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• Bookmark A Medium for the Masses

  The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within a…

  June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments

• YouTube

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• Bookmark Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new…

  Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend to…

  June 2 2011, 1:19pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou: “Who Goes There”

  June 2 2011, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Are Artists Liars?

  Shortly before his death, Marlon Brando was working on a series of instructional videos about acting, to be called “Lying for a Living”. On the surviving footage, Brando can be seen…

  June 2 2011, 3:55am | Comments

• Twitter

  The word VALUE is now a detriment to my sense of well-being

  June 2 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Georges Bataille Electronic Library

  Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a…

  June 1 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation

  June 1 2011, 11:44am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ The British Library - Early print of 'Who Goes There?' by John W. Campbell (the inspiration for 'The Thing') at The Out of This World Exhibition, British Library

  June 1 2011, 4:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Our data, ourselves

  Who owns the data in that cloud has been the subject of ferocious debate. It’s not all stored in one place, of course — our lives are tracked and documented by…

  May 30 2011, 3:11pm | Comments

• Tumblr Geological Time (and other amazing images : here)

  May 30 2011, 4:57am | 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

• Wikipedia Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert It's high time people stopped kvetching about Wikipedia, which has long been the best encyclopedia available in English, and started figuring out what it portends instead. For one thing, Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners…

  May 30 2011, 2:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Technology Provides an Alternative to Love

  Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our…

  May 30 2011, 2:03am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert | The Awl "Learners are doers, not recipients." : Wikipedia and the death of the expert via @kimcascone

  May 30 2011, 1:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Depicting Relationships: The limits of language

  The heart of the english sentence (and equivalent sentential forms in other natural languages) lies in connecting ideas together and creating meaning. Like placing two portals from the recent hit sequel…

  May 29 2011, 3:28pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark This will be the Century of Disasters

  A half-mile wide twister tore through Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, killing nearly 100. The tornado was one of 68 reported across seven states this weekend. Unfortunately, this century will be a…

  May 25 2011, 3:52am | Comments

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  May 25 2011, 12:24am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: How long can they last? In the novel, The Road, the people are slowly starving to death due to a nuclear (assumption) winter. What is the reality of this situation?

  May 19 2011, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art

  You can satisfy your low-brow GIF cravings on sites like 4chan or the countless GIF-glorifying Tumblrs like GIF Party and Fuck Yeah GIFs. A step above is the image-based chat site…

  May 19 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University's Mulberry ...

  Since the early days of the web, users have been posting animated GIFs. Once synonymous with shoveling construction workers on parked domains, these moving images now more commonly find their way…

  May 19 2011, 11:48am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ The Manchester Museum - Living Worlds exhibition, Manchester Museum (+ interactive IOS app http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/living-worlds/id429618187?mt=8)

  May 19 2011, 7:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Wonderful: Robots Develop Own Language

  Researchers at The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology have taught robots how to develop their own language. That way, when they're about to deal the finishing blow to…

  May 19 2011, 2:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Flash Symposium at Birkbeck, 24th May 2011

  Ideal for the commute, the lunch-hour, the stolen moment: shortness necessitates the perfect user-friendly format, arguably suited to the fast paced nature of everyday contemporary urban living. At the same time…

  May 17 2011, 2:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark The glorious GIF renaissance

  GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that sluggish…

  May 17 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

  May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Walter Benjamin, Doctrine of the Similar

  May 16 2011, 8:06am | Comments

• Twitter

  ...in particular I'd like to track down some REALLY (in)famous GIFs. Both individually & as memes spinning out of their originator's control

  May 16 2011, 7:02am | Comments

• Tumblr We by Evgeny Zamyatin: Images from Other Worlds

  May 16 2011, 3:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Headless Research

  May 15 2011, 10:26am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 15 2011, 6:19am | Comments

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• Bookmark A Medium for the Masses

  The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within a…

  June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 5 2011, 9:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new…

  Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend to…

  June 2 2011, 1:19pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou: “Who Goes There”

  June 2 2011, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Are Artists Liars?

  Shortly before his death, Marlon Brando was working on a series of instructional videos about acting, to be called “Lying for a Living”. On the surviving footage, Brando can be seen…

  June 2 2011, 3:55am | Comments

• Twitter

  The word VALUE is now a detriment to my sense of well-being

  June 2 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Georges Bataille Electronic Library

  Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a…

  June 1 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation

  June 1 2011, 11:44am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ The British Library - Early print of 'Who Goes There?' by John W. Campbell (the inspiration for 'The Thing') at The Out of This World Exhibition, British Library

  June 1 2011, 4:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Our data, ourselves

  Who owns the data in that cloud has been the subject of ferocious debate. It’s not all stored in one place, of course — our lives are tracked and documented by…

  May 30 2011, 3:11pm | Comments

• Tumblr Geological Time (and other amazing images : here)

  May 30 2011, 4:57am | 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

• Wikipedia Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert It's high time people stopped kvetching about Wikipedia, which has long been the best encyclopedia available in English, and started figuring out what it portends instead. For one thing, Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners…

  May 30 2011, 2:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Technology Provides an Alternative to Love

  Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our…

  May 30 2011, 2:03am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert | The Awl "Learners are doers, not recipients." : Wikipedia and the death of the expert via @kimcascone

  May 30 2011, 1:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Depicting Relationships: The limits of language

  The heart of the english sentence (and equivalent sentential forms in other natural languages) lies in connecting ideas together and creating meaning. Like placing two portals from the recent hit sequel…

  May 29 2011, 3:28pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark This will be the Century of Disasters

  A half-mile wide twister tore through Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, killing nearly 100. The tornado was one of 68 reported across seven states this weekend. Unfortunately, this century will be a…

  May 25 2011, 3:52am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 25 2011, 12:24am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: How long can they last? In the novel, The Road, the people are slowly starving to death due to a nuclear (assumption) winter. What is the reality of this situation?

  May 19 2011, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art

  You can satisfy your low-brow GIF cravings on sites like 4chan or the countless GIF-glorifying Tumblrs like GIF Party and Fuck Yeah GIFs. A step above is the image-based chat site…

  May 19 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University's Mulberry ...

  Since the early days of the web, users have been posting animated GIFs. Once synonymous with shoveling construction workers on parked domains, these moving images now more commonly find their way…

  May 19 2011, 11:48am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ The Manchester Museum - Living Worlds exhibition, Manchester Museum (+ interactive IOS app http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/living-worlds/id429618187?mt=8)

  May 19 2011, 7:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Wonderful: Robots Develop Own Language

  Researchers at The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology have taught robots how to develop their own language. That way, when they're about to deal the finishing blow to…

  May 19 2011, 2:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Flash Symposium at Birkbeck, 24th May 2011

  Ideal for the commute, the lunch-hour, the stolen moment: shortness necessitates the perfect user-friendly format, arguably suited to the fast paced nature of everyday contemporary urban living. At the same time…

  May 17 2011, 2:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark The glorious GIF renaissance

  GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that sluggish…

  May 17 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

  May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Walter Benjamin, Doctrine of the Similar

  May 16 2011, 8:06am | Comments

• Twitter

  ...in particular I'd like to track down some REALLY (in)famous GIFs. Both individually & as memes spinning out of their originator's control

  May 16 2011, 7:02am | Comments

• Tumblr We by Evgeny Zamyatin: Images from Other Worlds

  May 16 2011, 3:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Headless Research

  May 15 2011, 10:26am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 15 2011, 6:19am | Comments

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