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  According to the Guardian Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks writer,…

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• Bookmark Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger

  This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these…

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  "Exposition is a dirty word," was one of Kasavin's top points. Too many developers front- or back-load games with heavy exposition to create the game world instead of smartly weaving it…

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  Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…

  October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments

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  A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change…

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  On July 29, as part of its Sender, Carrier, Receiver program, Triple Canopy presented a briefing on the activities of the International Necronautical Society's Berlin Inspectorate at Program. As heard in…

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  I've been wondering lately when books became the enemy. Scholars have always been people of the book, so it seems wrong that the faithful companion has been put on the defensive.…

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  Who among us is invulnerable to the puppy in the pet store window? Not everyone is a dog person, of course; some people are cat people or horse people or parakeet…

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  That headline flashed to all corners of the media universe this month. Of course, we don't know whether a universe has corners. Truth is, we don't know much about the universe…

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  What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking…

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  Men in lab coats race across streets, meet up with kids. Kids into building. Panic in streets. People running from cover. Montage of panic. Panic in streets. Flying saucer blasts buildings.…

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  Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But sometimes,…

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• Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

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  This review appeared in New Worlds in 1966 and as far as I can tell is currently unavailable anywhere else.

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  What do scientists think about seeing their fields of research pulverized by science fiction? We asked researchers from diverse fields to tell us whether any science fiction gets it right. Several…

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  We make a mistake when we think of cancer as a noun. It is not something you have, it is something you do. Your body is probably cancering all the time.…

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  Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

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• Bibliography Remainder by Tom McCarthy

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  "So here," says Hall, with suitable drama, "they are: the Ruxton Maggots." Were it not for the maggots, it is pretty safe to say the case of Dr Buck Ruxton, one…

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  Excess and error are necessary precursers to a creative universe

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• Bookmark In conversation: Lee Rourke and Tom McCarthy

  Tom McCarthy's rise from an obscure art-house author has been quite spectacular, culminating in C, his third novel, being shortlisted for this year's Man Booker prize. In something that can only…

  September 18 2010, 10:48am | Comments

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• Bookmark GLI.TC/H Program booklet « GlitchBlog

  gli.tc/h art in Chicago

  October 9 2010, 5:32am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 9 2010, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Ridley Scott goes back to Philip K. Dick for The Man In…

  According to the Guardian Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks writer,…

  October 8 2010, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger

  This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these…

  October 8 2010, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Is There Too Much Exposition in Games?

  "Exposition is a dirty word," was one of Kasavin's top points. Too many developers front- or back-load games with heavy exposition to create the game world instead of smartly weaving it…

  October 7 2010, 2:31am | Comments

• Twitter

  Bat soup

  October 6 2010, 2:23pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 6 2010, 11:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Purpose-Driven Life

  Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…

  October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Anthropology of Hackers

  A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change…

  October 1 2010, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Endpoint of All Gravity Is the Grave (Triple Canopy podcast)

  On July 29, as part of its Sender, Carrier, Receiver program, Triple Canopy presented a briefing on the activities of the International Necronautical Society's Berlin Inspectorate at Program. As heard in…

  September 30 2010, 4:35pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 30 2010, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Are Books Good For?

  I've been wondering lately when books became the enemy. Scholars have always been people of the book, so it seems wrong that the faithful companion has been put on the defensive.…

  September 30 2010, 4:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark What explains the ascendance of Homo sapiens? Start by looking at our…

  Who among us is invulnerable to the puppy in the pet store window? Not everyone is a dog person, of course; some people are cat people or horse people or parakeet…

  September 30 2010, 4:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cosmology, Cambridge Style: Wittgenstein, Toulmin, and Hawking

  That headline flashed to all corners of the media universe this month. Of course, we don't know whether a universe has corners. Truth is, we don't know much about the universe…

  September 30 2010, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film

  What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking…

  September 30 2010, 4:19pm | Comments

• Twitter

  New income streams needed. I will dance for cash

  September 30 2010, 7:39am | Comments

• Flickr Do you like our owl?

  September 30 2010, 2:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Disaster Reenactments (Stock Footage)

  Men in lab coats race across streets, meet up with kids. Kids into building. Panic in streets. People running from cover. Montage of panic. Panic in streets. Flying saucer blasts buildings.…

  September 28 2010, 7:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Planet Zoo

  Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But sometimes,…

  September 27 2010, 5:15am | Comments

• Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

  September 27 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Twitter

  How to disaster?

  September 27 2010, 2:24am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 26 2010, 4:34am | Comments

• Bookmark J.G. Ballard reviews Chris Marker's La Jetee

  This review appeared in New Worlds in 1966 and as far as I can tell is currently unavailable anywhere else.

  September 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Six scientists tell us about the most accurate science fiction in their…

  What do scientists think about seeing their fields of research pulverized by science fiction? We asked researchers from diverse fields to tell us whether any science fiction gets it right. Several…

  September 23 2010, 5:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Cancer is something you 'Do'

  We make a mistake when we think of cancer as a noun. It is not something you have, it is something you do. Your body is probably cancering all the time.…

  September 23 2010, 5:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype

  Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

  September 23 2010, 5:05am | Comments

• Bibliography Remainder by Tom McCarthy

  September 23 2010, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Lords of the flies: the insect detectives

  "So here," says Hall, with suitable drama, "they are: the Ruxton Maggots." Were it not for the maggots, it is pretty safe to say the case of Dr Buck Ruxton, one…

  September 23 2010, 1:29am | Comments

• Twitter

  Excess and error are necessary precursers to a creative universe

  September 22 2010, 9:36am | Comments

• Tumblr Cool, Moist, 1990s

  September 22 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 22 2010, 3:08am | Comments

• Bookmark In conversation: Lee Rourke and Tom McCarthy

  Tom McCarthy's rise from an obscure art-house author has been quite spectacular, culminating in C, his third novel, being shortlisted for this year's Man Booker prize. In something that can only…

  September 18 2010, 10:48am | Comments

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