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• Wikipedia Coriolis effect In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. For example, consider two children on opposite sides of a spinning roundabout (carousel), who are throwing a ball to each other. From…

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• Flickr Las bicis de Ana y Juande.

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• Bookmark Transitzone/ Against an Aesthetics of Noise

  Ray Brassier – My stance is not particularly original: it’s indebted to the work of several more genuinely original philosophers. The confluence of their influence in my thinking represents my attempt…

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• Bibliography The Inner Touch

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  A head spinning new take on the classic videogame. Play it until your sense of direction explodes.

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• Bookmark From Eternity to Here

  The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is so…

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• Bookmark Sleep Talkin' Man

  My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only fair…

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• Bookmark The World Question Center 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way…

  Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and…

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• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

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• Bookmark Divine Wilderness

  PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the Tabernacle…

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• Bookmark When the Meganovel Shrank

  It seems significant, somehow, that Infinite Jest—the big buzzy signature meganovel of the nineties—was set at the end of the aughts. Most of the book’s action appears to take place in…

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• Bookmark Theology for atheists

  Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself has…

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• Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

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• Bookmark Evidence of Everything Exploding

  A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

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• Bookmark The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009

  Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009,…

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• Metafilter MeFi: I shared my flesh with thinking cancer The Things - The Thing from the point of view of the thing, by Peter Watts (previously, previously, previously)

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• Bookmark Art Fag City » The Best of Web 2009!

  Here’s a better model for year-end link lists: Only chose one link! I asked 18 of my favorite professionals to do just this, leaving the subject matter completely at their discretion.…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

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• Bookmark Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider

  Among the defining attributes of now are ever tinier gadgets, ever shorter attention spans, and the privileging of marketplace values above all. Life is manically parceled into financial quarters, three-minute YouTube…

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  The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout thinks future generations will consider itunes, youtube, and Kindle a more important cultural development than anything it distributes. He’s right to point out the huge…

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• Bookmark Myriahedral projection maps of the world

  A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the…

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• Bookmark When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?

  Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest…

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• Flickr Plastic sneeuwstormbeschermer / Face protection from snowstorms

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• Wikipedia Coriolis effect In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. For example, consider two children on opposite sides of a spinning roundabout (carousel), who are throwing a ball to each other. From…

  January 20 2010, 5:57am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 20 2010, 5:47am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 17 2010, 4:00am | Comments

• Flickr Las bicis de Ana y Juande.

  January 15 2010, 10:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Transitzone/ Against an Aesthetics of Noise

  Ray Brassier – My stance is not particularly original: it’s indebted to the work of several more genuinely original philosophers. The confluence of their influence in my thinking represents my attempt…

  January 15 2010, 4:38am | Comments

• Bibliography The Inner Touch

  January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark First-Person Tetris

  A head spinning new take on the classic videogame. Play it until your sense of direction explodes.

  January 15 2010, 2:58am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 13 2010, 4:39am | Comments

• Bookmark From Eternity to Here

  The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is so…

  January 12 2010, 2:15am | Comments

• Flickr Special Man

  January 11 2010, 10:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 11 2010, 7:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Sleep Talkin' Man

  My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only fair…

  January 9 2010, 6:24am | Comments

• Bookmark The World Question Center 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way…

  Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and…

  January 8 2010, 9:55am | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Divine Wilderness

  PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the Tabernacle…

  January 8 2010, 9:02am | Comments

• Bookmark When the Meganovel Shrank

  It seems significant, somehow, that Infinite Jest—the big buzzy signature meganovel of the nineties—was set at the end of the aughts. Most of the book’s action appears to take place in…

  January 8 2010, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Theology for atheists

  Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself has…

  January 8 2010, 2:29am | Comments

• Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

  January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 6 2010, 4:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Evidence of Everything Exploding

  A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

  January 5 2010, 7:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009

  Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009,…

  January 5 2010, 7:50am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: I shared my flesh with thinking cancer The Things - The Thing from the point of view of the thing, by Peter Watts (previously, previously, previously)

  January 4 2010, 12:27pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 3 2010, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Art Fag City » The Best of Web 2009!

  Here’s a better model for year-end link lists: Only chose one link! I asked 18 of my favorite professionals to do just this, leaving the subject matter completely at their discretion.…

  January 3 2010, 3:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 29 2009, 10:57am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider

  Among the defining attributes of now are ever tinier gadgets, ever shorter attention spans, and the privileging of marketplace values above all. Life is manically parceled into financial quarters, three-minute YouTube…

  December 25 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Technology is Not the End of Artistic Trends

  The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout thinks future generations will consider itunes, youtube, and Kindle a more important cultural development than anything it distributes. He’s right to point out the huge…

  December 23 2009, 3:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Myriahedral projection maps of the world

  A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the…

  December 23 2009, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?

  Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest…

  December 23 2009, 2:24am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 19 2009, 7:55am | Comments

• Flickr Plastic sneeuwstormbeschermer / Face protection from snowstorms

  December 18 2009, 5:25am | Comments

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