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  I first went to Camberwell New Cemetery about six years ago, looking for the grave of a young man called Melvin Bryan, a petty criminal who died after being stabbed at…

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  'Or for instance, if you were crushed to death by hundreds of boxes of chocolate....

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• Bookmark The Millions : Bad Metaphors, Bad Tech

  Human flight began with laundry. In 1777, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier was watching clothes drying over a fire when he noticed a shirt swept up in a billow of air; six years later,…

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  For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that…

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  That Benjamin Palmer dropped $3,500 at Phillips auction house in New York is not surprising. The 217-year-old company, headquartered on Park Avenue, regularly sells artwork for tens — and often hundreds…

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  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

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• Portfolio Conference Paper: How GIFs “Language” and What They Might Mean

  International Conference on the Image, ‘How GIFs “Language” and What They Might Mean’, University Center Chicago, October 18th-19th 2013

  October 18 2013, 8:38am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

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• Wikipedia Otherkin Otherkin are a community of people who see themselves as partially or entirely non-human. They contend that they are, in spirit if not in body,[2] not human. This is explained by some members of the otherkin community as possible through reincarnation, having a…

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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…

  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…

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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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• 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…

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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'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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• Bookmark Andrew O’Hagan · The Lives of Ronald Pinn · LRB 8 January…

  I first went to Camberwell New Cemetery about six years ago, looking for the grave of a young man called Melvin Bryan, a petty criminal who died after being stabbed at…

  February 2 2015, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Bruce Willis, Irigaray, and the Aesthetics of Space Travel | Mute

  'Or for instance, if you were crushed to death by hundreds of boxes of chocolate....

  December 10 2014, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : Bad Metaphors, Bad Tech

  Human flight began with laundry. In 1777, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier was watching clothes drying over a fire when he noticed a shirt swept up in a billow of air; six years later,…

  March 16 2014, 11:10am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 20 2014, 1:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 3 2014, 3:01pm | Comments

• Projects The Pharmakon

  November 26 2013, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Software Is Reorganizing the World | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

  For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark If The Internet Is Your Canvas, You Paint In Zeros And Ones…

  That Benjamin Palmer dropped $3,500 at Phillips auction house in New York is not surprising. The 217-year-old company, headquartered on Park Avenue, regularly sells artwork for tens — and often hundreds…

  November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Conference Paper: How GIFs “Language” and What They Might Mean

  International Conference on the Image, ‘How GIFs “Language” and What They Might Mean’, University Center Chicago, October 18th-19th 2013

  October 18 2013, 8:38am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• GIFbites Giraffeical Interchange FormatA GIFbite made in homage to Steve...

  May 22 2013, 6:21am | Comments

• Wikipedia Otherkin Otherkin are a community of people who see themselves as partially or entirely non-human. They contend that they are, in spirit if not in body,[2] not human. This is explained by some members of the otherkin community as possible through reincarnation, having a…

  May 1 2013, 2:02pm | Comments

• 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

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