Do You Have A Favorite Word?
If so, go to www.wordia.com and upload a video of yourself sharing its definition. This relatively new online resource is positioned as “a place where anyone with a video, webcam or mobile phone can define the words that matter to them in their life.” Trendspotters at Springwise.com featured the site in a recent newsletter describing it as ”a video dictionary [...]
read moreBattleFight Vol. II: The Terminator/Segway VS. Centaurs/Wikipedia
For our second installment of BattleFight, hardware faces off with open-source technology and humanoid horse-beasts: the Terminator spot-welded to a Segway versus a dozen or so centaurs with the cognitional knowledge of Wikipedia. When debating this BattleFight please reflect on Victor Turner’s concept of liminality as well as the problems of natural/artificial dualism encountered by [...]
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