http://bogotissimo.com/blog mostly I link. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:05:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Wired, via maverickmath: Two comprehensive analyses of antidepressant trials have uncovered a dramatic increase in placebo response since the 1980s. One estimated that the so-called effect size (a measure of statistical significance) in placebo groups had nearly doubled over that time. It's not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug ... http://bogotissimo.com/blog/?p=213 The animal was clearly in distress, or perhaps berserk. The President confessed to having had limited experience with enraged rabbits. He was unable to reach a definite conclusion about its state of mind. What was obvious, however, was that this large, wet animal, making strange hissing noises and gnashing its ... http://bogotissimo.com/blog/?p=210 continho modernoso. http://bogotissimo.com/blog/?p=208 I'll be speaking on the e-poetry 2009 festival this wednesday in Barcelona. My subject will be digital works that make the rather absurd demand that the viewer read their source codes. Philosophy of the Silverbox, a collaboration with Giselle Beiguelman, will be in Bienal Arte Nuevo '09 in Mérida, Mexico, ... http://bogotissimo.com/blog/?p=206 massive bubble blowing in Manchester. http://bogotissimo.com/blog/?p=204 From The Telegraph: Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC’s iPlayer. It will ... http://bogotissimo.com/blog/?p=197 Title: Dead pixel in Google Earth Year: 2008 82 x 82 cm burned square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km. http://bogotissimo.com/blog/?p=195 Let me count the ways. --- Bruce Sterling once wrote the sentence: "It's war to the knife in the neon-lit backstreets of cyberspace." And much else besides. He could write the next Palmer Eldritch, which he won't; he will still be the guy who once wrote the sentence: "It's war to the knife ... http://bogotissimo.com/blog/?p=188 Ehm: A survey of teens and young adults released last week reported that 1 in 5 teens — and one-third of 20-somethings — have electronically sent or posted online nude or semi-nude pictures or video of themselves. Of course, producing such pictures of minors amounts to child pornography, even if the ... http://bogotissimo.com/blog/?p=182 Altermodern is the new YBA. Beware. (And by the way: declaring that "post-modernism is dead" makes little sense; po-mo was, among other things, when we became skeptical about metanarratives - periodization and the Zeitgeist being clear examples. In other words: post-modernism is when you realise that the avant-garde artist arguing that ... http://bogotissimo.com/blog/?p=169