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• 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

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Atheism definition aka Philosophy 101 Is atheism the belief that there are no gods or the lack of belief in existence of gods? This is philosophy 101 but I honestly keep finding different definitions claimed by atheists. Can someone clarify? (and if my question is phrased poorly, please…

  May 26 2009, 8:58am | Comments

• Twitter

  The act of engagement with art is itself an object, an artefact, in need of reflection

  May 26 2009, 8:50am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Conversations from the past Are there any good sources for accurate transcriptions of historical conversations? I am very interested in history, but am getting a little bored of primarily reading descriptions of things that happened, and would rather see actual conversations. In some ways I'm even more…

  May 25 2009, 9:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Way more about paths at UC Berkeley than you'd ever want to…

  How architectural and design choices are mediated and ultimately over-ruled by user choice, reflexion, repetition and desire.

  May 25 2009, 12:21pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

  May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Closure

  A surreal spectacle of a game, balanced half-way between the whole and the gap

  May 24 2009, 3:04pm | Comments

• Misc Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness

  May 24 2009, 2:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of Life

  How did life arise from inorganic matter? Our progress on this question has been impeded by a formidable cognitive barrier. Because we perceive a deep gap when we think about the…

  May 23 2009, 4:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for…

  The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model…

  May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…

  The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront of…

  May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments

• Misc Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party All night time-lapse video of sky over Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas taken with 15mm fisheye lens. Stars, constellations, meteors and satellites can be seen passing overhead for most of the evening. The video ends with the bright galactic core of…

  May 20 2009, 9:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark The disembodied book

  In the shadows of the global financial crisis of the early 21st century, another revolution is gathering pace, whose repercussions reach far beyond the current correctable economic buckling. It impact on…

  May 17 2009, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds

  Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular.…

  May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments

• Flickr Brian Dettmer, Key Monuments #2

  May 13 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Archive or algorithm?

  May 6 2009, 4:26am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Bookmark MachineAnimalCollages

  Fantastic meat landscapes and animals made of machinery

  May 5 2009, 1:02am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Flickr The performance space

  May 1 2009, 6:23am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

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• 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

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Atheism definition aka Philosophy 101 Is atheism the belief that there are no gods or the lack of belief in existence of gods? This is philosophy 101 but I honestly keep finding different definitions claimed by atheists. Can someone clarify? (and if my question is phrased poorly, please…

  May 26 2009, 8:58am | Comments

• Twitter

  The act of engagement with art is itself an object, an artefact, in need of reflection

  May 26 2009, 8:50am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Conversations from the past Are there any good sources for accurate transcriptions of historical conversations? I am very interested in history, but am getting a little bored of primarily reading descriptions of things that happened, and would rather see actual conversations. In some ways I'm even more…

  May 25 2009, 9:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Way more about paths at UC Berkeley than you'd ever want to…

  How architectural and design choices are mediated and ultimately over-ruled by user choice, reflexion, repetition and desire.

  May 25 2009, 12:21pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the…

  May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Closure

  A surreal spectacle of a game, balanced half-way between the whole and the gap

  May 24 2009, 3:04pm | Comments

• Misc Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness

  May 24 2009, 2:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of Life

  How did life arise from inorganic matter? Our progress on this question has been impeded by a formidable cognitive barrier. Because we perceive a deep gap when we think about the…

  May 23 2009, 4:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for…

  The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model…

  May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…

  The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront of…

  May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments

• Misc Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party All night time-lapse video of sky over Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas taken with 15mm fisheye lens. Stars, constellations, meteors and satellites can be seen passing overhead for most of the evening. The video ends with the bright galactic core of…

  May 20 2009, 9:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark The disembodied book

  In the shadows of the global financial crisis of the early 21st century, another revolution is gathering pace, whose repercussions reach far beyond the current correctable economic buckling. It impact on…

  May 17 2009, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds

  Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular.…

  May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments

• Flickr Brian Dettmer, Key Monuments #2

  May 13 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Archive or algorithm?

  May 6 2009, 4:26am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Bookmark MachineAnimalCollages

  Fantastic meat landscapes and animals made of machinery

  May 5 2009, 1:02am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Flickr The performance space

  May 1 2009, 6:23am | Comments

• Bibliography The Language of New Media

  April 27 2009, 10:12am | Comments

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