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• Bookmark Code World - 'C' - By Tom McCarthy

  There are many stories Tom McCarthy chooses not to tell in “C,” his tour de force new novel encompassing the short life of one Serge Carrefax, born at the turn of…

  September 11 2010, 4:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Titans of science: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins

  We paired up Britain's most celebrated scientists to chat about the big issues: the unity of life, ethics, energy, Handel – and the joy of riding a snowmobile Sir David Attenborough,…

  September 10 2010, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution

  In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959 Erving…

  September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Atemporality is so hot right now (by Matt Jones)

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• Twitter

  Am attempting to organise my notes from the last 6 months... "I am not a man, I am dynamite" ...all signs of order predict the coming revolt

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• Flickr Atemporality is so hot right now

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• Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?

  Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

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• Bookmark Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book

  In 2004, Bob Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, with the goal of finding new models for publishing as it moved from the page to the screen,…

  September 8 2010, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Why like noise?

  The idea of noise is spreading…. From music into art into politics…. Why? As a synonym of avant-garde: noise as the unexpected, the dissonant and dissident. Its transgressiveness, which is mostly…

  September 8 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

  September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

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• Flickr Red Dust Storm

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• Flickr PALMS

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• Flickr Eyebrows (1)

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• Flickr A Hellicopter Weaves Through Traffic

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• Flickr mountain goat

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• Tumblr SpaceCollective Project - Designing Science Fiction Scenarios

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• Flickr Stormy horizon

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• Flickr alone

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• Flickr Last Light

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• Bookmark Cave Painting: Videogames as Art

  Lanchester allowed that computer games would never tell us as much about character as other forms of narrative, but pointed out two great virtues of the form: “The first is visual:…

  September 3 2010, 6:29am | Comments

• Twitter

  “[T]he patient forms a distinctive type of object relation based on perpetual and irresistible desire to merge (cont) tl.gd/3fa4ks

  September 3 2010, 6:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything

  Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a "theory of everything" was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is 2010,…

  September 2 2010, 3:41pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Will the Book Survive Generation Text?

  Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a…

  September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Cover story

  In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the mechanism…

  September 1 2010, 11:16am | Comments

• Flickr Rapaz

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• Bookmark Adam Curtis on 'Mad Men'

  The widespread fascination with the Mad Men series is far more than just simple nostalgia. It is about how we feel about ourselves and our society today. In Mad Men we…

  August 31 2010, 3:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)

  Hard Atheism or What Shall I Name This Column? Hold onto your hats, folks. Although it is perhaps fitting that the actual day on which I sit here at my computer…

  August 30 2010, 10:12am | Comments

• Bookmark First Cannibals Ate Each Other for Extra Nutrition

  The world's first known human cannibals ate each other to satisfy their nutritional needs, concludes a new study of the remains of cannibal feasts consumed about one million years ago. The…

  August 30 2010, 10:11am | Comments

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• Bookmark Code World - 'C' - By Tom McCarthy

  There are many stories Tom McCarthy chooses not to tell in “C,” his tour de force new novel encompassing the short life of one Serge Carrefax, born at the turn of…

  September 11 2010, 4:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Titans of science: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins

  We paired up Britain's most celebrated scientists to chat about the big issues: the unity of life, ethics, energy, Handel – and the joy of riding a snowmobile Sir David Attenborough,…

  September 10 2010, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution

  In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959 Erving…

  September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Atemporality is so hot right now (by Matt Jones)

  September 10 2010, 6:40am | Comments

• Twitter

  Am attempting to organise my notes from the last 6 months... "I am not a man, I am dynamite" ...all signs of order predict the coming revolt

  September 10 2010, 5:31am | Comments

• Flickr Atemporality is so hot right now

  September 10 2010, 5:24am | Comments

• Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?

  Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

  September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 8 2010, 6:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book

  In 2004, Bob Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, with the goal of finding new models for publishing as it moved from the page to the screen,…

  September 8 2010, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Why like noise?

  The idea of noise is spreading…. From music into art into politics…. Why? As a synonym of avant-garde: noise as the unexpected, the dissonant and dissident. Its transgressiveness, which is mostly…

  September 8 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

  September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 7 2010, 9:32am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Flickr Red Dust Storm

  September 5 2010, 6:51am | Comments

• Flickr PALMS

  September 4 2010, 9:40pm | Comments

• Flickr Eyebrows (1)

  September 4 2010, 8:04pm | Comments

• Flickr A Hellicopter Weaves Through Traffic

  September 4 2010, 4:27pm | Comments

• Flickr mountain goat

  September 4 2010, 12:57pm | Comments

• Tumblr SpaceCollective Project - Designing Science Fiction Scenarios

  September 4 2010, 8:18am | Comments

• Flickr Stormy horizon

  September 4 2010, 2:52am | Comments

• Flickr alone

  September 4 2010, 12:34am | Comments

• Flickr Last Light

  September 3 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cave Painting: Videogames as Art

  Lanchester allowed that computer games would never tell us as much about character as other forms of narrative, but pointed out two great virtues of the form: “The first is visual:…

  September 3 2010, 6:29am | Comments

• Twitter

  “[T]he patient forms a distinctive type of object relation based on perpetual and irresistible desire to merge (cont) tl.gd/3fa4ks

  September 3 2010, 6:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything

  Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a "theory of everything" was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is 2010,…

  September 2 2010, 3:41pm | Comments

• YouTube

  September 2 2010, 5:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Will the Book Survive Generation Text?

  Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a…

  September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Cover story

  In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the mechanism…

  September 1 2010, 11:16am | Comments

• Flickr Rapaz

  September 1 2010, 12:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis on 'Mad Men'

  The widespread fascination with the Mad Men series is far more than just simple nostalgia. It is about how we feel about ourselves and our society today. In Mad Men we…

  August 31 2010, 3:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)

  Hard Atheism or What Shall I Name This Column? Hold onto your hats, folks. Although it is perhaps fitting that the actual day on which I sit here at my computer…

  August 30 2010, 10:12am | Comments

• Bookmark First Cannibals Ate Each Other for Extra Nutrition

  The world's first known human cannibals ate each other to satisfy their nutritional needs, concludes a new study of the remains of cannibal feasts consumed about one million years ago. The…

  August 30 2010, 10:11am | Comments

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