MetaFilter posts tagged with Minds

Legendary Threads and Hive Minds

sidr — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:09:53 -0800

Epic threads gathered from the nether reaches of the Internet.: www.LegendaryThread.com. The Mefi Wiki - a reordered Mefi - has a subset of legendary threads and things the hive mind has said. Comment Fables, for example. Mefi has all these mirrors to look at itself: ShadowyBackAlley. There are others: LegendaryThreads.net They seem interesting internet social phenomena. Do you know any more similar legendary thread sites? Do link!

Rapid Offensive Unit Xenophobe will no doubt be pleased

Artw — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:00:35 -0800

Edinburgh author Iain M. Banks, creator of the post capitalist space faring society The Culture and it's oddly named ships, has long been the UKs top science fiction writer, but has never had more than a toehold in the US (in part through lack of availability, in part due to lack of promotion and in part due to some pretty awful covers. That could change: Matter, his latest, has been heavily promoted in the US and sports a cover nearly identical to the UK edition. This week Orbit are releasing US editions of the two earliest Culture novels, with the third following in July, which could mean a complete release of all the novels in the US in order. More Banks: Slashdot review of Matter Guardian Books author profile Interview in The Australian The odd story behind a Banks interview in The Sun Iain Banks and Ken MacCleod (audio/video) The Banksoniain fanzine National secular society: Honorary Associate: Iain Banks Iain M. Banks' "Culture" references in Bungie's Halo Why I write - Iain Banks Iain Banks on clean, green living Iain M. Banks’s Consider Phlebas and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

Revolutionary Minds

homunculus — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:18:08 -0800

Revolutionary Minds. "A selection of icons and iconoclasts whose radical ideas are inspiring a vivid dialogue that is deepening our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Meet the 2004 Third Culture." [Via WorldChanging.]

2003ReithLectures

srboisvert — Sat, 24 May 2003 14:35:20 -0800

2003 Reith Lectures. Neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, talks about a number of fascinating neurological disorders and the insights they provide into mental functioning.