The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind. - Arpad Elo, 1962. Attack and...

A month ago I posted a glowing review of Glitch: Designing Imperfection, an impressive collection of glitch art compiled by Iman Moradi and Ant Scott. As a follow up to the review, Iman, Ant and I had the following exchange in which we discussed the...

Recently noted: Jer Thorp takes two articles about head injury in the NFL (penned by Jeanne Marie Laskas and Malcolm Gladwell) and creates a Processing tool for mapping the language used within these texts. Thorp uses this visual analysis (pictured...

With vague admiration and vague horror he observed how awesomely, how elegantly and how flexibly, move by move, the images of his childhood had been repeated (country house … town … school … aunt), but he still did not quite understand why this...

A thematic recap of the material I posted during my second (and final) month hosting the Revolutionary Minds Think Tank blog: Edward Einhorn's excitement over advanced projection technology and Tesla coils in theatre saw me reminisce about...