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Bookmark NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar…
The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep crater…

June 23 2009, 1:39am | Comments
Bookmark Maastricht Ceramic Design
Petrus Regout (a name associated with worker exploitation even today) started a modern earthenware production factory in Maastricht, the capital of the far South-Eastern Dutch province of Limburg, in 1836. Sphinx…

June 22 2009, 9:08am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: Vectors of Computer Virus Infection What are the common form of Computer Virus spread these days? I remeber back in the day it was all about Word macros, then Outlook attachmets auto-running, but therse days is it all Internet Browser Exploits? How does your computer get infected these…

June 22 2009, 5:08am | Comments
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Discreet Music

June 21 2009, 8:47am | Comments
Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: Why do Japanese games go left to right? Why do so many (most?) classic Japanese side-scrolling games scroll left to right? Mario, Sonic, R-type, Megaman and plenty of other big names all go in the same direction. Why?

June 18 2009, 12:40pm | Comments
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The Malice of Inanimate Objects

June 18 2009, 6:34am | Comments
Bookmark The Gallery as Brain
At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique…

June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments
Bookmark Atlas Obscura
Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloguing all of the singular, eccentric,…

June 16 2009, 3:14pm | Comments
Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article
Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments
Bookmark Immortal Information
For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments
Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments
Misc Das Testament des Dr Mabuse (1933) - (Trailer)

June 13 2009, 4:33am | Comments
Misc The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) - (Full Movie)

June 13 2009, 4:31am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: Do languages ever shift from analytic to synthetic? Calling all historical linguists: do languages ever shift from being analytic to synthetic rather than vice versa?

June 12 2009, 4:45pm | Comments
Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists
It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments
Misc Voiceworks | Holly Pester A collaborartion between Joshua Kaye (composer) and Holly Pester (poet and text artist) Presidents Birds and Even At the conception of this project Kaye and Pester created a system of exchange and translation, developing shared concerns for chance operations, periphery speech sounds and…

June 11 2009, 12:08am | Comments
Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

June 10 2009, 6:55pm | Comments
Bibliography The Open Work

June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments
Misc Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual

June 8 2009, 1:06am | Comments
Bookmark Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism
Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

June 8 2009, 12:41am | Comments
Misc The Evolution of Religions

June 7 2009, 7:31am | Comments
Bookmark Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps
“When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like…

June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments
Bookmark How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race
This is a remarkably uninformed article about what effect a huge nuclear war would have upon the human race. The author seems to think that the radiation would create a race…

June 6 2009, 9:36am | Comments
Bookmark Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island
About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh…

June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: These marks in printer's ink The Táin lithographs In 1967 Louis le Brocquy was commissioned to illustrate Thomas Kinsella's translation of the great Irish prose epic the Táin Bó Cuailnge. The resulting collaborative volume is widely acknowledged as the great Irish Livre d'Artiste of the twentieth century; Le…

June 6 2009, 3:04am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: MonkeyFilter! II Ron Gilbert (Wikipedia) recently sat down with his game, The Secret of Monkey Island, and wrote a commentary track detailing the design, secrets, and cuts made in creating the game. (via)

June 5 2009, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,' 'Catching Fire' take path-breaking…
A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was "the…

June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks
People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees…

May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments
Bookmark Is There a Better Word for Doom?
Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word. In a report to be released the first week…

May 27 2009, 5:19pm | Comments
Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

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