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Life as a Post-Luddite

YouTube Film Festival

It's the time of year again-- the time in which you need an abundance of Internet videos to procrastinate with. While many of us...

Happy Easter, Bunny

Today is the holiday commonly referred to as Easter. It was also Passover this weekend, but it's Easter that gets the meme feast this...

Auxiliary Life Goals

We all have real life goals --goals like: finish school, get a PhD, travel the world, write a book, have a major solo art...

New Media, Old School

On the topic of things you never thought you'd hear, the Guardian ran an article on February 14 that says that MySpace has seen...

What’s your social media manifesto?

De-friending people on Facebook

Carpe Diem: Top Five Regrets of the Dying

What are the top 5 things people regret on their deathbed?

Old Ideas, New Songs

I know I'm not the Music Guy here at F, but on January 31 there's a lot of new albums being released. The most...

Miami Art Fair Shut Down

Life as an artist isn't all the glamour it's made out to be. While Chicago artists may have been freezing last week, they were not...

Nature Fight!

  I feel vaguely bad for watching Nature Fights, but it's also fascinating because, well, it's a Nature fight. So here are my pics: Wolves vs....

Feeling stressed?

While millions of Americans are checking their real-life bags this week as they travel for the Thanksgiving holiday, millions more will need to check...

More Art/DNA Intersections

The New York Times reported a few days ago that researchers had proven the existence of the "spotted horse" seen in the Lascaux cave...

Science | New Heath Study Reveals Mortality Imminent

A study released on the New York Times Health Blog reports that women who consume a few drinks a week are more likely to...

Free Book: New Art/Science Affinities

Contributors: Andrea Grover, Régine Debatty, Claire Evans, Pablo Garcia, Thumb Projects Published by: Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University + CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Publication date:...

Farewell, Friedrich Kittler

Media theorists mourn the loss of one of the greats this week: Friedrich Kittler. Kittler, whose works include "Gramophone, Film, Typewriter" and "Optical Media",...

Some sports journalism

I love art as much as the next person, don't get me wrong, but these days my favorite reads are actually sports blogs. Articles...