All of you who are under the impression that cats are absolutely the best thing for the Internet —producing GIFs and memes galore—are bloody delusional. My 8lb house cat Franny almost destroyed a small section of your Internet last week, temporarily crippling one of the hands I use to type all your nightly posts. More »
Over at The Atlantic, Robert Rosenberger has a fascinating and smart piece about technologies like Siri, which take voice dictation and turn it into text, and what kinds of effects they may have on how we write. More »
If you saw James Cameron’s Avatar and thought “Hey now! That looks like a wise and wonderful way of existing in this world!” a Russian dreamer named Dmitry Itskov is the man you want to know. HIs “2045 Initiative” is modern, multi-billion dollar answer to the mortality. Or so he hopes it to be. More »
I was talking with a good friend today about, among much else, Facebook and introspection and self-image. I’m on Facebook, my friend never has been. (No, really, never.) He said he doesn’t think about himself or reflect on his life nearly as much as other people (myself included) seem to. And he wondered if, maybe, his disinterest in analyzing the minutiae of his life has anything to do with not having a Facebook account. More »
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