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• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

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  Meaning as gloss

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  Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?

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• Metafilter The Library of Babel in 140 characters (or fewer) The universe (which others call The Twitter) is composed of every word in the English language; Shakespeare's folios, line-by-line-by-line; the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, exploded; Constantine XI, in 140 character chunks; Sun Tzu's Art of War, in its entirety; the chapter headings…

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• Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."

  “Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

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  Rhetological Fallacies infographic

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  In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

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  A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version as…

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• Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"

  “Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

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  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

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  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…

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  Postdigital literature is not centered in code, but in addressing a reality shaped by a mix of coded/uncoded reality – German Sierra (german_sierra)

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  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

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  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

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  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

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  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

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  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

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  Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled "Visual Theft," Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve

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  How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot

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  Who Coined Skronk, Krautrock & Hip-Hop? The Origins of Musical Genre Phraseology

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  Adaptor vs. Adapter

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  Digital tools 'to save languages'

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  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

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  E-books Can't Burn

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  This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

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  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

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  All Language Is Murder

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• Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 10 2013, 5:28am | Comments

• Tumblr Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?

  January 27 2013, 8:07am | Comments

• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

  December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?

  November 11 2012, 1:02am | Comments

• Metafilter The Library of Babel in 140 characters (or fewer) The universe (which others call The Twitter) is composed of every word in the English language; Shakespeare's folios, line-by-line-by-line; the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, exploded; Constantine XI, in 140 character chunks; Sun Tzu's Art of War, in its entirety; the chapter headings…

  October 27 2012, 9:15am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."

  “Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

  October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Rhetological Fallacies infographic

  September 20 2012, 3:48am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen

  In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

  July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments

• Bookmark War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks

  A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version as…

  June 15 2012, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"

  “Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

  May 30 2012, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | 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 Post-Digitalism and Contemporary Spanish Fiction

  Postdigital literature is not centered in code, but in addressing a reality shaped by a mix of coded/uncoded reality – German Sierra (german_sierra)

  April 30 2012, 10:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

  April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled "Visual Theft," Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve

  February 28 2012, 6:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot

  February 26 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Who Coined Skronk, Krautrock & Hip-Hop? The Origins of Musical Genre Phraseology

  February 25 2012, 3:35pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Adaptor vs. Adapter

  February 24 2012, 4:09pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digital tools 'to save languages'

  February 18 2012, 5:35pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  E-books Can't Burn

  February 16 2012, 3:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Roar so wildly: Spam, technology and language

  This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

  February 16 2012, 5:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  All Language Is Murder

  December 14 2011, 2:50am | Comments

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