The inexplicably rapid evolution of the neocortex is akin to an organic singularity event. It's the first piece of steak to recognise it is a piece of steak. Not quite a tautology but not far off either. I came across this yesterday night by accident. Peter Webster does a lovely job of reframing a potential hypothesis for why we have a garden of Eden story in our mythology, and he provides more evidence for Terrence McKenna's stoned ape theory which hits my confirmation bias hotspot.
Saturday 6 November 2010
Friday 5 November 2010
The Great Internet Balloon Race
I'd really like to put this widget in the margin for the duration of Balloonacy, but I don't think it's going to fit.
Balloonacy Is Back
The lovely people at Poke are doing Balloonacy for Orange again. You may have noticed a floating animal icon around the blog as you're reading this, but it's simpler to understand if you watch the video above that Orange made to explain how it all works. I hear that this latest version makes 2008 look like an 'Atari game of Pong'. That's tucked between the Babbage Difference engine and a ZX Spectrum I'm guessing.
I'm looking forward to joining in, and you can too. If you know where your blog template is then cutting and pasting a snippet of code into the end shouldn't be so hard. Then you're off. More over here.
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