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on Blade Runner, the future, and paper
critique/parody of ToT's The Graveyard
"a term of art used in philosophy for sensory occurrences of all kinds. (...) Clarence Irving Lewis, who considered them distinct from the properties of objects. To carry the definition further than the non-committal phrase ‘sensory occurrences’ is at once to enter into controversial territory."
by Leigh Alexander
Internet Memetics and Fads
"explores the problems and possibilities of computer-controlled scent output (...) with particular emphasis on the role of scent in information display in a variety of media (...) explore the use of computer-controlled olfactory display"
"Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is." aww <3
microformats as proteins, webistes as finite-state machines, abstraction modifier drugs, etc...
"Where GTD meets blog"
on B-Games, comparing videogames and movies, stories, gameplay, and stuff.. read the comments too
""Dual reality" is the concept of maintaining two worlds, one virtual and one real, that reflect, influence, and merge into each other by means of deeply embedded sensor/actuator networks."
"There's never really been any stigma associated with sharing or using the works of others," says British musician, journalist and Trojan producer Laurence Cane-Honeysett. "If anything, to most it's regarded as a compliment."