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A Dead Poet's Word

For the Tin Men — The word:  Shear.

A Midnight Exorcism

The summoning of the spirit of Bertrand Russell yesterday by Peter J. Cameron at his weblog suggests a review of this  weblog’s posts of Christmas Eve, December 24-25, 2013. (Recall that…

Step

In memory of actress Sarah Marshall — "It's a big step, granted, but it's just one step." — The Twilight Zone , "Little Girl Lost." See also this morning's previous…

Rotatable Hypercube

The archived Java rotatable hypercube of Harry J. Smith is no longer working. For an excellent JavaScript  replacement, see Pete Michaud's http://petemichaud.github.io/4dhypercube/. This JavaScript  version can easily be saved.

The Footnote:

A One-Frame Film —

Prizes —

Israel and Nobel — For the former, see the life of Shulamit Aloni, who reportedly died today. For the latter, see the life of Yasunari Kawabata, who reportedly died…

Shining Forth

Continued from remarks of Marissa Mayer at Davos last year — Related material — This evening's NY lottery… … and Log24 post number 1424 —

Riddled

From this journal on Dec. 20, 2003 ("White, Geometric, and Eternal") — Riddled: The Absolutist Faith of The New York Times See also Dead Poets'  Word and  A Riddle for…

Bareword

Continued from Epiphany* — Today's New York Times  Word of the Day  is "lexicon." * The word "lexicon" appeared in a Log4 post of Epiphany, 2014, but    …

For the Snow Queen —

Dark Epiphanies Part I:  Part II: "A Little Boy and a Little Girl," by Hans Christian Andersen (second story of the seven that make up The Snow Queen )…