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Vermont
I research, teach, and help build programs about cyberculture.
Interests: web 2.0, gaming, cyberculture, gothic, intellectual property, wikis, writing, blogging, social software, multimedia narrative, project management
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Accidental Google Glass art
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A Twitter image update produces an accidentally satirical error: Here is the intended image, which is pretty funny. (via Jesse Walker) Continue reading
Posted yesterday at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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The .edu supervillain
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Found on Google+, Infocult's creator as supervillain: (thanks to jason k) Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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I am surely in the toils.
19 May.--I am surely in the toils. Last night the Count asked me in the sauvest tones to write three letters, one saying that my work here was nearly done, and that I should start for home within a few... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Dracula Blogged
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Horror of student loan debt
"The Red" is a horror short about... student loan debt. The heroine is haunted by all kinds of horror tropes in a few short minutes: wounds, mysterious bleeding, uncanny voices, crawling bugs, disturbing people, creepy phone calls, and oozing monsters.... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Drone horror expands
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How scary are drones? Pretty creepy, according to Germany's defense minister. "We prefer to pull the plug [on drones]. That applies to the future as well, when costs get out of control. Better an end with horror than a horror... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Art in disease
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A new book finds beautiful visuals in the midst of horrible medical imagery. The imagery is horrible because it usually stems from disease or trauma: Lou Gherig's Disease, ectopic pregnancy, testicular cancer. There's something classically decadent about the project. (thanks... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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I have been down to look at that room again in daylight
18 May.--I have been down to look at that room again in daylight, for I must know the truth. When I got to the doorway at the top of the stairs I found it closed. It had been so forcibly... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Dracula Blogged
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Progress on the digital afterlife
We're doing better with our posthumous digital affairs, according to a Long Now post. For example, there have recently been a series of Digital Death Day unconferences. There's even a beautifully named Death Switch. With a death switch, the computer... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Cthulhu meets MOOCs
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The rise of MOOCs explained. They came from R'lyeh! (thanks to Steven Burnett) Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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TMZ tries cyberfear
Celebrity gossip site TMZ discovered the scary side of cyberspace a few weeks ago, running a frantic story about hackers blackmailing the United States into war. As the headline shrieked, HACKER GROUP THREATENS TO BOMB WHITE HOUSE (caps and font... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Self-assembling printed robot inches your way
"A Printed Inchworm Robot" is mildly uncanny on the face of it. The little thing inches along, like a metal worm. It's interesting, too, because most of it has been 3d printed. But where it leaps into the uncanny valley... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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How to use a touch of Gothic
The New Yorker quietly adds just a smidgen of Gothic to a technology essay: The primary interface element of Now is what Google calls “cards,” which are modelled after real cards. They present a clean, trim canvas for information—one recalls... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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A drowned town rises into the light
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A flood wiped out and submerged an Argentine town in the 1980s. Yet this year it surfaced, ruins emerging into the air. Call it a kind of ghost town: People come to see the rusted hulks of automobiles and furniture,... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Chapter 4
CHAPTER 4. JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL CONTINUED I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Dracula Blogged
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God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced.
Later: The morning of 16 May.--God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Dracula Blogged
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Once more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion.
15 May.--Once more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion. He moved downwards in a sidelong way, some hundred feet down, and a good deal to the left. He vanished into some hole or window. When... Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at Dracula Blogged
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Russia, home of the Gothic
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Russia is such a Gothic nexus that it breeds vampire moths. Their discovery must have been quite the surprise: When the Russian moths were experimentally offered human hands this summer, the insects drilled their hook-and-barb-lined tongues under the skin and... Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Cannibalism in Syria
Today's story of cannibalism comes from the Syrian civil war, where a rebel apparently gnawed on a dead soldier's heart. According to one account, In the clip, Sakkar cuts into the chest of the dead soldier before ripping out his... Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Uzumaki invades real life
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A woman's esophagus mutated into a spiral horror, delighting fans of Uzumaki everywhere: The woman had lost 11 pounds in the past several months, and told doctors she had cramplike spasms shortly after eating. Her doctors performed an endoscopy and... Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2013 at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Let me begin with facts, bare, meager facts
12 May.--Let me begin with facts, bare, meager facts, verified by books and figures, and of which there can be no doubt. I must not confuse them with experiences which will have to rest on my own observation, or my... Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2013 at Dracula Blogged
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Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Murray
LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY 17, Chatham Street Wednesday My dearest Mina, I must say you tax me very unfairly with being a bad correspondent. I wrote you twice since we parted, and your last letter was only your... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2013 at Dracula Blogged
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More scary short videos from Popcorn horror
We shared the fine short video "Click" a few days ago. Now it's time to examine the other Gothic tidbits from the contest which "Click" won, Popcorn Horror. Warning: all of these have scenes of extreme violence, pain, and death.... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2013 at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Inhabiting an abandoned skyscraper
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A Venezuelan skyscraper failed to fill its spaces with business, and fell empty. Gradually poor people moved in, squatting in what sounds like a disturbing ruin: ‘rooms with a view’ lacked walls, working electricity, running water, windows, balcony railings and... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2013 at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Giant insect swarm attacking America
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Headline of the day: PLAGUE of SEX CRAZED MONSTER GRASSHOPPERS to hit East Coast Caps in original. The never-subtle Register goes on to add in subtitle: Red-eyed, noisy-as-MOTORBIKES insect ORGY imminent The cicada swarm is of a variety Gothically labeled... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2013 at Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
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Chapter 5
CHAPTER 5. LETTER FROM MISS MINA MURRAY TO MISS LUCY WESTENRA 9 May. My dearest Lucy, Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2013 at Dracula Blogged
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