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• Bookmark Gif art without the glitch

  I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

  April 25 2011, 5:07pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Why is entropy necessary for there to be memory? In the From Eternity to Here episode of the Science Talk podcast, Sean Carroll says that without entropy there could be no memory. Could you provide an explanation of why that is to somebody who's very much a layperson when it comes to…

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• Bookmark What we cannot predict

  "Risks are always interesting," writes George Dyson," especially in this case where you have such a mix of probabilities — the earthquake/tsunami that most agree was unpredictable, if inevitable, and the…

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  'Virus' in Latin means 'poison'... Communication cannot go on without the element... of contagion at its centre. goo.gl/BKUY1 @juspar

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• Bookmark Similarities - a set on Flickr

  The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers of…

  March 2 2011, 6:28am | Comments

• Bookmark The Temporary Autonomous Zone

  I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only…

  January 22 2011, 5:43am | Comments

• Vimeo

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• Vimeo

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• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Stole the World

  A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which…

  December 1 2010, 4:22am | 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

• Flickr Presaka al habil? / In a hurry?/ Tienes prisa?

  November 23 2010, 2:56pm | 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

• Portfolio The Clock

  November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Bookmark In Praise of Copying: Get Your Free Copy

  Just a quick fyi: If you head over to the Harvard University Press web site, you can grab a free copy of Marcus Boon’s new book, In Praise of Copying, which…

  November 3 2010, 8:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neanderthal Romeo and Human Juliet hypothesis

  Just this year, researchers have estimated that gene flow from Neanderthals to humans occurred between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago (ScienceDaily May, 2010). Researchers have long wondered if Neanderthals were an…

  October 28 2010, 3:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Finding the Neanderthal within ourselves

  Like a disowned half-brother the Neanderthals keep hammering on our door, forcing us to face inconvenient truths. In the nineteenth century, fossil remains of powerful, thickset, short-necked human-like creatures with massive…

  October 22 2010, 9:12am | 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 Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger

  This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these…

  October 8 2010, 2:58am | Comments

• Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

  September 27 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Bookmark …glitches without borders (contd.) « GlitchBlog

  [in continuation/response to Rosa’s post responding to Kyle's post responding to Evan's post] Inherent in glitch art is a denial for codification. Attempts to [con/de]fine this phenomenon, which by it’s very…

  September 11 2010, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of…

  September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments

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• Bookmark Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything

  Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a "theory of everything" was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is 2010,…

  September 2 2010, 3:41pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Flickr L'albufera de Valencia.

  August 6 2010, 8:06am | Comments

• Bookmark A world without mosquitoes

  So what would happen if there were none? Would anyone or anything miss them? Nature put this question to scientists who explore aspects of mosquito biology and ecology, and unearthed some…

  July 27 2010, 8:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The Struggle for the (Possible) Soul of David Eagleman

  There’s a struggle inside the brain of David Eagleman for the soul of David Eagleman. That is, there might be such a struggle if Eagleman’s brain believed that Eagleman had a…

  July 25 2010, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The Creators Project | Takeshi Murata

  The Creators Project: Much of your work centers on the appropriation and distorting of things to the point that they’re entirely something else. I was wondering how you feel about this…

  July 22 2010, 10:01pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Agnostic Cartographer

  Oe fateful day in early August, Google Maps turned Arunachal Pradesh Chinese. It happened without warning. One minute, the mountainous border state adjacent to Tibet was labeled with its usual complement…

  July 11 2010, 4:33pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Gif art without the glitch

  I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

  April 25 2011, 5:07pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Why is entropy necessary for there to be memory? In the From Eternity to Here episode of the Science Talk podcast, Sean Carroll says that without entropy there could be no memory. Could you provide an explanation of why that is to somebody who's very much a layperson when it comes to…

  April 21 2011, 3:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark What we cannot predict

  "Risks are always interesting," writes George Dyson," especially in this case where you have such a mix of probabilities — the earthquake/tsunami that most agree was unpredictable, if inevitable, and the…

  March 30 2011, 2:28am | Comments

• Twitter

  'Virus' in Latin means 'poison'... Communication cannot go on without the element... of contagion at its centre. goo.gl/BKUY1 @juspar

  March 4 2011, 7:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Similarities - a set on Flickr

  The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers of…

  March 2 2011, 6:28am | Comments

• Bookmark The Temporary Autonomous Zone

  I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only…

  January 22 2011, 5:43am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 14 2011, 7:30am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Stole the World

  A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which…

  December 1 2010, 4:22am | 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

• Flickr Presaka al habil? / In a hurry?/ Tienes prisa?

  November 23 2010, 2:56pm | 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

• Portfolio The Clock

  November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Bookmark In Praise of Copying: Get Your Free Copy

  Just a quick fyi: If you head over to the Harvard University Press web site, you can grab a free copy of Marcus Boon’s new book, In Praise of Copying, which…

  November 3 2010, 8:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neanderthal Romeo and Human Juliet hypothesis

  Just this year, researchers have estimated that gene flow from Neanderthals to humans occurred between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago (ScienceDaily May, 2010). Researchers have long wondered if Neanderthals were an…

  October 28 2010, 3:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Finding the Neanderthal within ourselves

  Like a disowned half-brother the Neanderthals keep hammering on our door, forcing us to face inconvenient truths. In the nineteenth century, fossil remains of powerful, thickset, short-necked human-like creatures with massive…

  October 22 2010, 9:12am | 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 Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger

  This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these…

  October 8 2010, 2:58am | Comments

• Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

  September 27 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Bookmark …glitches without borders (contd.) « GlitchBlog

  [in continuation/response to Rosa’s post responding to Kyle's post responding to Evan's post] Inherent in glitch art is a denial for codification. Attempts to [con/de]fine this phenomenon, which by it’s very…

  September 11 2010, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of…

  September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments

• Flickr Stormy horizon

  September 4 2010, 2:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything

  Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a "theory of everything" was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is 2010,…

  September 2 2010, 3:41pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Flickr L'albufera de Valencia.

  August 6 2010, 8:06am | Comments

• Bookmark A world without mosquitoes

  So what would happen if there were none? Would anyone or anything miss them? Nature put this question to scientists who explore aspects of mosquito biology and ecology, and unearthed some…

  July 27 2010, 8:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The Struggle for the (Possible) Soul of David Eagleman

  There’s a struggle inside the brain of David Eagleman for the soul of David Eagleman. That is, there might be such a struggle if Eagleman’s brain believed that Eagleman had a…

  July 25 2010, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The Creators Project | Takeshi Murata

  The Creators Project: Much of your work centers on the appropriation and distorting of things to the point that they’re entirely something else. I was wondering how you feel about this…

  July 22 2010, 10:01pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Agnostic Cartographer

  Oe fateful day in early August, Google Maps turned Arunachal Pradesh Chinese. It happened without warning. One minute, the mountainous border state adjacent to Tibet was labeled with its usual complement…

  July 11 2010, 4:33pm | Comments

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