January 2012
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Nullsleep | Jeremiah Johnson: How to Disable Image... →
nullsleep: There used to be a time when images that were resized would retain their sharp edges, but several years ago web browsers began implementing image smoothing. I’ve always enjoyed being able to look more closely at the details in drawings online, but the experience is hampered when the pixels are…
Jan 24th
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Evolution: New Category [ThePirateBay] →
We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles.
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The Problem with Gamification... →
…is that it tries to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. We already have a universal points system, across all aspects of life, that represents status and is redeemable for real world prizes. It’s called “money.”
Jan 19th
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Zero-player game →
In computer games, the term refers to programs that use artificial intelligence rather than human players. *bummer* (via hervao)
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“Christianity appropriated and neutralized this traditional iconoclastic gesture,...”
– Groys, The Curator as Iconoclast
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“In general, the results could not be combined in an overarching model, and were...”
– What’s wrong with scientific research?
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Mayor, Mock Us →
But most notably, Mockus’ creativity shone when it came to stemming Bogota’s rampant traffic-related fatalities.  First, he painted the streets with 1,500 or so stars, each signifying where a pedestrian was struck by a car and ultimately died.  But that wasn’t enough.  As reported by the Harvard University Gazette (replete with must-see picture), Mockus surmised that his constituents were not...
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Speed of Light Lingers in Face of New Camera →
The project began as a whimsical effort to literally see around corners — by capturing reflected light and then computing the paths of the returning light, thereby building images coming from rooms that would otherwise not be directly visible.
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November 2011
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Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard →
[…] the more convinced I become that what we encounter in a novel is not selves, but networks; that what we hear in poems is (to use the language of communications technology) not signal but noise via andreisp
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