Noesis: Archive

Spam-watch. That’s right. Meet William Colgate the Second. And don’t follow the link unless you know how to protect yourself adequately on the internet. Hello. I’m William Colgate II, a representative of ExxonMobil in London (http://www.exxonmobil.com) with a private brief to re-profile funds amounting to $12.2M. Regards, William Colgate II

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Sorry’s Too Late // The Medicine Show One...

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Virtual Philosophy running order, a draft

Damn, only one hour to deliver this lecture… Plato: simile of the cave The Matrix: the desert of the Real, or, the pessimism of neuroscience Virtual: virtue, virtuoso, genius, genie Words are not Things: world of words creates the world of things All Nature is Second Nature: infinite malleablility of nature makes it second-order, infinitely regressible, no fixed origin; upload...

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I get my spam en français

I got this in my inbox this morning: Confidentiel, Je vous écris avec mon respect à votre égard car votre nom est le même que celui du partenaire d’affaires de mon père. J’ai perdu mon père Feu Yamek Bertin empoisonné par ses collègues pendant une réunion. Avant sa mort, il a déposé dans une société de garde, dans un coffre contenant de l’or le métal de l’UA, raffinée et...

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Hugo Award Winners

Hugo Award Winners Announced at AussieCon 4 | GeekDad | Wired.com BEST NOVEL [Tie for first place] The City & The City by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK) The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) BEST NOVELLA “Palimpsest” by Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace; Orbit) BEST NOVELETTE “The Island” by Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos) BEST SHORT STORY “Bridesicle” by Will...

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