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#mRIF: This is Wyoming

johannes — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:18:09 +0200

#mRIF: Dianetics...

johannes — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:00:53 +0200

Just wonderful - FM Belfast: 'Pump'

johannes — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:24:15 +0200

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#mRIF: Inhale!

johannes — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:32:59 +0200

#mRIF: Entropy...

johannes — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:08 +0200

#mRIF: The living...

johannes — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:05:57 +0200

#mRIF: Vacuum is a hell...

johannes — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:42:31 +0200

Eye movements reveal readers' wandering minds (Kafka: too engaging)

johannes — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:36:41 +0200

It's not just you…everybody zones out when they're reading. For a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, scientists recorded eye movements during reading and found that the eyes keep moving when the mind wanders—but they don't move in the same way as they do when you're paying attention.

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Four undergraduate students at the University of Pittsburgh volunteered for the project. Each one came to the lab for a dozen or more one-hour reading sessions of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, chosen because it's "fairly easy but a little bit dry," says Reichle. "We started with Kafka's The Trial, but people found it too engaging.” While the student read the book on a screen, a computer tracked their eye movements. They were asked to push a button marked "Z" when they noticed themselves "zoning out." The computer also asked every few minutes if they'd just been paying attention or zoning out.

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Arse Elektronika 2010 @ Mission Comics and Art: Call for Microtalks on Sex/Tech/Art

johannes — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:05:46 +0200

We want to feature an evening of five minute lightning talks about technosexual art and comic culture. We call the evening "Microtalks on Sex/Tech/Art" -- and if you want to present your favorite art piece or present your own work: send us an email!

Sunday; October 3, 2010
8:30 PM
Location: Mission Comics and Art

Arse Elektronika Main Page

Roboexotica 2010: Festival Dates Announced / 'Robot Dreams' recommends

johannes — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:24:32 +0200

The Roboexotica 2010 Festival dates are set for December 2nd-5th in Vienna. If you're into robots, and are of legal drinking age, this is one event absolutely not to be missed.

Here's how the Roboexotica organization website positions this totally unique annual celebration featuring robots contributing to improving life in a meaningful way...
Cheers! Roboexotica will take place in Vienna December 2-5, 2010. Until recently, no attempts had been made to publicly discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Alan Turing would doubtless test this out.

Link (Roboexotica page)
Link (Robot Dreams)