I just came across a good interview with Sherry Turkle that, when compared with her general techno-utopianism in Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, is more representative of her increasingly measured approach to the societal...

From Willard McCarty, Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings in A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Out on site, you were never parted from your plans. They were your Bible....

This is a doozy of a sentence from "The Fixation of Belief" by Charles Sanders Peirce: Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter...

An interesting post to an academic listserv today regarding a unique online social movement mentioned, for contrast, actions from groups responsible for "a set of unfunny memes such as the LOLcats." Of course all I could think about from that...

YouTube iPod Nano Feist 1234 Commercial, "I know PC's are pretty lame but at least they'll always stay the same."...

Interesting movie finder at Jaman. I'm not so sure I buy the tears and bullets being on opposite ends of the continuum. The "feeling lucky" gives you a different set of preset slider positions....

The predefined genres for the id3 spec are interesting. (What, no shoegazer?) :-) Blues Classic Rock Country Dance Disco Funk Grunge Hip-Hop Jazz Metal New Age Oldies Other Pop R&B Rap Reggae Rock Techno Industrial Alternative Ska Death Metal Pranks...