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kottke.org: What’s Shane Carruth been up to since Primer?
kottke.org: What’s Shane Carruth been up to since Primer? jkottke: Primer is one of my favorite films. Director Shane Carruth famously made it for just $7,000 and the film found release in 2004, winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance that year. Carruth has been fairly quiet since then but he seems to be working…
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Young kids think and learn about their surroundings much the way that scientists think and learn in advanced experiments, a new study says. They form hypotheses, test them, analyze their findings and learn from their actions and the actions of others — all in child’s play. A growing body of evidence about this style of…
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thisistheverge: More human than human: how Philip K. Dick can change your life Jesse Hicks talks to Jonathan Lethem, John Alan Simon, and other ‘Dickheads’ about PKD’s enduring legacy. In Dick’s worlds, people could be shits and robots could be more human than human. It all came down to whether they could find within themselves…
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prostheticknowledge: Espresso Book Machine Publishing system can create retail-quality printed books from file to bound copy in five minutes – video below: The patented Espresso Book Machine® (EBM) makes a paperback book in minutes, at point of need. Through its EspressNet® digital catalog of content, books can be ordered online or onsite at bookstores, libraries,…
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There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course you heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please…
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floresuprm: A Close Reading of William Gibson’s “Agrippa” (part 3 of 3) The link above is not to Agrippa, but to an important part of the poem: the linguistic and graphical codes extracted from the disk image by Freek Wiedijk— that is, the sequence of words arranged visually into line breaks, indentation, and stanzas, often…