Total Eclipse

If you don’t already read We Make Money Not Art , they’ve recently posted some interesting impressions from 23C3 (which sadly I couldn’t attend). Of particular scholarly interest I think are the notes from Joi Ito‘s presentation on World of Warcraft and MMORPGs. I can’t help but feel drawn back to McLuhan (from The Gutenberg [...]

The following is a translation of a paper I wrote for my Techno-Utopia & Cyberculture course from 2 semesters ago. Enjoy: The issue of Personal Identity is a complex subject, which raises many difficult questions. What is a Person? That which thinks the thoughts I have? Is it identical to my body? Is it my [...]

Check out this interesting question on Yedda Is there a god? Is there a god? And if so, who or what is god? Topics: people, philosophy, religion, hope, god, belief, humanity Asked by eGrant on September 01, 2006 View the entire discussion on Yedda

I received in my Academic mailbox today a short questionnaire for a statistics student asking me, quite simply for my gender, date of birth, date of birth of a significant other or close friend, and do I believe in astrology on a scale of 1 (not at all) to 5 (very much so). I answered [...]

regurgitated from my livejournal, too busy to write new content. I don’t remember the day I first connected to the internet. Strange, as in retrospect, it was quite a landmark day, worthy of a flashbulb memory. Like I have of The Day Rabin was Assasinated. Oddly enough, I remember that when Rabin was shot, I [...]

This is a paper I wrote for my course in Order, Chaos and Complexity (given by the wonderfully -talented but stingy on the grade Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov, who I wholeheartedly recommend studying with if you ever have the chance). I figured since it was in English, I may as well post it here for posterity. [...]

I’m too busy to actually think through a complete post, but I feel like I need to update, so just some random things I’ll try to make seem as if they correlate to one another:The Washington Post has an interesting article on how the speed of information is helping break through The Great Firewall of [...]

(Originally posted on LJ Cyberpunk @ 2005-05-14 01:12:00) Last Word I went to visit my parents today. As I do, I checked out my old room for random stuff of mine. I found an issue of OMNI magazine, dated back July 1991. (BTW, does anybody know whatever happened to OMNI?) Anyway, this issue contained an [...]