attempted def: meme magic is internet mediated hyperreality’s brand of magic. it becomes real wherever the internet is about itself.

alien magic betrays their own perceptual biases, so it is incompatible to ours and exactly as incomprehensible as their minds

magic as tricking reality into seeing patterns in the noise↵magic as imposing human perception on reality

[At which point world builder brain piped up and was like “hey it works essentially like crypto! magic compatible!”]↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/712422004343840769

Objects that have no Adamic names cannot be addressed in Enochian, making them immune to magic. This includes a lot of our modern world.

With those “true language” based magic systems like in Eragon, I wonder: How has nobody ever asked the universe a nonterminating question?

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It is Christmas day
One of the many things to look forward to each year is, of course, the end of year holidays. Christmas, Festivus, or whatever you call it, the end of December is always a special time. My only complain, and that might be yours too, is that it comes and goes so fast! Kent has finished opening his presents, and somehow it feels “it is all over.” But we waited the whole year for this! We stayed up late wrapping gifts, gifts that are now open, and the “magic” gone. It should not be.

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BBC and WoW
From one article on today’s BBC Online news:

Occasionally gryphons and hippogriffs swept majestically overhead taking their riders to elsewhere in Azeroth or, as it is also known, the World of Warcraft (WoW).

At the edge of the computer screen chatter constantly scrolled past as other WoW players sought members forguilds, buyers for magical items, help with quests or engaged in idle banter.

Go and read: [A Walk in the World of Warcraft](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4294122.stm “ … ⌘ Read more