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Posted on 26th April 2006
Hans Haacke, 1966
. . . make something, which experiences, reacts to its environment, changes, is . . . nonstable . . .
. . . Make something indeterminate, which always looks different, the shape of which cannot be predicted precisely . . .
. . . make something, which cannot “perform” without the assistance of its environment . . .
. . . make something, which reacts to light and temperature changes, is subject to air currents and depends, in its functioning, on the forces of gravity . . .
. . . make something, which the “spectator” handles, which he plays and thus animates it . . .
. . . make something, which lives in time and make the spectator experience time . . .
. . . articulate something natural . . .Hans Haacke, 1966
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Posted on 21st April 2006
Firefox wins!
Yes, this has got to be one of the funniest commercials ever made.
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Posted on 2nd April 2006
Les Miserables
A nun explains “how a first-edition, signed copy of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel “Les Miserables” ended up in the hands of a Covington bookseller after being put out with the trash in Thibodaux.“
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Posted on 2nd April 2006
Celebrating Ambiguity
Dissing Disambiguation is an interesting diatribe by a mathematician who describes himself as “a 40 year-old gay man living in a wonky world.”
He explains a field of mathematics called topology that “deals with properties of space of objects that can be stretched without tearing or gluing.” He describes a couple of objects that are [...]


