Mountain Lion Safety. Check out the detail on the top-right human.

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Winnipeg New Media Workshop - Freestyle SoundKits

Led by Toronto Artist, Jessica Thompson. Saturday, September 13 from 11:00 am – 6:00 pm, Video Pool Media Arts Centre in the Exchange District.

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Grey Thumb

A global interest group dedicated to artificial life and evolutionary technology.

“As someone with a green thumb is skilled at gardening, someone with a grey thumb could be thought of as someone skilled with creating synthetic living processes.”

No longer

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Logic: An Introduction to the Formal Study of Reasoning

By John L. Pollock

Also see:

• So you think you exist? - In defense of nolipsism.
• What Am I? - Virtual machines and the mind/body problem
• More…

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Analogy as the Core of Cognition

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Mushrooms and Mold

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light book - cut vellum 8 x 8 x 1/2 inches

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Marathon of Dope

Pay-want-you-want music from Winnipeg rappers Pip Skid and the Gumshoe Strut.

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Quantum Computing for "Everyone"

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Large Mosasaur Fossil Discovered Near Morden, MB

Who knew that Morden was home to the largest collection of marine reptile fossils in Canada? [More: Mosasaur @ Wikipedia]

Mapping Memory

Web Designer as Information Cartographer

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From the wish jar. Also: touch map

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picidae

Break through the Internet Censorship

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Bathroom Tiles

Opentape

Create online mixtapes in the style of (the currently offline) muxtape.

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Mon.thly

For the ladies: Track your menstrual cycles online. [More info]

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Tired Spiral

Monk

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History of Graphic Design

From the University of the Arts in Philadelphia

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Liquor and Lit

A Portrait of the Writer as a Drunk

Fair Copyright for Canada

Overview of bill C-61, the proposed amendment to Canadian copyright law. [More Analysis]

The Genius of Miles Davis

with YouTube vids.

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Skateboarding shot at 120 frame per second using a Red camera.

Domed

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Knitted Dome

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Summer Memories

More photos (along with the above two) from my summer. [2008]

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Phillip Toledano - Days with My Father

Dealing with memory lost.

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Frenglish a Muxtape

aka Franglais in tunez.

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Working Class Hero (Found exploring the TumblrSphere.)

Contributions cut this week by the conservative government:

• $300,000 cut from the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, which archives and makes available for distribution film, television and musical recordings.
• $1.5 million cut from the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, which helps top up the budgets of independent films and triggers private investment.
• $2.5 million cut from the National Training Program in the Film and Video Sector.

Federal programs canceled this week by the conservative government:

• The ProMart program, an artists’ travel support fund. ($4.7 million)
• The Trade Routes program that supports film and music exports. ($9 million)
• The Stabilization Project and Capacity Building program, which provides financial and administrative support to art groups.

[source]

Tories cut funding for artists touring abroad. — CBC:

Ideology played a role in decision, spokesperson acknowledges.

Want a ‘culture of innovation’? Fund our artists. — Globe and Mail:

First we have Bill C-10, the bid to deny tax credits to what the Heritage Minister calls “indecent material.” Meanwhile, other art forms have been told they are insufficiently “mainstream” and their funding has been cut through the cancellation of Trade Routes and PromArt.

‘Left-wing’ writer denies applying for travel grant — Globe and Mail:

The cuts to arts programs hit on a favourite theme of the Tories - cutting spending that appears wasteful and elitist - to gain political advantage in some target markets.

Amazing but True Cat Stories

Written and illustrated by a hive mind.

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Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly-Understood and Sloppily-Formulated Ideas - 1969

[pdf] - An html version is also available.

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Face Swapping: Automatically Replacing Faces in Photographs

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Daily Color Scheme

Found searching Blogonia for “propositional calculus”:

• Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part I
• Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part II
• Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part III

“A translation of lecture notes from a course on Logic delivered by Alain Badiou in 1980 - 81. It is rather short and deals specifically with Gödel and his theorem of incompleteness.”

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Also: Alphabet Images.

Shoes

Make colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

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Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

Some explanations, plus a link to a modernized translation of Gödel’s original paper.

“Solar panels heat the water, and a wind turbine on the roof generates electricity. Rainwater is collected in a 3,000-gallon cistern, then filtered, treated and pumped through the house for cleaning purposes.”

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Google Releases an Open Source Cryptography Toolkit

Choose.

Winnipeg: Love or Hate

Photos of my home town. Many of them were shot in HDR.

Best (and Worst) from the same photographer.

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The building on the left is the Winnipeg Clinic. My parents would bring me here to visit our pediatrician.

I remember elevator buttons that weren’t actually buttons but some sort of 1940s high-tech touch sensor. (Or is this actually a memory from The Bay?)

Sitting in the waiting room I would stare out from below one of those beautifully curved awnings, fascinated by the mirrored surface of the building across the street. I searched the grid for a pattern to explain the positions of the different coloured windows.

His Winnipeg

An Interview with Guy Maddin [Aug 2008]

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superimpose

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Bridges 2008 - Leeuwarden, NL

Annual conference on mathematical connections in Art, Music, and Science celebrating the 110th Birth Year of M.C. Escher in his Birthplace.

The Ampersand

An attempt to give this humble ligature the respect it deserves.

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The 100 Most Common English Words

A Quiz

Kite-Domino Tiling.

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Tilings Encyclopedia

In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.

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The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away

A story by Cory Doctorow about geek monasteries that house smart people who can’t get along in the world and put them to work as coders.

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Fan Out

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Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a two-volume theoretical work by the French authors Deleuze and Guattari. Its two volumes, published eight years apart, are Anti-Œdipus and A Thousand Plateaus.

Translators note from A Thousand Plateaus:

“This is a book that speaks of many things, of ticks and quilts and fuzzy sub- sets and noology and political economy. It is difficult to know how to approach it. What do you do with a book that dedicates an entire chapter to music and animal behavior—and then claims that it isn’t a chapter?”

Read them in PDF:

• Anti-Œdipus
• A Thousand Plateaus

via wood s lot via Continental Philosophy.

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A paragraph by paragraph diagrammatic interpretation of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus, by artist Marc Ngui.

21 Aphorisms

from Cabinet Magazine online. (btw)

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Words and chords.

The semantic shifts of the Beatles’ chords.

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The Large Hadron Collider, a 27 kilometer long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is nearly set to begin its first particle beam tests.