MachineMachine /stream - tagged with list http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,00.html/spiegel-interview-with-umberto-eco-we-like-lists-because-we-dont-want-to-die-spiegel-online-news-international Umberto Eco - "The list is the origin of culture... What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible" : http://t.co/daRqmUvj ]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:35:40 -0700 http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,00.html/spiegel-interview-with-umberto-eco-we-like-lists-because-we-dont-want-to-die-spiegel-online-news-international The 20 Best Videogames of 2011 http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/best-games-2011//the-20-best-videogames-of-2011-gamelife-wiredcom The 20 Best Videogames of 2011 http://t.co/EWfB5ml8 ]]> Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:35:20 -0700 http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/best-games-2011//the-20-best-videogames-of-2011-gamelife-wiredcom Technology Of Writing http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2733 Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources ]]> Wed, 11 May 2011 11:03:29 -0700 http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2733 The 10 Most Disgusting Alien Civilizations http://www.geekosystem.com/power-grid/The+10+Most+Disgusting+Alien+Civilizations/ We've dedicated this Power Grid to the most disgusting alien civilizations to ever grace the page, screen, or hard drive.

Why is biology used as technology the easiest way to make aliens seem alien? Why are the bad guys’ ships always covered in strange fluids and dubious orifices?

And for another thing! Why are the ships in Star Trek and Galaxy Quest so damp? ]]> Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:56:00 -0700 http://www.geekosystem.com/power-grid/The+10+Most+Disgusting+Alien+Civilizations/ The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-10/ff_smartlist Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with controversial, game-changing propositions. We found a prison reformer who wants to empty jails, an economist who thinks foreign aid hurts more than it helps, and a military theorist who believes the US should launch preemptive cyberattacks, right now. Then there's secretary of defense robert gates, who wants to win wars, not just prep for them. Risky? Sure. But this is no time to play it safe. ]]> Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:54:00 -0700 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-10/ff_smartlist The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-10/ff_smartlist Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with controversial, game-changing propositions. We found a prison reformer who wants to empty jails, an economist who thinks foreign aid hurts more than it helps, and a military theorist who believes the US should launch preemptive cyberattacks, right now. Then there's secretary of defense robert gates, who wants to win wars, not just prep for them. Risky? Sure. But this is no time to play it safe. ]]> Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:54:00 -0700 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-10/ff_smartlist 5 things http://hellograndad.com/post/653068078

With a heavy pencil Barry wrote up his list:

  1. Suck all chocolate off first
  2. Build heat-proof wrist sausage
  3. Do not be put off by ankles
  4. Use a sharp knife
  5. The plural of chipolata is chipolata

]]> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:43:00 -0700 http://hellograndad.com/post/653068078 The 'Basic' Plots in Literature http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html Q: I’ve heard there are only 7 (or 5, 20, 36…) basic plots (or themes) in all of literature. What are they?

A: People often say that there are only a certain number of basic plots in all of literature, and that any story is really just a variation on these plots. Depending on how detailed they want to make a "basic" plot, different writers have offered a variety of solutions. Here are some of the ones we’ve found:

1 Plot | 3 Plots | 7 Plots | 20 Plots | 36 Plots ]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:35:00 -0700 http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html 3quarksdaily Philosophy Competition (Judged by Daniel Dennet) http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/09/3qd-philosophy-prize-2009-finalists.html So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Professor Dan Dennett, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog name) 1. 3 Quarks Daily: Penne For Your Thought 2. Der Wille Zur Macht und Sprachspiele: Nietzsche's Causal Essentialism 3. Grundlegung: Philosophy as Bildung 4. Justin Erik Halldór Smith: The Fundamentals of Gelastics 5. PEA Soup: Scanlon on Moral Responsibility and Blame 6. The Immanent Frame: Immanent Spirituality 7. Tomkow: Blackburn, Truth and other Hot Topics 8. Underverse: Refuting "It," Thus 9. Wide Scope: Emotions and Moral Skepticism ]]> Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:37:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/09/3qd-philosophy-prize-2009-finalists.html Fifty Books for Our Times http://www.newsweek.com/id/204300?digg=1 We know it's insane. We know people will ask why on earth we think that an 1875 British satirical novel is the book you need to read right now—or, for that matter, why it even made the cut. The fact is, no one needs another best-of list telling you how great The Great Gatsby is. What we do need, in a world with precious little time to read (and think), is to know which books—new or old, fiction or nonfiction—open a window on the times we live in, whether they deal directly with the issues of today or simply help… ]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:43:00 -0700 http://www.newsweek.com/id/204300?digg=1