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• Bookmark This Is The Only Level

  This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

  August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cheapest way from Tokyo to Kumamoto? Last minute Japan travel: after making an error with timing I need to arrange one-way travel from Tokyo to Kumamoto quite quickly. What are the cheapest options? I have looked into flights and trains (for the 17th of August) and both seem expensive…

  August 11 2009, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers

  To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

  August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments

• Bookmark How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

  Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists,…

  August 8 2009, 4:41pm | Comments

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• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man

  Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the life…

  August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to fake science, history and religion

  One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true…

  August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Higher Arithmetic - How to count to a Zillion

  Last year the National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of digits. The billboard-size electronic counter, mounted on a wall near Times Square, overflowed when the public debt reached…

  August 5 2009, 3:32am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Under Pressure How would you get through a black hole?

  August 3 2009, 6:29pm | Comments

• YouTube

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• Bookmark 'Rosetta stone' offers digital storage for 1000 years

  Researchers working in Japan say they might have the breakthrough archivists are praying for - a sealed permanent memory bank that will be easily readable now and far into the next…

  July 30 2009, 2:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Smart machines: What's the worst that could happen?

  An invasion led by artificially intelligent machines. Conscious computers. A smartphone virus so smart that it can start mimicking you. You might think that such scenarios are laughably futuristic, but some…

  July 30 2009, 1:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is Star Trek A Religion?

  Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the natives…

  July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments

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  July 30 2009, 10:17am | Comments

• Twitter

  26 baboons and a helium balloon

  July 29 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared

  In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus,…

  July 27 2009, 6:10pm | Comments

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  July 27 2009, 6:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Gravity Sucks at the BFI

  Simon Faithfull's exhibition Gravity Sucks and his recent talk at the British Film Institute focuses largely around his examination of that most elementary of forces we experience. What Wikipedia calls a…

  July 27 2009, 6:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss - The Film

  This is the whole of the experimental film, It Felt Like a Kiss. It was the basis of the show [Adam Curtis] did in Manchester with Punchdrunk. The show may well…

  July 27 2009, 5:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker

  I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

  July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 27 2009, 5:37pm | Comments

• Flickr Kenner Kane Figure from ALIEN

  July 25 2009, 1:32pm | Comments

• Flickr Wat Yai Chai Mongkol

  July 23 2009, 11:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art-Work of the Future

  AS Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously evolved.…

  July 22 2009, 4:37pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to Change the Song in your Head

  You've been singing the theme to The Love Boat for hours now, and you're becoming unmoored. If a song is on an unfinished loop, "sing it through all the way, or…

  July 22 2009, 4:05pm | Comments

• YouTube

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  July 21 2009, 5:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast

  The dish contains a variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, known in culinary circles as baker's or brewer's yeast. But Cano didn't get this from Whole Foods. Back in 1995, he extracted it…

  July 20 2009, 7:01pm | Comments

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• Bookmark This Is The Only Level

  This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

  August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cheapest way from Tokyo to Kumamoto? Last minute Japan travel: after making an error with timing I need to arrange one-way travel from Tokyo to Kumamoto quite quickly. What are the cheapest options? I have looked into flights and trains (for the 17th of August) and both seem expensive…

  August 11 2009, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers

  To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

  August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments

• Bookmark How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

  Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists,…

  August 8 2009, 4:41pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 7 2009, 9:13am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man

  Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the life…

  August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to fake science, history and religion

  One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true…

  August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Higher Arithmetic - How to count to a Zillion

  Last year the National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of digits. The billboard-size electronic counter, mounted on a wall near Times Square, overflowed when the public debt reached…

  August 5 2009, 3:32am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Under Pressure How would you get through a black hole?

  August 3 2009, 6:29pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 2 2009, 10:49am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 30 2009, 4:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'Rosetta stone' offers digital storage for 1000 years

  Researchers working in Japan say they might have the breakthrough archivists are praying for - a sealed permanent memory bank that will be easily readable now and far into the next…

  July 30 2009, 2:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Smart machines: What's the worst that could happen?

  An invasion led by artificially intelligent machines. Conscious computers. A smartphone virus so smart that it can start mimicking you. You might think that such scenarios are laughably futuristic, but some…

  July 30 2009, 1:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is Star Trek A Religion?

  Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the natives…

  July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 30 2009, 10:17am | Comments

• Twitter

  26 baboons and a helium balloon

  July 29 2009, 4:37am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared

  In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus,…

  July 27 2009, 6:10pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 27 2009, 6:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Gravity Sucks at the BFI

  Simon Faithfull's exhibition Gravity Sucks and his recent talk at the British Film Institute focuses largely around his examination of that most elementary of forces we experience. What Wikipedia calls a…

  July 27 2009, 6:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss - The Film

  This is the whole of the experimental film, It Felt Like a Kiss. It was the basis of the show [Adam Curtis] did in Manchester with Punchdrunk. The show may well…

  July 27 2009, 5:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker

  I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

  July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 27 2009, 5:37pm | Comments

• Flickr Kenner Kane Figure from ALIEN

  July 25 2009, 1:32pm | Comments

• Flickr Wat Yai Chai Mongkol

  July 23 2009, 11:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art-Work of the Future

  AS Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously evolved.…

  July 22 2009, 4:37pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to Change the Song in your Head

  You've been singing the theme to The Love Boat for hours now, and you're becoming unmoored. If a song is on an unfinished loop, "sing it through all the way, or…

  July 22 2009, 4:05pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 21 2009, 5:33pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 21 2009, 5:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast

  The dish contains a variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, known in culinary circles as baker's or brewer's yeast. But Cano didn't get this from Whole Foods. Back in 1995, he extracted it…

  July 20 2009, 7:01pm | Comments

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