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

June 2 2011, 4:09am | Comments
Tumblr Geological Time (and other amazing images : here)

May 30 2011, 4:57am | 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
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
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 Art of the Accident : Institute for the Unstable Media
Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it its…

May 15 2011, 6:04am | Comments
Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments
Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Digital legacy: Archaeology of the future
The historians of 2061 will want to study the birth of the world wide web. How on earth will they know where to start? Today, historians have to piece together the…

May 3 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Bookmark The Philosophy of Insomnia
Philosophy is no friend of sleep. In his Laws (circa 350 BC), Plato platonized, "When a man is asleep, he is no better than if he were dead; and he who…

April 21 2011, 2:44am | Comments
Bookmark Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design Hinge on Death Anxiety
It may be the foundation of modern biology, but fewer than 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. While frustrated scientists sometimes blame religion for this…

April 7 2011, 3:39am | Comments
Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game
The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments
Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments
Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments
Bookmark Clovis People Weren’t First in Americas
Archaeologists and other scientists report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science that excavations show hunter-gatherers were living at the Buttermilk Creek site and making projectile points, blades, choppers and other…

March 24 2011, 4:00pm | Comments
Vimeo

March 20 2011, 4:04pm | Comments
Bookmark The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution
Movement. How did we come to politicize the concept of “movement” in our Western lexicon to begin with? Walzer interprets this as a product of Exodus thinking, where “the movement across…

March 20 2011, 5:35am | Comments
Bookmark Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and the Image Aggregator
[ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues of…

March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Prop Theory in a Nutshell
Any time we interact with a representative art work – be it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a novel, a comic, a play, a film, or a game – it…

March 10 2011, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark “Primal Sound” by rainer maria rilke
it must have been when i was a boy at school that the phonograph was invented. at any rate it was at that time a chief object of public wonder; this…

March 10 2011, 9:10am | Comments
Bookmark Zooming Out: How Writers Create Our Visual Grammar
Maybe you’re young enough to remember Blue’s Clues, or old enough to have a little one hanging on the mystery-solving adventures of Steve and Blue as you read this. If, by…

March 8 2011, 9:41am | Comments
Bookmark Humans, Version 3.0
This view of the future of humankind is grounded in an appreciation of the biologically innate powers bestowed upon us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. This deep respect…

March 5 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark Gif and Take: dump.fm
Dump.fm is a digital version of the old Surrealist genre of the exquisite corpse, a “show and tell” for the polymorphously perverse. The art of dump.fm is genuinely interactive. Social relations…

March 2 2011, 3:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
hrough Insect Media I wanted to investigate non-human media theory – and how we have for a longer time understood high-tech media through nature; through metaphors adapted from nature and more…

March 2 2011, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Unnatural: the Heretical Idea of Making People
We human beings persist in thinking of ourselves as a unique species, endowed with special insight into a universe that we can manipulate. In fact, this notion is based on unexamined…

February 21 2011, 1:23am | Comments
Bookmark Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords?
"Watson is a computer that uncovers meaning in our language, and pinpoints the right answer, instantly. It uses deep analytics to answer questions computers never could before, even the ones on…

February 17 2011, 3:38pm | Comments
Vimeo

February 17 2011, 2:57pm | Comments
Bookmark The lost art of editing
But what happens the rest of the time? Away from the world of freak glitches, what fate befalls the writer as his or her magnum opus enters the publishing production chain?…

February 15 2011, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark How the Internet Gets Inside Us
That the reality of machines can outpace the imagination of magic, and in so short a time, does tend to lend weight to the claim that the technological shifts in communication…

February 10 2011, 4:18pm | 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

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