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Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark VideoGames can't tell stories
Games don’t do storytelling well because they can’t deliver the four key components of story. There is no hero. Time is in the control of the player, not the creator. There…

November 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments
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Equivocation in information theory can be "autonomy-producing" - Sometimes, the way words mutate, infect & corrupt one another blows my mind

November 23 2011, 10:06am | Comments
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On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments
Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…
Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes we…

September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…
“What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments
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The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

September 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments
Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia
Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments
Bookmark The New Atheism
Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments
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The Monster Ate Vegetables

July 13 2011, 2:26am | Comments
Bookmark Friday, by Michel Tournier
French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

July 5 2011, 9:36am | 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 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 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 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 This is an 808 Keychain Camera
Shanzai is the name used for a huge black market industry that (currently) specialises in making fake mobile phones in small factories. Basements. We’re not talking about a few phones either.…

January 31 2011, 3:29pm | Comments
Bookmark Russian team prepares to penetrate Lake Vostok
Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit. The lake, which lies four kilometres below…

January 9 2011, 11:23am | 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
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November 19 2010, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark Manguel, Muse of Impossibility
One day in December 1919, the twenty-year-old Jorge Luis Borges, during a short stay in Seville, wrote a letter, in French, to his friend Maurice Abramowicz in Geneva, in which, almost…

October 21 2010, 3:52am | Comments
Bookmark Colonial Studies
Our fascination with ants has led to engaging stories about them, from the Iliad’s Myrmidons to Antz’s Z, as well as a growing body of research by biologists. Though the ant…

October 12 2010, 3:09pm | Comments
Bookmark Purpose-Driven Life
Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…

October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments
Bookmark Planet Zoo
Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But sometimes,…

September 27 2010, 5:15am | Comments
Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype
Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

September 23 2010, 5:05am | Comments
Bookmark Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want to write, get threatened
One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing,…

August 18 2010, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark Reclaiming the Imagination
Imagine being a slave in ancient Rome. Now remember being one. The second task, unlike the first, is crazy. If, as I’m guessing, you never were a slave in ancient Rome,…

August 18 2010, 2:12am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments
Tumblr justinfuckingrichards: Sometimes I think about posting personal...

July 25 2010, 7:49am | Comments
Bookmark "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?
A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last week.…

July 20 2010, 3:56am | Comments

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