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  A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

  November 9 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

  November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments

• Tumblr nevver: The Cephalopoda

  November 8 2011, 12:04pm | Comments

• Tumblr I knew that sequence in The Tree of Life was missing something

  November 2 2011, 7:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?

  It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

  November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

  I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Scariest Zombies in Nature

  Once the fungus invades its victim’s body, it’s already too late. The invader spreads through the host in a matter of days. The victim, unaware of what is happening, becomes driven…

  October 29 2011, 4:45pm | Comments

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  Suspend your disbelief for "the scalping scene"

  October 29 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?

  A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

  October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Movie Set That Ate Itself

  Five years ago, a relatively unknown (and unhinged) director began one of the wildest experiments in film history. Armed with total creative control, he invaded a Ukrainian city, marshaled a cast…

  October 28 2011, 10:30am | Comments

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  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

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  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

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  Explaining the Neuroscience of the Zombie Epidemic

  October 23 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

  Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters were…

  October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web

  October 19 2011, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Tech War Of 2012

  And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies…

  October 17 2011, 12:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : "I would prefer not to" (Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall…

  I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had…

  October 16 2011, 11:38am | Comments

• Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

  October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

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  Beautiful/Decay Cult of the Creative Arts

  October 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?

  The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

  October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments

• Tumblr iwdrm: “On the other side of the screen, it all looks so...

  October 11 2011, 11:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Tumblr The Isolator

  October 6 2011, 7:38am | Comments

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  John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

  October 6 2011, 5:23am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Dominoes, move over. This is a stick bomb. This is an AWESOME STICK BOMB. This is an awesome kid showing you how to make your own stick bomb. This is another really great stick bomb, but it's not done by that awesome little kid, so it's…

  October 5 2011, 11:17am | Comments

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  October 2 2011, 2:40pm | Comments

• Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

  October 2 2011, 4:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)

  Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained…

  September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

  November 9 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

  November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments

• Tumblr nevver: The Cephalopoda

  November 8 2011, 12:04pm | Comments

• Tumblr I knew that sequence in The Tree of Life was missing something

  November 2 2011, 7:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?

  It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

  November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

  I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Scariest Zombies in Nature

  Once the fungus invades its victim’s body, it’s already too late. The invader spreads through the host in a matter of days. The victim, unaware of what is happening, becomes driven…

  October 29 2011, 4:45pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Suspend your disbelief for "the scalping scene"

  October 29 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?

  A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

  October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Movie Set That Ate Itself

  Five years ago, a relatively unknown (and unhinged) director began one of the wildest experiments in film history. Armed with total creative control, he invaded a Ukrainian city, marshaled a cast…

  October 28 2011, 10:30am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Explaining the Neuroscience of the Zombie Epidemic

  October 23 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

  Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters were…

  October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web

  October 19 2011, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Tech War Of 2012

  And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies…

  October 17 2011, 12:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : "I would prefer not to" (Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall…

  I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had…

  October 16 2011, 11:38am | Comments

• Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

  October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Beautiful/Decay Cult of the Creative Arts

  October 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?

  The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

  October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments

• Tumblr iwdrm: “On the other side of the screen, it all looks so...

  October 11 2011, 11:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Tumblr The Isolator

  October 6 2011, 7:38am | Comments

• Twitter

  John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

  October 6 2011, 5:23am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Dominoes, move over. This is a stick bomb. This is an AWESOME STICK BOMB. This is an awesome kid showing you how to make your own stick bomb. This is another really great stick bomb, but it's not done by that awesome little kid, so it's…

  October 5 2011, 11:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 2 2011, 2:40pm | Comments

• Tumblr thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work...

  October 2 2011, 4:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)

  Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained…

  September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments

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