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Bookmark I, for One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords
In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of "Jeopardy!," the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the…

February 19 2011, 5:15pm | Comments
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My talk on 'Open Media' is online. Listen, watch, buy the T-shirt... Errors in Things and "The Friendly Medium" : goo.gl/XKgBB

February 19 2011, 6:09am | Comments
Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments
Bookmark Museum finds the only painting of the Antarctic (William Hodges)
In preparing paintings for the exhibition, the head of oil painting conservation noticed usual things about some of them, prompting her to X-ray, among others, 'A view of Pickersgill Harbour, Dusky…

February 16 2011, 6:58am | Comments
Twitter
My talk on 'Errors in Things' is tmrw: Part of Coventry Uni's Media & Comm 'Open Media' series: bit.ly/MediaOpen thx @Openreflections

February 14 2011, 7:00am | Comments
Bookmark How to Make Anything Signify Anything
It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from 1850,…

February 10 2011, 4:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive torrent
Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive.torrent file On Monday 24th January 2011 the BBC announced that it would be restructuring its online department - with 360 job losses and the deletion of 200 of…

February 10 2011, 9:08am | Comments
Metafilter The Soul Niche Swimming around in a mixture of language and matter, humans occupy a particular evolutionary niche mediated by something we call 'consciousness'. To Professor Nicholas Humphrey we're made up of "soul dust": "a kind of theatre... an entertainment which we put on for ourselves…

February 4 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark The Soul Niche
Neuroscientists have yet to find anything in the brain they are happy calling consciousness, and philosophers are far from agreement over a way of talking about what happens after we wake…

February 4 2011, 1:59am | Comments
Bookmark Narcissus Regards a Book
Who is the common reader now? I do not think there is any way to evade a simple answer to this question. Common readers—which is to say the great majority of…

February 1 2011, 3:26pm | Comments
Bookmark What the science of human nature can teach us
We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner…

January 13 2011, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark The interface and the machine
Being that this conference is about public interfaces, it would be evidently meaningful to talk about interfaces, machines and humans. But instead of examining the present multifaceted overwhelming and immense quantity…

January 10 2011, 3:53am | Comments
Bookmark The Novel is not under threat from technology
One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The Island…

January 10 2011, 3:34am | Comments
Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality
How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Earth project aims to 'simulate everything'
It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists is aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth -…

January 8 2011, 7:50am | Comments
Bookmark Interactive Art: What Video Games Can Learn from Freud
What if the best thing art has to offer is freedom from choice? There’s a reason it’s high praise, not criticism, to say that a film or a piece of music…

January 8 2011, 7:38am | Comments
Bookmark Unearthing Prehistoric Tumors, and Debate
Often thought of as a modern disease, cancer has always been with us. Where scientists disagree is on how much it has been amplified by the sweet and bitter fruits of…

December 27 2010, 3:38pm | Comments
Bookmark On Resilience
A key feature of complex adaptive systems is their ability to self-organize along a number of different pathways with possible sudden shifts between states: A lake, for example, can exist in…

December 16 2010, 3:09am | Comments
Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media
Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments
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December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments
Tumblr kim jong-il looking at things

December 1 2010, 3:48pm | Comments
foursquare checkin @ Museum of Everything - On a cold Saturday afternoon

November 27 2010, 6:39am | Comments
Misc Besides/In a paradigmatic way Type Journal Article Author Yve Lomax URL http://www.nafae.org.uk/journals/jvap-7-3/page-205/ Volume 7.3 Publication The Journal of Visual Art Practice Date December 2008 Accessed 2010-11-26 11:58:07 Abstract This text starts with critique as that which does not rest content with the given,and starting here it embraces…

November 26 2010, 3:58am | Comments
Bookmark Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat
Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

November 25 2010, 3:36am | Comments
Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Using a Facebook 'page' as University Research Hub My university department (art postgrad) wants to use Facebook as a community and research hub. What is the best way to go about this? In a perfect world we will use the facebook hub for: News of events and department politics Community options,…

November 18 2010, 9:12am | Comments
Bookmark The Shadow Scholar
In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments
Bookmark Talks Tree of Codes and Conceptual Art
There’s something about Jonathan Safran Foer that drives a certain breed of dyspeptic New York writer/blogger to drink—more so than usual, anyway. They chafe at the six-figure advances, the visiting professor…

November 13 2010, 3:58pm | Comments
Bookmark Geocities - The Torrent
This is a collection of Geocities data downloaded by a bunch of people who call themselves ARCHIVE TEAM, who began scraping the Yahoo! Geocities site during a six month period in…

November 10 2010, 2:05am | Comments
Portfolio The Clock

November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments
Bookmark Against humanism
by Mary Midgley Does the term "humanism" really stand for a new and better form of religion? If so, what is that religion? Or is it something designed as a cure…

November 4 2010, 6:58am | Comments

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