Robots Reading Vogue analyzes the dataset of the magazine Vogue from its beginning in 1892 through 2013. Speaking of robots, is Vogue self-aware? The n-gram search on “Vogue” and “vogue” (using the case-sensitive option of course) suggests that metacognition in the popular magazine has not been in vogue of late. The two terms trend together, …

3501 frames (1 for every 2 seconds) extracted from Christopher Nolan’s film Inception. Recompiled using ImageJ according to Kevin Ferguson’s method. Z projection summed image: Barcode X and Y:

Somehow reacting to a blog post feels more like handling a rattlesnake than responding to an article, book, or poem published by an institution. I don’t expect to attract attention in either case, but a blog lives and breathes. The Internet is a fluid medium in a way that print has never been. That seems …