Severe Weather Can Occur at ANY Time

do you know what your meteorologist will do?

On Exactitude in Ma/icrostructures of multiple orders

One thing I was trying to say

On Exactitude in Science . . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a [...]

Physical consequences of digital miscellany

One of the easiest ways to win my affection is to quote Borges. Thank you, David Weinberger.
The discussion of the “third order of order” was fascinating in a few ways for me. Most concretely, my 40 hour/week life as a book buyer was interested in the commentary on spatial layouts of retail [...]

Simple Solutions

Synecdoche and Binary Race
Nakamura’s arguments seem to be large, bulky. They allude to grand claims; representations of race in The Matrix and Minority Report are interesting and her analysis seems accurate. I am left wondering, however, what or how these claims might relate to other texts and digitality in general.
She does discuss some [...]

A Happy Failure

not quite the result i had in my mind. i was hoping to overlay my face with text cut from book covers, then somehow subtract the non-text background, but maintain the dual layer (my face and book covers) and play with the transparencies until you could make out my face and the book covers.  my [...]

Response Race 1

Some early and ongoing thoughts on Digitizing Race as I navigate this text…I’m interested by the notion that color blindness is a symptom of racism (3).  Perhaps this has to do with my sociohistoric coming of age during the neoliberalism of the 1990’s.  It seems that Nakamura readily accepts this notion (thus far, anyway) and [...]

Semiological analysis of 3

I must confess that my initial desire was to attempt an analysis of this picture using discourse analysis 1.  Alas, the intertextuality requirement would have proved particularly taxing to my own time and resource constraints.  Perhaps, the spirit of my Foucauldian photoplay will allow me to better dream of the day I attempt the discourse [...]

If on a winter’s night WeatherWatch Alert

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Alert – The System is Back Online

Catastrophic failure and theft has been replaced with updated hardware and software.  Developing News is now running OS X 10.5.1 on a 2.0 GHz Intel DuoCore with 1 GB 667MHz SDRAM.When the weather changes, you’ll be the first to know.