Speaking of art, you may want to check out these lovely urinal sculptures. I can’t see it catching on, but I’m all for art you can use. I like the nautilus shell and the pitcher plant. Hat tip: Funfurde
Posted on November 18th, 2006 by pwyll
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I had been resisting the whole embedding YouTube on the blog thing, but this was just too beautiful and cool to pass up. The work of kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen has to be seen to be believed.
Jansen’s device reminds me of a fascinating piece of software, the sodaconstructor.
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Posted on November 18th, 2006 by pwyll
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Blogging has been light lately. I’ve been trying to learn Haskell, and learning a computer language is time consuming. And I must confess the recent elections have depressed me. I had read on various leftie blogs that the fix was in, that the Republicans were conspiring with Diebold to steal the election. Imagine my disappointment [...]
Posted on November 17th, 2006 by pwyll
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Speaker Elect Pelosi’s efforts to clean up the culture of corruption remind me of a distinction I once made. How can one distinguish between good clean fun and gross debauchery? By whether or not I was involved.
Posted on November 17th, 2006 by pwyll
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Posted on November 14th, 2006 by pwyll
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Powerline:
We are seeing, I think, the systematic rehabilitation of Saddam Hussein’s reputation. It is fast becoming the conventional wisdom on the left that Saddam was a benign, progressive dictator–sort of an Arab Fidel Castro. The airbrushing continues, perhaps, with the claim that Iraq never did have WMDs.
Certainly Castro could be considered a Cuban Saddam Hussein. [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2006 by pwyll
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