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	<description>Media, technology and culture through the lens of various science fictions.</description>
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		<title>Kitchen Wall, Alabama Farmstead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grant wythoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among a collection of mounted kitchen utensils, what appears to be the scraps of a lithographic magazine advertisement remain on the wall in Walker Evans&#8217;s &#8220;Kitchen Wall, Alabama Farmstead&#8221; (1936, gelatin silver print).  Hamlin Garland documented the practice in his collection of stories Main-Traveled Roads (1891). Then they entered the house, into the sitting room, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Pocket</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grant wythoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gadgetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media archaeology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[technique]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere between 1915 and 1920, a gesture as simple as fumbling through one&#8217;s pocket came to signify a completely different kind of cultural technique.  Rather than sifting among a private collection of utilitarian or discarded objects, the user of the &#8220;pocket wireless&#8221; receiver now opened himself up to a &#8220;receptive situation&#8221; in which live bits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astounding N-Grams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grant wythoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most popular 4-word sequences in Harry Bates&#8217;s Astounding Stories of Super Science&#8211;from February 1930 to May 1931&#8211;are overwhelmingly locative: the edge of the       121 the center of the    85 the surface of the    81 the side of the        80 the bottom of the    74 the end of the        71 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen</title>
		<link>http://wythoff.net/the-scientific-adventures-of-baron-munchausen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grant wythoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gernsback]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years after publishing Ralph 124C 41+ in the pages of his pop technology magazine Modern Electrics, Hugo Gernsback published a second, far less studied work in his second imprint, The Electrical Experimenter.  This novel, The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen, ran from May 1915 to February 1917. As a work of fiction, the novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gadgets and Wrinkles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grant wythoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gadgetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of my research right now is directed toward the idea that the word &#8220;gadget&#8221; denotes a completely different range of tools at different points throughout the twentieth century. Though today we usually associate gadgetry with portable electronics, the word has its roots in nineteenth century nautical jargon.  In use among sailors as early as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gadget, 1880-2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grant wythoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Google Ngram Viewer basically confirms what I&#8217;ve been seeing with the Corpus of Historical American English on the usage of &#8220;gadget&#8221; from 1880 to 2010.  The postwar spike, so far as I can tell, has nothing to do with the code name for the first atom bomb test, since the name wasn&#8217;t declassified until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing with Ngrams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grant wythoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Google opened up the Ngram Viewer, a word search visualizer that queries the full text of 5.2 million books published from 1500 to 2008.  Ever wonder what has been trending over the last 500 years? The more disperse, abstract &#8220;space&#8221; has been slowly gaining on the concreteness of &#8220;place&#8221; in a long arc from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fable of the Ideal Gadget</title>
		<link>http://wythoff.net/ideal-gadget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grant wythoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The definition of &#8220;gadget&#8221; was wide open in the 1920s and 30s.  Though the word was still used by and large as a kind of empty container for &#8220;any old thing,&#8221; the things it contained ranged anywhere from jewelry to figures of speech. One particular application of &#8220;gadget&#8221; taps into the narrative dimensions of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8pen Inaugurates a New Kind of Gestural Text Entry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grant wythoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[8pen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[futurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gesture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interface]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 8pen is a new text input method designed by mobile apps developer 3qubits.  Announced only yesterday, it will be released tomorrow for Android 2.2, with a 1.6 release on the way. The problem 8pen sets out to tackle is the far too literal virtualization of the QWERTY keyboard into a two inch space that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hand Crank Media: Proposal for an archaeology</title>
		<link>http://wythoff.net/hand-crank-media-proposal-for-an-archaeology/</link>
		<comments>http://wythoff.net/hand-crank-media-proposal-for-an-archaeology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grant wythoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[media archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gadgetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hand crank plays a supporting role throughout the history of media. However, from the kinescope to the portable smut viewer to the OLPC cloud computer, the hand crank has served to sync techniques of the body to the various media worlds it inhabits. Much of early cinema was institutionalized by debating the slippages between [...]]]></description>
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