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• Bibliography A Perfect Vacuum by Stanislaw Lem

  August 16 2010, 3:43am | Comments

• Bibliography The Time Machine (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells

  August 16 2010, 3:36am | Comments

• Bibliography O'Brien Flann : Third Policeman (Plume) by Flann O'Brien

  August 16 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Bibliography The Mezzanine (Granta Paperbacks) by Nicholson Baker

  August 16 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Bibliography Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

  August 16 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bibliography Parasite (PostHumanities) by Michel Serres

  August 16 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The Mind's I

  Now available for free online: The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul (ISBN 0-553-34584-2) is a 1981 book composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C.…

  August 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The Age of Semi-Post-Modernism

  It seems to me part of the problem is that the term "postmodernism" was always so muddy and abstract. To different people, it meant (at least) two different things. First of…

  August 16 2010, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark If the Earth Stood Still

  If the earth stood still, the oceans would gradually migrate toward the poles and cause land in the equatorial region to emerge. This would eventually result in a huge equatorial megacontinent…

  August 16 2010, 2:51am | Comments

• Wikipedia Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't comprehensive or authoritative, but it serves as a showcase of situations where people lose sight…

  August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark The internet: is it changing the way we think?

  Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". "Over the past…

  August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark SAME HAT! (tumblr)

  For folks that haven't checked it yet, the newly re-launched SAME HAT TUMBLR is up and running! The SAME HAT! Tumblr is curated and run by 8 contributors. It features art/videos/music…

  August 16 2010, 2:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Porn for the Blind

  Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge.

  August 16 2010, 2:27am | Comments

• Flickr Caterpillar, Raupe, Mittlerer Weinschwärmer, Deilephila elpenor

  August 14 2010, 12:42pm | Comments

• Metafilter Going (London) Underground The London Underground. Every Londoner has used it, but has everyone really seen it? The old map is looking a bit dusty. Perhaps its time for Geographic precision or maybe 3D projection. If we add bicycles to the map, is it still an…

  August 13 2010, 5:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The love of the high-end (book) heist

  Books have long been the object of desire, a desire that in intensity (among the susceptible) is stronger than for sex. Bibliomania, the obsession to possess books, was first recognised as…

  August 13 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Bookmark You're Dead. Now What?

  Will my enduring ghost be a mute witness to the goings-on down here, waving its vapory arms frantically at the undead? Or will it be an agent, endowed with the capacity…

  August 13 2010, 4:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Neandertal Brethren

  According to the late Harvard University biologist Ernst W. Mayr, the greatest evolutionary theorist since Charles Darwin, “species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated…

  August 13 2010, 4:27am | Comments

• Flickr Gensensambo and Horse

  August 12 2010, 12:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time

  Physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory – inspired by pencil lead – that could make it all very simple IT WAS a speech that changed…

  August 11 2010, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Your Move: The Maze of Free Will

  You may have heard of determinism, the theory that absolutely everything that happens is causally determined to happen exactly as it does by what has already gone before — right back…

  August 11 2010, 3:19am | Comments

• Bookmark The Limits of the Coded World

  In an influential article in the Annual Review of Neuroscience, Joshua Gold of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Shadlen of the University of Washington sum up experiments aimed at discovering…

  August 11 2010, 3:07am | Comments

• Bookmark The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

  Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated…

  August 11 2010, 1:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The 10 Most Disgusting Alien Civilizations

  We've dedicated this Power Grid to the most disgusting alien civilizations to ever grace the page, screen, or hard drive. Why is biology used as technology the easiest way to make…

  August 10 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Flickr Coralejo

  August 6 2010, 11:13am | Comments

• Flickr L'albufera de Valencia.

  August 6 2010, 8:06am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ The Fruitmarket Gallery - Martin Creed after lunch. Pub grub!

  August 6 2010, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Infinite Life

  A starry firmament, or sand cascading through one’s open fingers, or weeds springing up time after time: the first conception of infinity, of the uncountable and the unending, is not recorded,…

  August 5 2010, 3:18am | Comments

• Flickr forgotten

  August 3 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Flickr Swiftcurrent Lake #044

  August 2 2010, 9:27pm | Comments

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• Bibliography A Perfect Vacuum by Stanislaw Lem

  August 16 2010, 3:43am | Comments

• Bibliography The Time Machine (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells

  August 16 2010, 3:36am | Comments

• Bibliography O'Brien Flann : Third Policeman (Plume) by Flann O'Brien

  August 16 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Bibliography The Mezzanine (Granta Paperbacks) by Nicholson Baker

  August 16 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Bibliography Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

  August 16 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bibliography Parasite (PostHumanities) by Michel Serres

  August 16 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The Mind's I

  Now available for free online: The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul (ISBN 0-553-34584-2) is a 1981 book composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C.…

  August 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The Age of Semi-Post-Modernism

  It seems to me part of the problem is that the term "postmodernism" was always so muddy and abstract. To different people, it meant (at least) two different things. First of…

  August 16 2010, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark If the Earth Stood Still

  If the earth stood still, the oceans would gradually migrate toward the poles and cause land in the equatorial region to emerge. This would eventually result in a huge equatorial megacontinent…

  August 16 2010, 2:51am | Comments

• Wikipedia Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't comprehensive or authoritative, but it serves as a showcase of situations where people lose sight…

  August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark The internet: is it changing the way we think?

  Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". "Over the past…

  August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark SAME HAT! (tumblr)

  For folks that haven't checked it yet, the newly re-launched SAME HAT TUMBLR is up and running! The SAME HAT! Tumblr is curated and run by 8 contributors. It features art/videos/music…

  August 16 2010, 2:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Porn for the Blind

  Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge.

  August 16 2010, 2:27am | Comments

• Flickr Caterpillar, Raupe, Mittlerer Weinschwärmer, Deilephila elpenor

  August 14 2010, 12:42pm | Comments

• Metafilter Going (London) Underground The London Underground. Every Londoner has used it, but has everyone really seen it? The old map is looking a bit dusty. Perhaps its time for Geographic precision or maybe 3D projection. If we add bicycles to the map, is it still an…

  August 13 2010, 5:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The love of the high-end (book) heist

  Books have long been the object of desire, a desire that in intensity (among the susceptible) is stronger than for sex. Bibliomania, the obsession to possess books, was first recognised as…

  August 13 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Bookmark You're Dead. Now What?

  Will my enduring ghost be a mute witness to the goings-on down here, waving its vapory arms frantically at the undead? Or will it be an agent, endowed with the capacity…

  August 13 2010, 4:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Neandertal Brethren

  According to the late Harvard University biologist Ernst W. Mayr, the greatest evolutionary theorist since Charles Darwin, “species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated…

  August 13 2010, 4:27am | Comments

• Flickr Gensensambo and Horse

  August 12 2010, 12:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time

  Physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory – inspired by pencil lead – that could make it all very simple IT WAS a speech that changed…

  August 11 2010, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Your Move: The Maze of Free Will

  You may have heard of determinism, the theory that absolutely everything that happens is causally determined to happen exactly as it does by what has already gone before — right back…

  August 11 2010, 3:19am | Comments

• Bookmark The Limits of the Coded World

  In an influential article in the Annual Review of Neuroscience, Joshua Gold of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Shadlen of the University of Washington sum up experiments aimed at discovering…

  August 11 2010, 3:07am | Comments

• Bookmark The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

  Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated…

  August 11 2010, 1:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The 10 Most Disgusting Alien Civilizations

  We've dedicated this Power Grid to the most disgusting alien civilizations to ever grace the page, screen, or hard drive. Why is biology used as technology the easiest way to make…

  August 10 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Flickr Coralejo

  August 6 2010, 11:13am | Comments

• Flickr L'albufera de Valencia.

  August 6 2010, 8:06am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ The Fruitmarket Gallery - Martin Creed after lunch. Pub grub!

  August 6 2010, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Infinite Life

  A starry firmament, or sand cascading through one’s open fingers, or weeds springing up time after time: the first conception of infinity, of the uncountable and the unending, is not recorded,…

  August 5 2010, 3:18am | Comments

• Flickr forgotten

  August 3 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Flickr Swiftcurrent Lake #044

  August 2 2010, 9:27pm | Comments

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