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• foursquare checkin @ BentoRamen - Tonkotsu Ramen! Porky and delicious: 7.5 out of 10

  April 11 2011, 12:39pm | Comments

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• Tumblr Alfred Hitchcock’s Head. In A Refrigerator. With his wife

  April 11 2011, 12:51am | Comments

• Link Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of…

  In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a…

  April 9 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Link The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet…

  Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of…

  April 9 2011, 2:16am | Comments

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• Link Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design Hinge on Death…

  It may be the foundation of modern biology, but fewer than 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. While frustrated scientists sometimes blame religion for…

  April 7 2011, 3:39am | Comments

• Link The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings

  If you try to describe the living processes of the cell in a rather more living language than is typically found in the literature of molecular biology — if you…

  April 6 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

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  "Mabuse. Dr. Mabuse!"

  

  April 6 2011, 5:57am | Comments

• Instapaper The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby…

  April 6 2011, 2:16am | Comments

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• Link To Have Is to Owe

  We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a…

  April 5 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Link The last stand of the Amazon

  The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes…

  April 4 2011, 12:07pm | Comments

• Flickr GLTI.CH Karaoke

  April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• Instapaper What we cannot predict: An EDGE Special Event

  April 1 2011, 3:36am | Comments

• Link Capitalism's Dismal Future

  A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since…

  March 30 2011, 2:30am | Comments

• Link What we cannot predict

  "Risks are always interesting," writes George Dyson," especially in this case where you have such a mix of probabilities — the earthquake/tsunami that most agree was unpredictable, if inevitable, and…

  March 30 2011, 2:28am | Comments

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  Discover what?

  

  March 29 2011, 3:50pm | Comments

• Instapaper Do You Have Free Will? Yes, It’s the…

  March 27 2011, 11:21am | Comments

• Link Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame…

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing…

  March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments

• Miscellanous Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

• Link The Font of the Hand

  JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De…

  March 24 2011, 5:23pm | Comments

• Link Clovis People Weren’t First in Americas

  Archaeologists and other scientists report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science that excavations show hunter-gatherers were living at the Buttermilk Creek site and making projectile points, blades, choppers and…

  March 24 2011, 4:00pm | Comments

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  NEWS-FLASH: Introducing GLTI.CH/KARAOKE to all you #London / #Japan / Web-based funsters @gltich glti.ch ~ WATCH THIS SPACE #karaoke

  

  March 24 2011, 1:29am | Comments

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• foursquare checkin @ Cadogan Hall - Werner Herzog in conversation / #iq2herzog

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  March 20 2011, 4:04pm | Comments

• Link James Gleick’s History of Information

  Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information…

  March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments

• Link Where Do Animals Come From?

  The origin of animals was one of the most astonishing and important transformations in the history of life. From single-celled ancestors, they evolved into a riot of complexity and diversity.…

  March 20 2011, 5:37am | Comments

• Link The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress,…

  Movement. How did we come to politicize the concept of “movement” in our Western lexicon to begin with? Walzer interprets this as a product of Exodus thinking, where “the movement…

  March 20 2011, 5:35am | Comments

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  March 19 2011, 2:20pm | Comments

• Link 40th Anniversary of the Computer Virus

  This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300…

  March 16 2011, 2:50pm | Comments

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  Errors in Things & "The Friendly Medium" - my contribution to Coventry's Open Media podcast : t.co/w6rRQp1 thanks @Openreflections

  

  March 16 2011, 11:56am | Comments

• Link Can the Brain Explain Your Mind?

  Is studying the brain a good way to understand the mind? Does psychology stand to brain anatomy as physiology stands to body anatomy? In the case of the body, physiological…

  March 16 2011, 11:30am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: All Your Art Are Belong To Us All your art are belong to us. Previously, Rogert Ebert said that video games can never be art. And previously, some disagreed. In a recent opinion piece, game…

  March 16 2011, 10:12am | Comments

• Link Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and…

  [ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues…

  March 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments

• Link R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay

  R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay has been making the rounds lately and it sparked a healthy amount of curiosity and note-taking on my part that I felt I wanted to…

  March 15 2011, 7:59am | Comments

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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
• GLTI.CH Karaoke IV: Where Will You Sing?
• Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean
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• Thoughts on art practice PhDs
• And There It Was
• “Everything on the Face of the Earth”
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