On some days, I really need reassurance regarding my own existence. Thanks to Google and the words of this modern day Rene Descartes, I know how to easily find that reassurance. [The Daily What via High Definite]
newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12509689&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":375,"ratio":0.75,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"vimeo","wrap":true} ); In 1964, Danish artist Asger Jorn published “The Application of the Triolectical Method in General Situology,” a philosophical tract that rebuked dualistic society. Nobody knew what the hell he was talking about, so he invented three-sided football to illustrate. More »
In this video interview with True/Slant, RZA says hip hop and “geekism” go hand in hand when it comes to using new technology. “We geeks man, we geeks!” He also talks about video game addiction…and busts out a roundhouse kick! More »
This Takumi calculator is a perfect metaphor of life: Its layout looks like a puzzle and when you try to solve any problem, it crashes at random. Can’t get any better than that for $US60. Unless it spontaneously bursts in flames. [Idea Frames via Technabob]
According to Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, the chances are pretty good that we’re currently existing not in the “real world,” but instead are a vast computer simulation created by a future, further advanced version of ourselves. Yeah, crazy, I know. Basically, he argues that because computing power will advance to the point where a system could be built that could simulate every brain on earth, future “posthumans” could set up an “ancestor simulator” that would be indistinguishable from real life for the inhabitants. More »
