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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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  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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• 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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• 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…

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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…

  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…

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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…

  June 29 2010, 8:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  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

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• Flickr On the road again

  June 27 2010, 10:58am | 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…

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• 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…

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• Hello Grandad A cube is a shape in three dimensions

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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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• Wikipedia Anatomy of a wiki-hoax

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• 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…

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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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