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Monday, 15 May 2006
visual music box

rather beautiful to watch and listen

 

posted by: kenjprice at May 15, 2006 22:21 | link | comments |

Apple iPhone

Apple has a phone ready to sell. Probably a decent product.

But you can be sure that it will have a cult following even if it's  total crap. I'd bid for the franchise to sell them to art-school hopefuls and culture tragics, who are thick and gullible enough to buy anything that looks trendy.

 

posted by: kenjprice at May 15, 2006 22:17 | link | comments |

Third world village

Could you last 4 seasons in an African village?

find out with this simulation

posted by: kenjprice at May 15, 2006 22:06 | link | comments |

Wednesday, 10 May 2006
a real Surprise

You can listen. Listen. And read.  And listen

http://www.paulsimon.com/player.php

posted by: kenjprice at May 10, 2006 17:08 | link | comments |
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Monday, 08 May 2006
Mr Eliot and a set of images

Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses

  If there were water
  And no rock
  If there were rock
  And also water
  And water
  A spring
  A pool among the rock
  If there were the sound of water only
  Not the cicada
  And dry grass singing
  But sound of water over a rock
  Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
  Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
  But there is no water
 
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
- But who is that on the other side of you?

From The Waste Land TS Eliot 1922


posted by: kenjprice at May 08, 2006 22:54 | link | comments |

Umm

Not all people say "ummm" or "errr"

 

posted by: kenjprice at May 08, 2006 22:42 | link | comments |

what a Surprise...

rumour has it that Mr Paul Frederic Simon, musician, composer and wordsmith, appears to have worked with Mr Brian Eno, (Roxy Music, Fripp & Eno, producer of numerous David Bowie and Talking Heads albums, even more U2 albums, even an INXS and a Suede album, and of course composer of the Micosoft Windows startup sound...).

The fruits of this work are alleged to be a new Paul Simon album.

This may help the blackness.

posted by: kenjprice at May 08, 2006 22:35 | link | comments |
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Ants everywhere

How to add all the ants in the world to Google Earth. Cos, like, you need to know where the buggers are.

posted by: kenjprice at May 08, 2006 17:17 | link | comments |

Writing.

Why do so many symbols in different alphabets have common characteristics?

It seems we are hard-wired to recognise symbols and shapes from nature.

This article explains all.

Remarkably, the study revealed regularities in the distribution of (topological) shapes across approximately 100 phonemic (non-logographic) writing systems, where characters stand for sounds, and across symbols. "Whether you use Chinese or physics symbols, the shapes that are common in one are common in the others," said Dr Changizi.

For comparison, the team studied the shapes found in the real world, such as the Y shapes seen at the corner of a cube, or the simpler L and T shapes found in the branches of trees, yurts, huts, tepees and simple dwellings and so on.

posted by: kenjprice at May 08, 2006 15:11 | link | comments |

Pizza box with a message

This pizza box from Hell Pizzas folds up into a nice coffin for your "remains" . Presumably the remains of your pizza...

Ah, viral marketnig at its best.

posted by: kenjprice at May 08, 2006 14:14 | link | comments |

Food at Alinea in Chicago.

Unusual food and cooking equipment at Alinea restaurant.

What do YOU think an anti-griddle might be? This tells all.

posted by: kenjprice at May 08, 2006 13:36 | link | comments |

More number trivia

Well, religious trivia really, if that isn't a tautology.

How could Adam have named all the animals in a single day? Click here to see the explanation

posted by: kenjprice at May 08, 2006 13:33 | link | comments |


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