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Ever wonder if people actually spend time analyzing song lyrics? The answer is yes.

Over the past 24 hours I have acquired what appears to be carpal tunnel syndrome in my right hand: numbness, sharp, shooting pains, the whole bit. My current state led me to wonder.. what will become of me if I can’t type?
This brought me to George Perec’s masterpiece, La Disparition (“The Void”), a French novel [...]

Worried about the future of personal media? Scared at the prospect of marketting and advertising hijacking our grassroots medium and turning it into a joke?
Wait no longer, the future is here… Zach is pulling out all the stops. Help him out! He won’t be able to be a spoiled rich kid unless you buy stuff [...]

A team of MIT students under the direction of a quirky math professor moonlight as blackjack sharks, pulling a profit for investors by academically outwitting casinos. This has been a rumor I’ve heard on and off for the past three years; sometimes rumors are true, and they turn out to be bigger than you ever [...]

We just finished our yearly dog and pony show here at the Media Laboratory, and I have only one thank you to hand out (besides the Academy, of course):
To Rock Star Energy Drink, the official beverage of Media Lab events worldwide.
Twice the caffeine, twice the volume, four times the woo-haa.

The esteemed cognitive scientist Roger Schank always used the quirkiest examples to describe natural language. The characters of his world (typically John, Mary or Bob) were always shooting up herion or smuggling marijuana across the border. One day, someone at a talk probed him about his choices:
“So Roger, why do you always use such weird [...]

Whenever I get the development bug, I tend to go into social remission. I can’t believe that an entire week disappeared without a post, but judging by the amount of ground that has been gained behind the scenes with Blogdex, it’s not that surprising. I think people will be happy.

In an attempt to put movie piraters to bay, the digital cinema company Cinea has just won a $2 million NIST grant to develop technologies that disrupt the taping process within movie theaters:
The company “will modify the timing and modulation of the light used to create the displayed image such that frame-based capture by recording [...]

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of technology are working on methods for assembing arbitrary structures in space using only debris and electromagnetic waves:
Komerath and his students have calculated that it would be feasible to use waves to move objects with diameters smaller than five per cent of the radiation’s wavelength. Light can move nanoparticles for [...]

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Beware! The following link will take you on a mystical journey through the outer realms of your conciousness, returning you safely to your seat, but with heightened levels [...]