Daniel Rourke /stream

• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Tumblr Pesky Humans

  July 18 2012, 7:39am | Comments

• Twitter

  Your grandmother insists on locking you inside a cage. She places the key in an alcove filled with newts. The newts taunt you. #VoightKampff

  July 18 2012, 3:07am | Comments

• Metafilter The Pantone Merkel Chart A Pantone chart of German chancellor Angela Merkel's many coloured jackets

  July 17 2012, 2:52pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Twitter

  Human that thinks it's a twitter bot

  July 17 2012, 5:46am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 16 2012, 3:52pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Titivillus Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.[1] Titivillus…

  July 13 2012, 1:00am | Comments

• Tumblr La Forge

  July 11 2012, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark DIGITAL FORM DISCUSSION

  To what extent do the material components (e.g. hardware, source code, network protocols) and properties (e.g. speed, malleability, erasability) of digital technology influence the methodologies one might employ to study it?…

  July 11 2012, 6:37am | 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

• YouTube

  July 11 2012, 1:57am | Comments

• Tumblr Spockvision

  July 10 2012, 1:20pm | Comments

• Tumblr Nostromo (via willigula)

  July 10 2012, 1:18pm | Comments

• Twitter

  for!the!proof!of! existence!of!a!Universal! Turing!Machine!

  July 10 2012, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Merzbow and Justin Bieber

  Alongside the Dadaists in the early twentieth century, the German artist Kurt Schwitters developed a style he called “Merz” (detached from the end of “Kommerz,” German for “commerce,” to create a…

  July 10 2012, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark How to write in the digital age

  There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

  July 10 2012, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

  We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Rationally Speaking: Enjoying natural selection on multiple levels

  Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins was picking another fight. Normally, this would not be an occasion worthy of comment. The best way to distinguish between Professor Dawkins’ waking and sleeping states is probably…

  July 10 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark I Like to Build Alien Artifacts

  "How does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will & human life?" Can cells become little computers? And how does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will, intelligence, and…

  July 10 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gallery of Lost Art

  The Gallery of Lost Art, from the Tate

  July 10 2012, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution

  Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

  July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution

  The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

  July 10 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Instagram ONE MORE OF THE SHARD (all hail #Sauron)

  July 5 2012, 3:02pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 4 2012, 7:24am | Comments

• Tumblr Choose your own ‘you are’

  July 3 2012, 3:12am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Karaoke at Goldsmiths: “Speak That I May See Thee”!

  July 2 2012, 8:54am | Comments

• Instagram Togethernessness

  June 30 2012, 2:19pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Belonging to the Emperor

  June 30 2012, 7:03am | Comments

• Bookmark We Are Viral From the Beginning

  Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

  June 27 2012, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark An extended breakdown of the Christian symbolism in Prometheus

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 27 2012, 3:31pm | Comments

Page: ‹ 1... 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 ...174 ›

• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Tumblr Pesky Humans

  July 18 2012, 7:39am | Comments

• Twitter

  Your grandmother insists on locking you inside a cage. She places the key in an alcove filled with newts. The newts taunt you. #VoightKampff

  July 18 2012, 3:07am | Comments

• Metafilter The Pantone Merkel Chart A Pantone chart of German chancellor Angela Merkel's many coloured jackets

  July 17 2012, 2:52pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Twitter

  Human that thinks it's a twitter bot

  July 17 2012, 5:46am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 16 2012, 3:52pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Titivillus Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.[1] Titivillus…

  July 13 2012, 1:00am | Comments

• Tumblr La Forge

  July 11 2012, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark DIGITAL FORM DISCUSSION

  To what extent do the material components (e.g. hardware, source code, network protocols) and properties (e.g. speed, malleability, erasability) of digital technology influence the methodologies one might employ to study it?…

  July 11 2012, 6:37am | 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

• YouTube

  July 11 2012, 1:57am | Comments

• Tumblr Spockvision

  July 10 2012, 1:20pm | Comments

• Tumblr Nostromo (via willigula)

  July 10 2012, 1:18pm | Comments

• Twitter

  for!the!proof!of! existence!of!a!Universal! Turing!Machine!

  July 10 2012, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Merzbow and Justin Bieber

  Alongside the Dadaists in the early twentieth century, the German artist Kurt Schwitters developed a style he called “Merz” (detached from the end of “Kommerz,” German for “commerce,” to create a…

  July 10 2012, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark How to write in the digital age

  There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

  July 10 2012, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

  We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Rationally Speaking: Enjoying natural selection on multiple levels

  Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins was picking another fight. Normally, this would not be an occasion worthy of comment. The best way to distinguish between Professor Dawkins’ waking and sleeping states is probably…

  July 10 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark I Like to Build Alien Artifacts

  "How does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will & human life?" Can cells become little computers? And how does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will, intelligence, and…

  July 10 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gallery of Lost Art

  The Gallery of Lost Art, from the Tate

  July 10 2012, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution

  Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

  July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution

  The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

  July 10 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Instagram ONE MORE OF THE SHARD (all hail #Sauron)

  July 5 2012, 3:02pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 4 2012, 7:24am | Comments

• Tumblr Choose your own ‘you are’

  July 3 2012, 3:12am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Karaoke at Goldsmiths: “Speak That I May See Thee”!

  July 2 2012, 8:54am | Comments

• Instagram Togethernessness

  June 30 2012, 2:19pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Belonging to the Emperor

  June 30 2012, 7:03am | Comments

• Bookmark We Are Viral From the Beginning

  Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

  June 27 2012, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark An extended breakdown of the Christian symbolism in Prometheus

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 27 2012, 3:31pm | Comments

Page: ‹ 1... 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 ...174 ›