The body is central to contemporary consumer culture. However, whilst material objects such as family heirlooms can be used by the living create a sense of immortality for deceased, little known about why persons might turn their own impermanent bodies symbolic legacy lost loved ones. Drawing on multiple in-depth interviews with eight memorial tattoo consumers, photographs, and consumption diar...

This paper presents Pundit, a novel semantic web annotation tool, and demonstrates its use in producing structured data out of users annotations. Pundit allows communities of scholars to produce machinereadable annotations that can be made public and thus consumable as web data via SPARQL and ad-hoc REST APIs. Pundit is highly configurable and can deployed in custom instances to include well-de...

We study a simple model of a forager as a walk that modifies a relaxing substrate. Within it simplicity, this provides an insight on a number of relevant and non-intuitive facts. Even without memory of the good places to feed and no explicit cost of moving, we observe the emergence of a finite home range. We characterize the walks and the use of resources in several statistical ways, involving ...