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  April 5 2011, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark To Have Is to Owe

  We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a scarce…

  April 5 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The last stand of the Amazon

  The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes that…

  April 4 2011, 12:07pm | Comments

• Flickr GLTI.CH Karaoke

  April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

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  March 31 2011, 12:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future

  A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

  March 30 2011, 2:30am | 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

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  March 29 2011, 3:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

  March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments

• Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The Font of the Hand

  JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De Laude…

  March 24 2011, 5:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark Clovis People Weren’t First in Americas

  Archaeologists and other scientists report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science that excavations show hunter-gatherers were living at the Buttermilk Creek site and making projectile points, blades, choppers and other…

  March 24 2011, 4:00pm | Comments

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  NEWS-FLASH: Introducing GLTI.CH/KARAOKE to all you #London / #Japan / Web-based funsters @gltich glti.ch ~ WATCH THIS SPACE #karaoke

  March 24 2011, 1:29am | Comments

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  March 23 2011, 6:19pm | Comments

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  March 23 2011, 6:11pm | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Cadogan Hall - Werner Herzog in conversation / #iq2herzog

  March 23 2011, 12:45pm | Comments

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  March 20 2011, 4:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Where Do Animals Come From?

  The origin of animals was one of the most astonishing and important transformations in the history of life. From single-celled ancestors, they evolved into a riot of complexity and diversity. An…

  March 20 2011, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution

  Movement. How did we come to politicize the concept of “movement” in our Western lexicon to begin with? Walzer interprets this as a product of Exodus thinking, where “the movement across…

  March 20 2011, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark 40th Anniversary of the Computer Virus

  This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in…

  March 16 2011, 2:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Can the Brain Explain Your Mind?

  Is studying the brain a good way to understand the mind? Does psychology stand to brain anatomy as physiology stands to body anatomy? In the case of the body, physiological functions—walking,…

  March 16 2011, 11:30am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: All Your Art Are Belong To Us All your art are belong to us. Previously, Rogert Ebert said that video games can never be art. And previously, some disagreed. In a recent opinion piece, game developer Brian Moriarty discusses the debate, and fires a fresh salvo.The piece is long winded,…

  March 16 2011, 10:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and the Image Aggregator

  [ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues of…

  March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments

• Bookmark R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay

  R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay has been making the rounds lately and it sparked a healthy amount of curiosity and note-taking on my part that I felt I wanted to share…

  March 15 2011, 7:59am | Comments

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  March 12 2011, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean

  I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion of…

  March 12 2011, 1:55am | Comments

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  March 11 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Prop Theory in a Nutshell

  Any time we interact with a representative art work – be it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a novel, a comic, a play, a film, or a game – it…

  March 10 2011, 9:31am | Comments

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• YouTube

  April 5 2011, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark To Have Is to Owe

  We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a scarce…

  April 5 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The last stand of the Amazon

  The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes that…

  April 4 2011, 12:07pm | Comments

• Flickr GLTI.CH Karaoke

  April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 31 2011, 12:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future

  A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

  March 30 2011, 2:30am | 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

  Discover what?

  March 29 2011, 3:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

  March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments

• Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The Font of the Hand

  JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De Laude…

  March 24 2011, 5:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark Clovis People Weren’t First in Americas

  Archaeologists and other scientists report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science that excavations show hunter-gatherers were living at the Buttermilk Creek site and making projectile points, blades, choppers and other…

  March 24 2011, 4:00pm | Comments

• Twitter

  NEWS-FLASH: Introducing GLTI.CH/KARAOKE to all you #London / #Japan / Web-based funsters @gltich glti.ch ~ WATCH THIS SPACE #karaoke

  March 24 2011, 1:29am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 23 2011, 6:19pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 23 2011, 6:11pm | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Cadogan Hall - Werner Herzog in conversation / #iq2herzog

  March 23 2011, 12:45pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 20 2011, 4:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Where Do Animals Come From?

  The origin of animals was one of the most astonishing and important transformations in the history of life. From single-celled ancestors, they evolved into a riot of complexity and diversity. An…

  March 20 2011, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution

  Movement. How did we come to politicize the concept of “movement” in our Western lexicon to begin with? Walzer interprets this as a product of Exodus thinking, where “the movement across…

  March 20 2011, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark 40th Anniversary of the Computer Virus

  This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in…

  March 16 2011, 2:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Can the Brain Explain Your Mind?

  Is studying the brain a good way to understand the mind? Does psychology stand to brain anatomy as physiology stands to body anatomy? In the case of the body, physiological functions—walking,…

  March 16 2011, 11:30am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: All Your Art Are Belong To Us All your art are belong to us. Previously, Rogert Ebert said that video games can never be art. And previously, some disagreed. In a recent opinion piece, game developer Brian Moriarty discusses the debate, and fires a fresh salvo.The piece is long winded,…

  March 16 2011, 10:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and the Image Aggregator

  [ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues of…

  March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments

• Bookmark R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay

  R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay has been making the rounds lately and it sparked a healthy amount of curiosity and note-taking on my part that I felt I wanted to share…

  March 15 2011, 7:59am | Comments

• Tumblr Skeletal

  March 14 2011, 1:59am | Comments

• Twitter

  ☢

  March 12 2011, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Jacques Ranciere: What Medium Can Mean

  I will present some remarks here on the use of the notion of medium in art theory and the light cast on this notion by the case of photography. The notion of…

  March 12 2011, 1:55am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 11 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Prop Theory in a Nutshell

  Any time we interact with a representative art work – be it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a novel, a comic, a play, a film, or a game – it…

  March 10 2011, 9:31am | Comments

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