10 June 2009
A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing – ChronicleReview.com: “In 1948, the University of Illinois Press published Claude Shannon’s brief and profoundly influential book The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Shannon’s work, which explained how words, sounds, and images could be converted into blips and sent electronically, presaged the digital revolution in communications.”
Books are the ultimate shortcut. A [...]
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23 May 2009
Gizmodo – What Is This? – Rosetta Disk: “Looks like a billion gazillion television screens, thundering their nonsense and babbling at the same time in some gigantic art installation.”
Actually this would be really rather useful. But you would want to leave a 500x microscope with it or it would be ignored. At the very least [...]
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