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• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reading in a Whole New Way

  As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? America was founded on the written word. Its roots spring from documents—the Constitution,…

  July 9 2010, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind

  In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained that…

  June 29 2010, 11:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Genetic Future: How much data is a human genome? It depends how…

  The question is pretty simple: in the not-too-distant future you and I will have had our entire genomes sequenced (except perhaps those of you in California) - so how much hard…

  June 29 2010, 8:33am | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)

  by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged.…

  June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark As technology advances, deep reading suffers

  Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages, changed…

  June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray

  One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents…

  June 1 2010, 2:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Slate Edited History

  To test the effects of photographic editing on memory, Slate altered the content or context of five images. The first was a TV screen shot from President Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial,…

  May 28 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Bookmark What did Jesus do? (Reading and Unreading the Gospels)

  When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he’s a full-grown man. He comes down from Galilee, meets…

  May 19 2010, 3:52am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The word steganography is of Greek origin…

  April 22 2010, 2:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio hellograndad.com

  April 7 2010, 8:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science

  This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

  April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

  March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?

  Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

  March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 11 2010, 3:21am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark A Certain Realism: 'The Known Unknowns' - 4 hours of continuous readings…

  The Known Unknowns is a scheduled cycle of continuous readings running parallel to Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing, an evening organised by Maria Fusco and Book Works at Whitechapel Gallery.…

  November 21 2009, 4:45am | Comments

• Bookmark This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System

  Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In the…

  November 19 2009, 3:46pm | Comments

• Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

  November 6 2009, 9:28am | Comments

• Flickr Kim Jong Il and?

  November 6 2009, 3:18am | Comments

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reading in a Whole New Way

  As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? America was founded on the written word. Its roots spring from documents—the Constitution,…

  July 9 2010, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind

  In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained that…

  June 29 2010, 11:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Genetic Future: How much data is a human genome? It depends how…

  The question is pretty simple: in the not-too-distant future you and I will have had our entire genomes sequenced (except perhaps those of you in California) - so how much hard…

  June 29 2010, 8:33am | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)

  by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged.…

  June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark As technology advances, deep reading suffers

  Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages, changed…

  June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray

  One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents…

  June 1 2010, 2:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Slate Edited History

  To test the effects of photographic editing on memory, Slate altered the content or context of five images. The first was a TV screen shot from President Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial,…

  May 28 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Bookmark What did Jesus do? (Reading and Unreading the Gospels)

  When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he’s a full-grown man. He comes down from Galilee, meets…

  May 19 2010, 3:52am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The word steganography is of Greek origin…

  April 22 2010, 2:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio hellograndad.com

  April 7 2010, 8:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science

  This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

  April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

  March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?

  Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

  March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 11 2010, 3:21am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark A Certain Realism: 'The Known Unknowns' - 4 hours of continuous readings…

  The Known Unknowns is a scheduled cycle of continuous readings running parallel to Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing, an evening organised by Maria Fusco and Book Works at Whitechapel Gallery.…

  November 21 2009, 4:45am | Comments

• Bookmark This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System

  Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In the…

  November 19 2009, 3:46pm | Comments

• Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

  November 6 2009, 9:28am | Comments

• Flickr Kim Jong Il and?

  November 6 2009, 3:18am | Comments

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