MachineMachine /stream - tagged with tools http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Your Computer Really Is a Part of You http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/heidegger-tools//your-computer-really-is-a-part-of-you “The tool isn’t separate from you. It’s part of you.” #Heidegger #technology #perception #tools ]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:50:17 -0700 http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/heidegger-tools//your-computer-really-is-a-part-of-you Man Is Not Cat Food http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/6243684487/man-is-not-cat-food In the last decade, human vanity has taken a major hit. Traits once thought to be uniquely, even definingly human have turned up in the repertoire of animal behaviors: tool use, for example, is widespread among non-human primates, at least if a stick counts as a tool. We share moral qualities, such as a capacity for altruism with dolphins, elephants and others; our ability to undertake cooperative ventures, such as hunting, can also be found among lions, chimpanzees and sharks. Chimps are also capable of “culture,” in the sense of socially transmitted skills and behaviors peculiar to a particular group… ]]> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:12:05 -0700 http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/6243684487/man-is-not-cat-food ImageGlitcher http://www.airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/imageglitcher/ Offsets images automatically to create simple, but effective glitches ]]> Wed, 25 May 2011 08:34:19 -0700 http://www.airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/imageglitcher/ This is an 808 Keychain Camera http://journal.benbashford.com/post/3029509797 Shanzai is the name used for a huge black market industry that (currently) specialises in making fake mobile phones in small factories. Basements. We’re not talking about a few phones either. The volume is terrifying. According to CCID Consulting in 2007 an estimated 150 million phones - 20% of the 750 million devices produced in China - were counterfeit or off brand.

Initially carbon copies of the genuine article, more recent shanzai phones sometimes add eccentric new features to meet the demands of the market and can produce them far quicker than the genuine manufacturers can adapt… ]]> Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:29:00 -0700 http://journal.benbashford.com/post/3029509797 Did Humans Make Tools, or Did Tools Make Humans? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/26/did-humans-make-tools-or-did-tools-make-humans/ Is our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, the first cyborg species? Gizmodo/New Scientist has a fascinating article up about how humans evolved as a result of technology. Timothy Taylor, an anthropologist and archaeologist at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom, submits a theory I am very inclined to believe: that humans evolved from tool-using proto-human primates. This evolutionary path resulted in a “survival of the weakest,” which Taylor explains:

Technology allows us to accumulate biological deficits: we lost our sharp fingernails because we had cutting tools, we lost our heavy jaw musculature thanks to stone tools.… ]]> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:14:00 -0700 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/26/did-humans-make-tools-or-did-tools-make-humans/ The Ship Argo http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/4593039926/in/set-72157624025953884/

Mr. Daniel posted a photo:

The Ship Argo

Extract from 'Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes', page 46

]]> Sun, 09 May 2010 12:37:00 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/4593039926/in/set-72157624025953884/ How Google Wave is Changing the News http://mashable.com/2009/11/22/news-media-google-wave/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29 It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still invitation only and in preview, the real-time wiki collaboration platform is being used by some media companies for community building, real-time discussion, crowdsourcing, collaboration both inside and outside the newsroom, and for cross publishing content. Google Wave (Google Wave) may seem familiar to older users of the Internet, who have been using the parts that make up the whole of the platform for years. Wave, however, brings those pieces… ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:17:00 -0700 http://mashable.com/2009/11/22/news-media-google-wave/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29 HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web http://mashable.com/2009/09/16/write-novel/ Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of writing a novel considerably easier and arguably more enjoyable. Here is a toolkit for using the web to write a book. If you know of any other great applications useful to aspiring writers, please leave them in the comments. ]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:27:00 -0700 http://mashable.com/2009/09/16/write-novel/ The Various Workings of a Cube-Shaped Gallery | Ask MetaFilter http://ask.metafilter.com/61272/The-Various-Workings-of-a-CubeShaped-Gallery Imagine a cube-shaped building, with ten cube-shaped rooms along each side (10 rooms long, 10 high & 10 deep). Each cubular room has 4 walls, 1 ceiling and 1 floor. Each of the 6 interior surfaces in all 1000 cubular rooms is decorated with a different pi ]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:39:00 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/61272/The-Various-Workings-of-a-CubeShaped-Gallery