Jukebots. A graphic novel of mine, featuring a mechanized band of robot jazz musicians. Not being...

It was the silence of her thoughts that awakened him He looked at her beautiful dolphin like shape; her legs folded within the larger transmutation she had undergone yesterday, her turquoise bluish tint reflected by the morning light. She needed no cover, her self-regulating nanobots thermostat taking care of her comfort zone temperature....

“To think what thought is not prepared to think is that which alone deserves the name of...

Background: This is a paper I wrote in freshman year of college for a comparative literature...

A New Direction In AI Research Monica Anderson proposes adding a new target to ongoing AI...

Like the last year, at Spanish Mobile Adobe User Group enjoys celebrating the Mobile World Congress...

The anomaly had seized the sensor status. “You have exactly 15 minutes to comply or...

The Holy Evolution Image: The Tree of Intoxication "Gonds make liquor from the...

Junto & beyond - further generations and explanations coming soon. also find full image...

This huge monument of Stonehengian ambitions was erected in 1980 [the year I was born] in...

Fail Safe How secure must we be to take risks? Does anonymity play a big role in how you...

Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or...

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is...

Hi, i'm interested in auditioning for the Translucent Ham Sandwich Band. Does Anyone know their email? Please let me know, Thanks! Dave

Lyrics, say something like: 'With each breath, We fall into that love. Let's not struggle, When...

This video took me 6 hours to squeeze over Comcast DSL, only 60M.

Encoding and decoding appear in contemporary context as a fundamental feature of technology, in our...

We are never as free as we once were at the moment of our birth. We enter this world with no...

. . . this must be what it feels / looks like. This must be what it is. Just. WOW. Amazing work...

This is just a little funny post, as a result of the fact that I'm sick and have to stay home. So I came across cleverbot and had a little fun with it. You should too if you're bored or just extremely lonely. Here's the conversation: User: Hi. Cleverbot: Hi. User: How are you today? Cleverbot: Awesome and you. User: I'm...

“Who wants to write this up?” Skullective asked the others who remained mingling at the...

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and...

In order for anything to be infinite, it would have to eventually exist in every incarnation of...

“But if we’re no good at cleaning up the shit we’ve sowed, if we’re incapable of taking...

Over the past few months, we've been discussing the various skills needed for effectively operating in a world characterized by information and accelerating change, and I've been assembling these ideas into a framework for a new thought architecture. This post will be the first in a 12 part series, and draws its influences from the fields of...

Follow-up to: Knowing beyond science and mathematics? I think I have to clarify why I mentioned mathematics in my recent post -- Knowing beyond science and mathematics? -- as a way of knowing in addition to science and separated from other logical systems. First of all, I'm only at the beginning of my long journey towards a decent...

Hard to simulate, but easy to amplify, my experience of consciousness, is interactions, of an infinite number of abstractions. The universe is the set of all permutation, and combination of abstract information. I am math. Derive me, and if I could derive you too, we would have a strange-loop confusing the future you. But what of the...

silverpower: Is humanity even worth saving? starglider: As opposed to what? silverpower: ...hmm. -- #sl4 If you ever asked yourself if you are just a waste of space the simple truth is NO. First of all, there is enough space for everyone. Furthermore, there isn’t always a third option, sometimes not even a second one....

The above jpegs are an excerpt from my design project on exploring this intuitive habit of...

3V: “ there is something I do not understand about you humans NotMArie.. NotMarie: “what now? 3V: “its about your problem solving capability.. NotMarie:” o! We are very good at solving problems.. Well sometimes we are, sometimes we simply have to wait until the solution presents itself.. 3V:” no, no, it is not about that,...

Monica Anderson discusses the ongoing paradigm shift - the "Holistic Shift" - which...

H. H. Sri Swami Satchidananda speaks about how to find permanent happiness by not getting...

Merc’s fingers drummed in thought which called up a few billion matching rhythms from search....

If M. Rule were commercial, he would have taken that clothes himself!

Brian Robertson wrote the Rule of Individual Action: No matter how clearly we’ve defined the rules, policies, and processes, we will occasionally see a need for action which doesn’t fit within the defined system. In most organizations we're tempted to hide such Individual Action for fear of blame, but doing so costs the...

A scanning project by Michael Vlasopoulos powered by an excessive compulsive scanner.

GUATEMALA CITY — Maria del Carmen de Ramirez's house is just as she left it when she fled into...

The mental life of your common or garden human, however, is a lot more complicated. That's because we are "aware of being aware". This allows us to reflect upon ourselves and our feelings and, in an ideal world, make insightful decisions and judgements. This state, dubbed secondary consciousness, is thought to be unique to humans.

There are so many ways of metaphorically modeling and understanding the true nature of reality,...

The harshly aphasic will become the mystic. The micro-serf conjugates. This, the hippie...