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• Bookmark Humanism is an impossible dream

  The humanism that the BHA stands for is quite clearly defined in opposition to Christendom. By "Christendom", I mean the idea that the normative and proper state of a society is…

  December 31 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…

  Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

  December 31 2012, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal vs. Homo sapiens: Who would win in a fight?

  team of archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, and paleoartists has created a more accurate Neanderthal reconstruction, based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in France more than 100 years ago. The La Ferrassie Neanderthal…

  December 31 2012, 6:49am | Comments

• Bookmark How scientists recreated Neanderthal man

  In 1909, excavations at La Ferrassie cave in the Dordogne unearthed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. One of the skeletons in that group was that of an adult male,…

  December 31 2012, 6:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

  December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments

• GIFbites Three Camels Featuring the written / spoken work of Mandi...

  December 21 2012, 8:53am | Comments

• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

  December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• GIFbites Television Animated GIF made by otolythe from Berlin-based...

  December 18 2012, 4:50am | Comments

• Projects GIFbites

  December 15 2012, 3:04pm | Comments

• GIFbites 121212 Featuring the voice and work of Gretta Louw GIF source:...

  December 14 2012, 10:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Devastation in Meatspace

  The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

  December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection

  The lesson here is this: stories come from fragment and from ellipsis. At the same time I got the glass eyeballs I was collecting junk. Mostly what I collected was rusted…

  December 14 2012, 3:00am | Comments

• Twitter

  Overheard cellphone chat at NY airport "Mommy bear says there's blood all over the place needs cleanin up. I'll see u down there real soon."

  December 11 2012, 8:35am | Comments

• Instagram The Loop

  December 10 2012, 3:47pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Object Oriented Glitch Ontology?

  December 10 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• YouTube

  December 10 2012, 9:55am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  You’re Not As Special As You Think | The Thoughtful Animal, Scientific American Blog Network

  December 7 2012, 7:00pm | Comments

• Instagram The Official #Glitch2112 Chicago Style Hotdog™

  December 6 2012, 3:37pm | Comments

• GIFbites No higher resolution available Featuring the very subtle sounds...

  December 6 2012, 4:07am | Comments

• Twitter

  Nobody knows why the other 99 per cent is there

  December 1 2012, 10:08am | Comments

• GIFbites Thank you for being a friend Featuring the voice of Daniel...

  November 30 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: what tools and models do we have for collaboration in the humanities? what tools and platforms exist right now which humanists can use to do collaborative research? what models exist of successful humanities collaboration?

  November 26 2012, 7:11am | Comments

• Bookmark GIFABILITY

  Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

  November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 20 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

  November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "All this I am, and I want to be: at the same time dove, serpent, and pig." - Nietzsche

  November 14 2012, 11:49am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:52am | Comments

• Wikipedia Deleted articles with freaky titles Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:50am | Comments

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• Bookmark Humanism is an impossible dream

  The humanism that the BHA stands for is quite clearly defined in opposition to Christendom. By "Christendom", I mean the idea that the normative and proper state of a society is…

  December 31 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…

  Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

  December 31 2012, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal vs. Homo sapiens: Who would win in a fight?

  team of archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, and paleoartists has created a more accurate Neanderthal reconstruction, based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in France more than 100 years ago. The La Ferrassie Neanderthal…

  December 31 2012, 6:49am | Comments

• Bookmark How scientists recreated Neanderthal man

  In 1909, excavations at La Ferrassie cave in the Dordogne unearthed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. One of the skeletons in that group was that of an adult male,…

  December 31 2012, 6:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

  December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments

• GIFbites Three Camels Featuring the written / spoken work of Mandi...

  December 21 2012, 8:53am | Comments

• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

  December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• GIFbites Television Animated GIF made by otolythe from Berlin-based...

  December 18 2012, 4:50am | Comments

• Projects GIFbites

  December 15 2012, 3:04pm | Comments

• GIFbites 121212 Featuring the voice and work of Gretta Louw GIF source:...

  December 14 2012, 10:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Devastation in Meatspace

  The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

  December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection

  The lesson here is this: stories come from fragment and from ellipsis. At the same time I got the glass eyeballs I was collecting junk. Mostly what I collected was rusted…

  December 14 2012, 3:00am | Comments

• Twitter

  Overheard cellphone chat at NY airport "Mommy bear says there's blood all over the place needs cleanin up. I'll see u down there real soon."

  December 11 2012, 8:35am | Comments

• Instagram The Loop

  December 10 2012, 3:47pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Object Oriented Glitch Ontology?

  December 10 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• YouTube

  December 10 2012, 9:55am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  You’re Not As Special As You Think | The Thoughtful Animal, Scientific American Blog Network

  December 7 2012, 7:00pm | Comments

• Instagram The Official #Glitch2112 Chicago Style Hotdog™

  December 6 2012, 3:37pm | Comments

• GIFbites No higher resolution available Featuring the very subtle sounds...

  December 6 2012, 4:07am | Comments

• Twitter

  Nobody knows why the other 99 per cent is there

  December 1 2012, 10:08am | Comments

• GIFbites Thank you for being a friend Featuring the voice of Daniel...

  November 30 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: what tools and models do we have for collaboration in the humanities? what tools and platforms exist right now which humanists can use to do collaborative research? what models exist of successful humanities collaboration?

  November 26 2012, 7:11am | Comments

• Bookmark GIFABILITY

  Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

  November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 20 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

  November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "All this I am, and I want to be: at the same time dove, serpent, and pig." - Nietzsche

  November 14 2012, 11:49am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:52am | Comments

• Wikipedia Deleted articles with freaky titles Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:50am | Comments

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