meanderings

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:30:00 +0000

Much fuss is made of the fact that ‘now no-one does a whole lot of reading’ etc. etc. – all people really care about is the movies, even book page editors and reviewers. Poetry carries on, but the new factor in the poetry equation (writer/reader) is the custodial critic/curator / reviewer. Poets are used as counters between warring ideological tribes intent on rehabilitation or demolition.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:33:00 +0000

Write rhymes.

As you write, hold the alt key and click on a word to find a rhyme for it...

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:17:00 +0000

Verbiage Végétal

Ces arbres reposent sur une arborescence complexe composée des lettres de l’alphabet.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:16:00 +0000

DESKTOPOGRAPHY - Qaiyumi ~ Microscopical Abstraction

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:58:00 +0000

Technology Review: Strongest Material Ever Tested

If he could get a large enough piece of the material to lay over the top of a coffee cup, he says, graphene would be strong enough to support the weight of a car balanced atop the pencil.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:42:00 +0000

coupland.com ~ the gum theif ~ branding promo

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:45:00 +0000

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory.

David Chalmers: Physics requires information states but cares only about their relations, not their intrinsic nature; phenomenology requires information states, but cares only about their fundamental nature.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:34:00 +0000

kelly warman

"Within this idea of progression we have a paradoxical
storm that we are simultaneously attempting to avoid.
We all want to be new; newness is what perpetuates
all new ideas."

Kelly Warman & Tobias Laukemper,"ProgRock" DVD, 5:17 mins

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:59:00 +0000

Salon.com News | Apocalypse now

This new age, they explain, is defined both by the heating trend (whose closest analogue may be the catastrophe known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, 56 million years ago) and by the radical instability expected of future environments. In somber prose, they warn that "the combination of extinctions, global species migrations and the widespread replacement of natural vegetation with agricultural monocultures is producing a distinctive contemporary biostratigraphic signal. These effects are permanent, as future evolution will take place from surviving (and frequently anthropogenically relocated) stocks." Evolution itself, in other words, has been forced into a new trajectory.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:33:00 +0000

Lightmark | Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke | Hamburg | Germany

No.60 | N 70°26’36.5“ E 27°53’27.1“,Tanafjorden, Finnmark, Norway, 2007

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:45:00 +0000

The Decapitator - a set on Flickr

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:14:00 +0000

An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop''

My argument in I Am a Strange Loop is spelled out clearly. If a person's soul is truly a pattern, then it can be realized in different media. Wherever that pattern exists in a sufficiently fine-grained way, then it is, by my definition, the soul itself and not some kind of “mere simulation” of it.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:05:00 +0000

Annals of Medicine: The Itch: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

The account of perception that’s starting to emerge is what we might call the “brain’s best guess” theory of perception: perception is the brain’s best guess about what is happening in the outside world. The mind integrates scattered, weak, rudimentary signals from a variety of sensory channels, information from past experiences, and hard-wired processes, and produces a sensory experience full of brain-provided color, sound, texture, and meaning. We see a friendly yellow Labrador bounding behind a picket fence not because that is the transmission we receive but because this is the perception our weaver-brain assembles as its best hypothesis of what is out there from the slivers of information we get. Perception is inference.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:58:00 +0000

Hasan Elahi - Tracking Transience

"I've discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away"

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:38:00 +0000

HOW2

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:09:00 +0000

littleBits

littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:51:00 +0000

The Wondering Minstrels

(Warm, fuzzy description)

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:53:00 +0000

th_ gallo_s - H_NGM_N: an online journal of poetry, poetics &c.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:50:00 +0000

PAUL VERMEERSCH

Poetry and such.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:38:00 +0000

Catie Rosemurgy | New York | Kenyon Review Online

The people around us
sharpen slowly like teeth

in a mouth so crowded
it must remain open.

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:17:00 +0000

PLoS Biology - Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex

Structurally segregated and functionally specialized regions of the human cerebral cortex are interconnected by a dense network of cortico-cortical axonal pathways. By using diffusion spectrum imaging, we noninvasively mapped these pathways within and across cortical hemispheres in individual human participants. An analysis of the resulting large-scale structural brain networks reveals a structural core within posterior medial and parietal cerebral cortex, as well as several distinct temporal and frontal modules. Brain regions within the structural core share high degree, strength, and betweenness centrality, and they constitute connector hubs that link all major structural modules. The structural core contains brain regions that form the posterior components of the human default network. L

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:09:00 +0000

How old is the Internet?

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:14:00 +0000

George Carlin - Life is Worth Losing

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:58:00 +0000

Stellet Licht

noreply@blogger.com (jhave) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:06:00 +0000

Sarah Washington: Hearing in Tongues

An eight-part Radio Art series by Sarah Washington exploring the roots of language, communication and consciousness. The spoken text used as the basis for these pieces is the biblical story of The Tower of Babel from Genesis 11:1-9.

The series attempts to break down our understanding of language and challenge our relationship to meaning. The languages referenced include an array of tongues from Ancient Hebrew to Mandarin. Each episode is 3 minutes in length including a short introduction.