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Category Archives: Technology and life
Are US copyright laws unconstitutional: Default states semantics
LII: Constitution To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; I had no idea that copyright was part of the US … Continue reading
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Finally! The truth about truth: Folk foundations of scientific reductionism
On The Media I’m not a psychologist, but I think that at some deep level, if the situation you’re living is a lie, and the situation these boys were living was one, and, moreover, at least the father was complicit … Continue reading
Cognition, information, knowledge and the limits of serial computing
BBC – Radio 4 – Today Programme Listen Again 11 Sept 2007 08:50 It’s the 50th anniversary of the British Computer Society. But what can we expect over the next half century? Will our levels of dependence on the internet … Continue reading
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Lol cats and conventionalization of semiotic systems
Anil Dash: Cats Can Has Grammar The core behavior has existed for some time; “Image macro” is a generic term for this kind of folk art, and cats have always featured heavily in these types of Internet in-jokes. But a … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Discourse - text, Linguistics, Technology and life
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Walking robots and local grammars
BBC NEWS | Technology | Robot unravels mystery of walking “Babies use a lot of their brains to train local circuits but once they are trained they are fairly autonomous.”Only when it comes to more difficult things – such as … Continue reading
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Negotiating metaphoric mappings in advertising
The metaphoric mappings that structure most of our frames are usually seen as automatic. However, more often than not, they are negotiated through discourse prior to becoming fully blended (entrenched). This image is a great example of one such mapping … Continue reading
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New societies and old societies
TIME.com: Time’s Person of the Year: You — Dec. 25, 2006 — Page 1 America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open … Continue reading
Image schemas blends and new technologies
Column by PC Magazine: Our Modern World—Weirder by the Minute DIGITAL CAMERA ARM STRETCH. Okay, let’s get to the meat of this essay. Perhaps the weirdest societal change has to do with digital cameras and the practice of framing shots … Continue reading
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YouTube of the 1890s
BBC – Radio 4 – Archive Hour – 21 October 2006 Matthew Parris uncovers the remarkable story of the Electrophone, the first sound broadcasting service to operate in Britain. Electrophone (information system) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The name Electrophone … Continue reading
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Analogies in public discourse: Negotiation of Frames and Hypostasis of Channels
Buzz Out Loud: CNET’s podcast of indeterminate length on CNET.com [click here to listen to clip] recently featured this fascinating discussion of analogies. A caller suggests an analogy and the hosts discuss both the aptness of the analogy itself as … Continue reading
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