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Metafilter MeFi: John Peel - The scope of music on these shows is still gobsmacking. A user on Soundcloud has posted 458 full John Peel shows. The shows range from 2004 BBC episodes all the way back to several 1967 Radio London shows. Some of the shows playlists can be found on the John Peel wiki as well.…

September 11 2012, 6:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Acclaimed artists commemorate the 25-year anniversary of the GIF
From the oogachaka baby to Nyan Cat, the graphics interchange format, better known as the GIF, has come a long way since the days of floppy discs. The modern-day GIF was…

June 27 2012, 3:28pm | Comments
Bookmark Please RT
"The Rise of the Tweet takes place amid an internet-induced cheapening of language, in both good & bad senses" It’s possible to have a clear attitude toward Twitter if you’re not…

June 27 2012, 3:25pm | Comments
Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments
Bookmark The animated history of the GIF
The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections of…

May 4 2012, 4:45am | Comments
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THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments
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April 14 2012, 6:01pm | Comments
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Just how big are porn sites?

April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments
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How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments
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Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments
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January 15 2012, 3:55pm | Comments
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How the internet transforms scientific discovery

December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments
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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

November 9 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Metafilter F**k Statistics Statistical analysis of OKCupid profiles exposes some sexually fascinating revelations: Herbivores like giving oral more than omnivores Twitter users are more likely to masturbate today Christians and Atheists are just as likely to claim they have never masturbated The correlation between men who…

August 31 2011, 6:05am | Comments
Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future
What will the digital world look like in ten years? The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path. The explosion in the volume…

August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments
Bookmark Content For Users on the Move
What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind that…

July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments
Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant
The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments
Bookmark A Medium for the Masses
The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within a…

June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments
Bookmark GlitchBot
GlitchBot is an automated glitch creation / distribution program and persona. GlitchBot maintains an active presence on flickr, including a profile and photostream, with new images created and uploaded daily. GlitchBot…

May 30 2011, 2:17am | Comments
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University's Mulberry ...
Since the early days of the web, users have been posting animated GIFs. Once synonymous with shoveling construction workers on parked domains, these moving images now more commonly find their way…

May 19 2011, 11:48am | 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 glorious GIF renaissance
GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that sluggish…

May 17 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments
Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture
Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

April 9 2011, 2:16am | 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 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
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December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments
Bookmark Art for animals
Yesterday afternoon, Matthew Fuller gave a brief but fascinating overview of artworks that make a direct address to the perceptual world of non-human animal species. As you will see quite a…

November 27 2010, 6:44am | 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 Year of The Animated Gif
2010 is the year of the animated gif. They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to me…

October 12 2010, 2:47am | Comments
Bookmark Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book
In 2004, Bob Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, with the goal of finding new models for publishing as it moved from the page to the screen,…

September 8 2010, 3:37am | Comments

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