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  Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the US…

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  A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" - the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece's…

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  Little is quite as dull as literary worship; this essay on Borges is thus happily doomed. One finds oneself tempted toward learned-sounding inadequacies like: His work combines the elegance of mathematical…

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• Bookmark Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind

  In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained that…

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  Pinker, true to type, opens his piece: "New forms of media have always caused moral panics. The printing press, newspapers, paperbacks, and television were all once denounced as threats to their…

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  The question is pretty simple: in the not-too-distant future you and I will have had our entire genomes sequenced (except perhaps those of you in California) - so how much hard…

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• Bookmark Why e-books will never replace real books

  Because we perceive print and electronic media differently. Because Marshall McLuhan was right about some things. In case you don't recall one of the more influential thinkers of the late 20th…

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• Bookmark Ten movies that never should have been made—and thankfully weren't

  Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds, it…

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  While mainstream literary figures sometimes praise their fellow writers, rarely do they present themselves publicly as hardcore pop culture fans. Since the publication of his novels Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of…

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  "In January of 2002," writes the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, "I received a letter from Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist describing a strange problem." Engel's problem was so strange, I decided to…

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• Misc Dispersion Type Artwork Artist Seth Price URL http://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion08.pdf Date 2002 Accessed 2010-06-24 10:09:31 Medium PDF

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• Misc Code (Or, How to Write Something Differently) Type Book Section Editor Matthew Fuller Author Friedrich Kittler Place Cambridge Mass. Publisher MIT Press Pages 40-47 ISBN 9780262062749 Date 2008 Book Title Software studies : a lexicon

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  We are all here to speak about the virtue of masters. I wrote a work called The Ignorant Master. Therefore it falls to me to defend on this subject the most…

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• Wikipedia Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best ... There are some great ideas here; so many many ideas. Almost too many, need to refer back to this site often.  And, no reason why we couldn't add some of our successful ideas/programmes here too :-)

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  Video games have come a very long way since the 1980s... As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, "Extra Lives: Why Video…

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  The internet: Everything you ever need to know In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here…

  June 21 2010, 3:38am | Comments

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  by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged.…

  June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments

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  July 2 2010, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Losing our minds to the web

  Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the US…

  July 1 2010, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'

  A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" - the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece's…

  July 1 2010, 6:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Borges on Pleasure Island

  Little is quite as dull as literary worship; this essay on Borges is thus happily doomed. One finds oneself tempted toward learned-sounding inadequacies like: His work combines the elegance of mathematical…

  July 1 2010, 2:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind

  In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained that…

  June 29 2010, 11:49am | Comments

• Bookmark The Perils Of Progress

  Pinker, true to type, opens his piece: "New forms of media have always caused moral panics. The printing press, newspapers, paperbacks, and television were all once denounced as threats to their…

  June 29 2010, 11:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Genetic Future: How much data is a human genome? It depends how…

  The question is pretty simple: in the not-too-distant future you and I will have had our entire genomes sequenced (except perhaps those of you in California) - so how much hard…

  June 29 2010, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Why e-books will never replace real books

  Because we perceive print and electronic media differently. Because Marshall McLuhan was right about some things. In case you don't recall one of the more influential thinkers of the late 20th…

  June 29 2010, 8:21am | Comments

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  June 29 2010, 8:14am | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Ten movies that never should have been made—and thankfully weren't

  Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds, it…

  June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments

• Tumblr via what: Human spinal column / Coloured scanning electron micrograph

  June 27 2010, 5:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why Novels are a Weird…

  While mainstream literary figures sometimes praise their fellow writers, rarely do they present themselves publicly as hardcore pop culture fans. Since the publication of his novels Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of…

  June 27 2010, 10:21am | Comments

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  June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Writer Who Couldn't Read

  "In January of 2002," writes the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, "I received a letter from Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist describing a strange problem." Engel's problem was so strange, I decided to…

  June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments

• Tumblr via Catch of the Day | Top Cultured

  June 26 2010, 2:20pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad A cube is a shape in three dimensions

  June 24 2010, 6:55am | Comments

• Misc Dispersion Type Artwork Artist Seth Price URL http://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion08.pdf Date 2002 Accessed 2010-06-24 10:09:31 Medium PDF

  June 24 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Misc Code (Or, How to Write Something Differently) Type Book Section Editor Matthew Fuller Author Friedrich Kittler Place Cambridge Mass. Publisher MIT Press Pages 40-47 ISBN 9780262062749 Date 2008 Book Title Software studies : a lexicon

  June 24 2010, 3:08am | Comments

• Wikipedia Anatomy of a wiki-hoax

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• Tumblr via Damn. | Bad Astronomy

  June 23 2010, 6:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark "The Ignorant Schoolmaster" by Jacques Rancière

  We are all here to speak about the virtue of masters. I wrote a work called The Ignorant Master. Therefore it falls to me to defend on this subject the most…

  June 23 2010, 9:48am | Comments

• Tumblr via Pigs Serve Unicorns a C&D;Letter

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  June 22 2010, 3:24am | Comments

• Wikipedia Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best ... There are some great ideas here; so many many ideas. Almost too many, need to refer back to this site often.  And, no reason why we couldn't add some of our successful ideas/programmes here too :-)

  June 21 2010, 6:44pm | Comments

• Tumblr A gap here is longed for

  June 21 2010, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Are video games the next great art form?

  Video games have come a very long way since the 1980s... As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, "Extra Lives: Why Video…

  June 21 2010, 7:02am | Comments

• Hello Grandad A gap here is longed for

  June 21 2010, 3:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Everything you need to know about the internet

  The internet: Everything you ever need to know In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here…

  June 21 2010, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)

  by John Cayley Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for 'content.' Admittedly, New Media has aged.…

  June 21 2010, 3:33am | Comments

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