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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark If Odysseus Had GPS

  When Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a tropical island he did pretty well for himself, all things considered. But to the rest of the world he was as good as dead.…

  March 21 2010, 12:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Two podcasts about sound art

  "Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass…

  March 21 2010, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Symphony in J flat

  What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In…

  March 9 2010, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Lunar Archaeology

  In a meeting today in Sacramento, commissioners might vote to register items left behind on the moon by Apollo astronauts "as an official State Historical Resource," the L.A. Times reports. After…

  January 29 2010, 1:33pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox

  When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction titan:…

  January 24 2010, 5:06pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: I shared my flesh with thinking cancer The Things - The Thing from the point of view of the thing, by Peter Watts (previously, previously, previously)

  January 4 2010, 12:27pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark keytweeter

  A twitter user who logs and archives every key he presses on his computer keyboard: 39doc↵of↵↓↵↓↵↓↵ar↓↵it was runningoh ok↵this morning the code i was writing↵last night i mentioned it was running…

  November 10 2009, 1:26pm | Comments

• Flickr Kim Jong Il and?

  November 6 2009, 3:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Monsters and the Moral Imagination

  Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release of…

  October 27 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Beyond space and time: To the Nth Dimension

  We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a…

  September 18 2009, 1:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres's Milieux

  Mediation means that which stands, comes or moves between things otherwise separated or opposed. Serres’s work has never ceased to meditate upon mediation in every possible sense: as arbitration; moderation; mediocrity;…

  June 23 2009, 2:38pm | 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 Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism

  Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

  June 8 2009, 12:41am | 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

• 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

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

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | 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

• 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

• 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

• Writing for Spacecollective How Things Become: The Infinity of Definition

  The perceiver's position in an architectural, or merely physical space, determines the dimensional imperatives of that person's mental qualia. It is interesting to note that each viewer of a rainbow stands at the centre of their very own optical illusion; that light, once split…

  December 29 2008, 10:47am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia Meaning of life - Wikipedia The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "

  February 22 2007, 7:52am | Comments

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark If Odysseus Had GPS

  When Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a tropical island he did pretty well for himself, all things considered. But to the rest of the world he was as good as dead.…

  March 21 2010, 12:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Two podcasts about sound art

  "Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass…

  March 21 2010, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Symphony in J flat

  What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In…

  March 9 2010, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Lunar Archaeology

  In a meeting today in Sacramento, commissioners might vote to register items left behind on the moon by Apollo astronauts "as an official State Historical Resource," the L.A. Times reports. After…

  January 29 2010, 1:33pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox

  When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction titan:…

  January 24 2010, 5:06pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: I shared my flesh with thinking cancer The Things - The Thing from the point of view of the thing, by Peter Watts (previously, previously, previously)

  January 4 2010, 12:27pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark keytweeter

  A twitter user who logs and archives every key he presses on his computer keyboard: 39doc↵of↵↓↵↓↵↓↵ar↓↵it was runningoh ok↵this morning the code i was writing↵last night i mentioned it was running…

  November 10 2009, 1:26pm | Comments

• Flickr Kim Jong Il and?

  November 6 2009, 3:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Monsters and the Moral Imagination

  Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release of…

  October 27 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Beyond space and time: To the Nth Dimension

  We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a…

  September 18 2009, 1:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres's Milieux

  Mediation means that which stands, comes or moves between things otherwise separated or opposed. Serres’s work has never ceased to meditate upon mediation in every possible sense: as arbitration; moderation; mediocrity;…

  June 23 2009, 2:38pm | 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 Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism

  Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

  June 8 2009, 12:41am | 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

• 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

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

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | 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

• 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

• 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

• Writing for Spacecollective How Things Become: The Infinity of Definition

  The perceiver's position in an architectural, or merely physical space, determines the dimensional imperatives of that person's mental qualia. It is interesting to note that each viewer of a rainbow stands at the centre of their very own optical illusion; that light, once split…

  December 29 2008, 10:47am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia Meaning of life - Wikipedia The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "

  February 22 2007, 7:52am | Comments

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