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• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Re-Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology

  Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology gives us a good perspective from which to think through what has been so far said about Derrida's book. The book is a careful selection of valuable…

  May 17 2012, 3:36am | Comments

• Bookmark People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people

  Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a…

  May 17 2012, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reflecting the Past: Technology brings the ghosts of the past back to…

  "We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the University…

  May 4 2012, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

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  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

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  An Essay on the New Aesthetic

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

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  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

  April 3 2012, 2:33pm | Comments

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  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

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  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

  March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Sound of the Internet

  If the internet makes a sound (and it does), are you listening? Our correspondent uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing—from network traffic to JavaScript, browser histories to…

  March 29 2012, 9:44am | Comments

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  Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

  March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 28 2012, 7:38am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• Metafilter "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort to make." "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20 bit (output) multiplier, 10 bit divider, a memory bank and additional circuitry for the graphing…

  March 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

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  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 10 2012, 4:13am | Comments

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  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

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  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

  March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

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• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Re-Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology

  Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology gives us a good perspective from which to think through what has been so far said about Derrida's book. The book is a careful selection of valuable…

  May 17 2012, 3:36am | Comments

• Bookmark People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people

  Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a…

  May 17 2012, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reflecting the Past: Technology brings the ghosts of the past back to…

  "We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the University…

  May 4 2012, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  An Essay on the New Aesthetic

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

  April 3 2012, 2:33pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

  March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Sound of the Internet

  If the internet makes a sound (and it does), are you listening? Our correspondent uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing—from network traffic to JavaScript, browser histories to…

  March 29 2012, 9:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

  March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 28 2012, 7:38am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• Metafilter "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort to make." "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20 bit (output) multiplier, 10 bit divider, a memory bank and additional circuitry for the graphing…

  March 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 10 2012, 4:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

  March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

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