Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Carolyn Strauss and Julian Bleecker's slowMail is an ema... deliberately slows down the pace of electronic correspon... experiences of reflection and mindful interaction that a...
Contrary to traditional email, which is expected to be d ...
slowMail wa

What is computation?
Journal Synthese
Publisher Springer Netherlands
ISSN 0039-7857 (Print) 1573-0964 (Online)
... that have been made to the computational theory of mind.

Searle's abstract argument against strong AI
Journal Synthese
Publisher Springer Netherlands
ISSN 0039-7857 (Print) 1573-0964 (Online)
... to defend itself against objections Searle makes to it.

The democratizing technologies of the web have brought t... raw-materials required to make a map to a wider audience... This proliferation of mapping has redefined modern Carto... general practice of “making maps” to the purposefu... Purposeful

These would be the successive phases of the image:
1 It is the reflection of a basic reality.
2 It masks and perverts a basic reality.
3 It masks the absence of a basic reality.
4 It bears no relation to any reality whatever: it is it ...

Sorry, you can't have my magical idea chair, but if you ... let you use it for a few minutes

Palo Alto, 2003. Keep people at the center of your work!... help. Look at what they do. Learn from the facts you gat... yourself! Ideo has become a leader in design by keeping ... center of the design process. These cards show some of t... to inspire

The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportu... the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social in... variety of contexts. Such popularity, in fact, is making... amounts of raw data from online semiotic systems (for ex... collaborati

Digital Creativity is a major peer-reviewed journal at t... the creative arts and digital technologies. It carries a... interest to those involved in the practical task of maki... software for creative purposes. By the term �creative ... such discip

The well-established Creativity Research Journal publish... scholarly research capturing the full range of approache... creativity--behavioral, clinical, cognitive, cross-cultu... educational, genetic, organizational, psychoanalytic, ps... social. Int

At the heart of the Art Maps project is an exploration o... the future museum. Throughout the project we have been c... kinds of ideas and meanings – both personal and art hi... audiences might generate around artworks and geographica... Furthermore

American culture worships creativity, but mostly in the ... people really don't like new ideas that sound entirely n... the experts that often have to approve them. The trick i... new ideas as old ideas—to make your creativity seem, w... creative.

There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl...
Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ...
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ...
... g of a cleve

The strange world of urban exploration
Urban explorers scale skyscrapers, jump fences, lift man ...

DataShine, a new census data visualisation tool from Oli... UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, shows ‘n... hotspots in Brighton, Bristol and Norwich; while Bradfor... clearly split and Liverpool keeps the faith. Dark blue a... least 39.5%

In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter,... required to do several things at once. But this constant... taking its toll. Here neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin ex... addiction to technology is making us less efficient

Illuminating cities with sustainable smart lighting systems
Lights that switch off automatically when streets are em ...
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... a city-lighting system that's both sustainable and fun.

The Art
Aurora 18×18 + Audio Interface Video
Here’s a video showing how Aurora 18×18 works with th ...
Aurora 9×18 mk2 will work the same way, except with onl ...
... will start shipping the kits as soon as I have the PCBs.

A TimeMap is an interactive graphic showing change over ... is linked to descriptions of the change being shown.
The TimeMap of World History covers human history at dif ...
We also have a growing range of Topic TimeMaps which tak ...

What is Literature?
A Definition Based on Prototypes
Jim Meyer
(10 pages, 49 Kb)
... ad aesthetically, and containing many weak implicatures.

European Neanderthals were dying off and already on the ... even before the arrival of competing modern humans, Swed... say.
Scientists said a study of ancient DNA indicates most Ne ...

So, it was easy to live together in such a small space.
So, it was easy to live together in such a small space.
dailymail.co.uk
This couple proves that bigger isn’t necessarily better.

rian Marick, Boundary Objects
An analytical concept from science studies: does it appl ...

In October 2006, I was away on a business trip when a fr... event destroyed the contents of my family’s rural home... oncoming five-foot wall of water, my wife had little tim... possessions. For all the things we lost that day, I stil...
I’ve hear

Just beyond the Cemmo Boulders there is the area of Sera... divided into four sectors. Most figures of this area dat... and the Iron Age (from the end of the third till the fir... B.C.). The rocks have small dimensions and present many ...
The upper p

English is the language of Shakespeare and the language ... spoken in dozens of countries around the world, from the... tiny island named Tristan da Cunha. It reflects the infl... of international exchange, including conquest and coloni... Vikings thr

We will widen the ownership of homes