookmark Is Star Trek A Religion?
Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the natives…

July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments
Bookmark Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast
The dish contains a variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, known in culinary circles as baker's or brewer's yeast. But Cano didn't get this from Whole Foods. Back in 1995, he extracted it…

July 20 2009, 7:01pm | 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 My Ten Favorite Fetishes
Having studied sexual fetishes for twenty years (which is itself a kind of fetish), I'm long past the investigation of shoes, pain, vomit and rubbing up against people on the subway.…

July 10 2009, 8:46am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Blogosphere Big Bang The Early Days of Blogging - Presented at the 2009 HyperText conference, this paper is an extensively cited and well-researched narrative of the blogosphere's formative period. It delves deep into the involvement of Jorn Barger, Dave Winer, and other A-list luminaries.

July 6 2009, 9:29am | Comments
Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…
The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront of…

May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments
Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments
Bookmark Further Reading on Reading | NYTimes
What does it mean to read in a digital age? Researchers are just beginning to explore the question, and educators are engaged in passionate debate about how reading may be changing…

February 2 2009, 4:55pm | Comments
Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments
Metafilter Switching off self-awareness Researchers have found that prolonged concentration on a difficult task actually switches off a person's self awareness. Fancy experiencing this sensation for yourself? That would be an oxymoron in existence. Just lay back and let the orgasm take hold.

April 20 2006, 8:16pm | Comments

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