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Japanese character for "field" This morning's leading New York Times obituaries— For other remarks on space, see Galois + Space in this journal.
The Speed of Thought "I love Quicksilver. I've been using it since nearly the beginning, and I cannot live without it…. I just type, and things happen, pretty…
"The serpent's eyes shine As he wraps around the vine" — Don Henley, lyric from 1995 Greatest Hits album "…the film proceeds with implacable logic…." —…
The Acceptance Speech Award "A humble master with a quicksilver imagination" — Daniel Day-Lewis on Steven Spielberg, acceptance speech at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards "Robert [Downey Jr.],…
Happy Birthday to Lawrence Kasdan.
See also… Spelling Bee: Manifesto I vs. Manifesto II— I The Commonist Manifesto II The Anti-Commonist Manifesto Google's Choice: The People's Choice:
A note for day 13 of 2013 How the cube's 13 symmetry planes* are related to the finite projective plane of order 3, with 13 points and 13 lines—…
The late Aaron Swartz on a 1978 psychological study— "But the puzzles kept coming— and they kept getting harder. 'This isn’t fun anymore,' the kids cried. But still,…
See yesterday's post "There Will Be Aaron" (about a death in Crown Heights, Brooklyn) and earlier posts now tagged "Sorkin." Related material— Delphic.
I learned this afternoon of a significant death: See a NY Times obit and "RIP, Aaron Swartz." The latter quotes Swartz himself: "Obviously shades of Sinclair here…" Related material: …