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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

• Flickr Kenner Kane Figure from ALIEN

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• Bookmark How to Change the Song in your Head

  You've been singing the theme to The Love Boat for hours now, and you're becoming unmoored. If a song is on an unfinished loop, "sing it through all the way, or…

  July 22 2009, 4:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

  July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dancing About Architecture

  I just published a novel about music. Early in the process of writing it, I was warned by a similarly music-obsessive friend that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.…

  July 2 2009, 9:30am | Comments

• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Exploring Empathic Space: Correlates of Perspective Transformation Ability and Biases in Spatial…

  Empathy involves, in part, the ability to simulate the internal states of others. The authors hypothesized that our ability to manipulate, rotate and simulate mental representations of the physical world, including…

  June 23 2009, 2:42pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Vectors of Computer Virus Infection What are the common form of Computer Virus spread these days? I remeber back in the day it was all about Word macros, then Outlook attachmets auto-running, but therse days is it all Internet Browser Exploits? How does your computer get infected these…

  June 22 2009, 5:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss

  It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

  June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gallery as Brain

  At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique…

  June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Immortal Information

  For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

  June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

  June 10 2009, 6:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island

  About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh…

  June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks

  People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees…

  May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Conversations from the past Are there any good sources for accurate transcriptions of historical conversations? I am very interested in history, but am getting a little bored of primarily reading descriptions of things that happened, and would rather see actual conversations. In some ways I'm even more…

  May 25 2009, 9:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | 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 A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Was Schroedinger first or Borges: Which came first, the cat or the mirror? Did Borges read Schroedinger?The arithmetical system of Tlön "states that the operation of counting modifies quantities and changes them from indefinites into definites."The sequence of history makes it possible. Borges's omnivorous reading habits and academic/social prowess help the probability. Yet Schroedinger's initial obscurity…

  April 2 2009, 11:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal / e-flux

  [T]his theory—that if one wants to be able to write something, one should know how it is written—has some logic to it. It forces one first to read, then to copy…

  March 23 2009, 4:00pm | Comments

• Wikipedia wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The last section, titled "Tomorrow's World" is interesting in hindsight: having looked at…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Bookmark wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book

  I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality. Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a discussion of the…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia

  In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

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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

• Flickr Kenner Kane Figure from ALIEN

  July 25 2009, 1:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to Change the Song in your Head

  You've been singing the theme to The Love Boat for hours now, and you're becoming unmoored. If a song is on an unfinished loop, "sing it through all the way, or…

  July 22 2009, 4:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

  July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dancing About Architecture

  I just published a novel about music. Early in the process of writing it, I was warned by a similarly music-obsessive friend that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.…

  July 2 2009, 9:30am | Comments

• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Exploring Empathic Space: Correlates of Perspective Transformation Ability and Biases in Spatial…

  Empathy involves, in part, the ability to simulate the internal states of others. The authors hypothesized that our ability to manipulate, rotate and simulate mental representations of the physical world, including…

  June 23 2009, 2:42pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Vectors of Computer Virus Infection What are the common form of Computer Virus spread these days? I remeber back in the day it was all about Word macros, then Outlook attachmets auto-running, but therse days is it all Internet Browser Exploits? How does your computer get infected these…

  June 22 2009, 5:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss

  It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

  June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gallery as Brain

  At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique…

  June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Immortal Information

  For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

  June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

  June 10 2009, 6:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island

  About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh…

  June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks

  People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees…

  May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Conversations from the past Are there any good sources for accurate transcriptions of historical conversations? I am very interested in history, but am getting a little bored of primarily reading descriptions of things that happened, and would rather see actual conversations. In some ways I'm even more…

  May 25 2009, 9:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | 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 A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Was Schroedinger first or Borges: Which came first, the cat or the mirror? Did Borges read Schroedinger?The arithmetical system of Tlön "states that the operation of counting modifies quantities and changes them from indefinites into definites."The sequence of history makes it possible. Borges's omnivorous reading habits and academic/social prowess help the probability. Yet Schroedinger's initial obscurity…

  April 2 2009, 11:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal / e-flux

  [T]his theory—that if one wants to be able to write something, one should know how it is written—has some logic to it. It forces one first to read, then to copy…

  March 23 2009, 4:00pm | Comments

• Wikipedia wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The last section, titled "Tomorrow's World" is interesting in hindsight: having looked at…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Bookmark wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book

  I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality. Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a discussion of the…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia

  In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

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