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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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• 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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• 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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• 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…

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• Hello Grandad A gap here is longed for

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• 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

• Bookmark Critical Code Studies

  by Mark C. Marino The computer does not understand what it says. Literally speaking, the computer does not even interpret that code. When the function is called, the computer will print…

  June 21 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The Chess Master and the Computer

  In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next,…

  June 20 2010, 3:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book

  In the beginning was the Word. Then came Gutenberg, and it was good. But then came a giddy army of Japanese school girls, writing and “publishing" novels on cell phones. And…

  June 20 2010, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Yes, People Still Read, but Now It’s Social

  “THE point of books is to combat loneliness,” David Foster Wallace observes near the beginning of “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” David Lipsky’s recently published, book-length interview with…

  June 20 2010, 10:56am | Comments

• Bookmark As technology advances, deep reading suffers

  Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages, changed…

  June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments

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  Sometimes it's really hard to let go. Like that vinyl collection you've got stashed away in the attic or those VHS cassettes of movies that you've already replaced on DVD that…

  June 18 2010, 9:37am | Comments

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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

  June 27 2010, 5:24pm | Comments

• 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…

  June 27 2010, 10:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  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

  June 24 2010, 3:02am | Comments

• 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

  June 23 2010, 6:22am | Comments

• Tumblr via Michael Jackson memorabilia: This Is It exhibition at the O2 Bubble in Lo...

  June 22 2010, 2:20pm | Comments

• YouTube

  June 22 2010, 7:11am | Comments

• Vimeo

  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

• Bookmark Critical Code Studies

  by Mark C. Marino The computer does not understand what it says. Literally speaking, the computer does not even interpret that code. When the function is called, the computer will print…

  June 21 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The Chess Master and the Computer

  In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next,…

  June 20 2010, 3:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book

  In the beginning was the Word. Then came Gutenberg, and it was good. But then came a giddy army of Japanese school girls, writing and “publishing" novels on cell phones. And…

  June 20 2010, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Yes, People Still Read, but Now It’s Social

  “THE point of books is to combat loneliness,” David Foster Wallace observes near the beginning of “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” David Lipsky’s recently published, book-length interview with…

  June 20 2010, 10:56am | Comments

• Bookmark As technology advances, deep reading suffers

  Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages, changed…

  June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments

• Bookmark The new wave of retro gaming

  Sometimes it's really hard to let go. Like that vinyl collection you've got stashed away in the attic or those VHS cassettes of movies that you've already replaced on DVD that…

  June 18 2010, 9:37am | Comments

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