As reported in a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, scientists discovered the...

Here are some experiments that I did yesterday (marbling paper). Hooray. I feel like shit. But you...

This post was originally composed for my blog and published many moons ago. Since its conception my...

What Hope for real Change in America? "With slogans promising Hope, Belief and Change, there is a surge of excitement around the US presidential primaries. But can anybody tell us what the Obama-Clinton contest is about?" "Search high and low for the candidates’ clear political positions and principles, and if you find any do...

ColleX (The, A): {Noun, Plural: ColleXes} A descriptive term constructed of the terms...

The evolutionary prospect of an ethical criterion Evolution is blind. No scientific theory...

Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn...

Steve Fossett successfully circumnavigated the globe in the Bud Light Spirit of Freedom, a Rozière...

Brian Jones (UK) and Bertrand Piccard (SUI) successfully circumnavigated the globe in the Breitling...

This program is still full of bugs. Though it is written in Java it appears to work only on certain windows machines. The major improvement of this release is that it opens with a list of commands printed on the screen ( which can be turned on and off by pressing '/' or '?' ). Audio, Video, modes have been disabled in this version because they...

Cause, Principle, and Unity - Gordon Terry This acrylic piece has an organic feel to it,...

"The big demonstrations in London and Washington against the US attack on Iraq a few years ago offer an exemplary case of this strange symbiotic relationship between power and resistance. Their paradoxical outcome was that both sides were satisfied. The protesters saved their beautiful souls: they made it clear that they don’t agree with...

A few years ago, I watched a movie called "I Heart Huckabees." I immediately fell in love...

Zero Emissions No Noise...and you can fit 12 cases of beer in the back. I'm proud to be a...

originally posted by thelogos as discussed in class emergence seems to happen from a set of...

The games become tools. Tools become games

1. I found this picture interesting because it's a fractal, but it was still able to achieve a...

Mars sux cuz its sun is way tinier than ours.

Dark depths of mystery, Ancient and true, Nimble consciousness, In the creature...

how is it we can understand when speaking speaking speaking filling space fragile...

SOUL FLIPPER (by Coop Himmelblau*) is a.... face helmet that is sensitized to react to...

Project Proposal: There are hundreds of thousands of books published every year. Many are...

The Blue Brain Project: Visualization of activity in the neocortical column of the brain....

Biology and social order Social organization is considered to be the platform of culture....

Since 11 Sept 2001 and the creation of the DHS which followed, some people (How many? I don't know) entering the US have been subjected to a variety of humiliations. Every Internet news savvy leftist and civil libertarian is familiar with stories of unwarranted detentions, deportations, odd "security" interrogations and so...

Quote from George Steiner, the greatest evolutionist in language. Found in...

We call wildflowers weeds, and we pull them out of our tame tidy gardens. The butterflies go away...

Sometimes a simple process is enough to achieve a rich effect. Paper marbling is a technique I have...

image 1: in the context of space collective: The underlying spirit of Erwin Wurm's sculpture is described, in the online catalogue, as a "dynamic act" as opposed to a "static object." For the most part, I guess it is perhaps the evidence of a 'process' behind the car's obesity that gives this static piece its dynamism,...

Skyscraper Airport of Tomorrow - via BoingBoing .. a 200 story building capped by and...

Ahh... Space Collective here I am. The first assignment was to find two images and research and...

A magnectic particle simulation done in processing by Robert Hodgin. Particles follow simple...

An excerpt from an older, but still intriguing, article about what may happen to the human race in...

FILL / SPACE Develop a generative, emergent process to fill space (2D or 3D) using only black lines. Modify a known process or invent your own. Implement your process as object-oriented, full-screen software, in Processing. You may work individually or with a partner. There are five phases: research, concept, prototype, refine, document....

I present in this post two pictures of the Internet. Both depict data and the inherently invisible...

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3x4' Watercolor, pen, pencil, and whatever else I had in my desk.

3x4' watercolor, pen, pencil, whatever else I had in my desk.

Computer Models The first nCUBE machines to be released were the nCUBE 10 of late 1985. These were based on a set of custom chips, including a 32-bit ALU and a 64-bit IEEE 754 FPU with 128kB of RAM combined onto a board known as a module. Each module delivered 2 MIPS, 500 kiloflops (32-bit single precision), or 300 kiloflops (64-bit double...

Here is the question: can we think without language? A recent piece on Cognitive Daily (one of the...

A couple of days ago I laid out a handful of perspectives in Part I of a Manifesto for the...

Presentation given at "Physics of Consciousness" conference, Virginia, 2004, in which...