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A Little Like

"Olympic opening ceremonies are a little like a Match.com first date…." — Alessandra Stanley, page D4 of the New York edition of this morning's print NY Times The late poet  Rubén…

The Representation of Minus One

For the late mathematics educator Zoltan Dienes. "There comes a time when the learner has identified the abstract content of a number of different games and is practically…

Mystery Box II

Continued from previous post and from Sept. 8, 2009. Examination of the box's contents does not solve the contents' real mystery. That requires knowledge of the non-Euclidean geometry of Galois space. In…

Mystery Box

In honor of the tenth anniversary of Facebook Viewed in the Chrome browser, a Facebook post from January 29, 2014, displays an artist's Mystery Box*… In the Internet Explorer browser,…

Occupy Wall

Moss on the Wall  (Continued) Tom Cruise at the Vatican in Mission: Impossible III  (2006) — Starring Tom Cruise as Ezekiel Moss, "a mysterious drifter with the divine ability to…

Designs

This journal a year ago yesterday— “Some designs work subtly. Others are successful through sheer force.” — Penelope Green Subtly: Sheer force:

Say It With Flowers

The title is a reference to the Jan. 4 post "Learning Guide." Update of 7:59 PM ET Feb. 2 — "… they entered the apartment together around 11:30 a.m." — NY…

Diamond Theory Roulette

A ReCode Project program from Radamés Ajna of São Paulo — At the program's webpage, click the image to generate random permutations of rows, columns, and quadrants. Note the resulting image's ordinary or color-interchange…

A Shadow for Groundhog Day

Alec Baldwin as Lamont Cranston Compare and contrast with the psychoanalyst in Remembrance (January 27, 2014).

ART WARS (continued)

A sequel to Friday afternoon's Diamond Star Diamond Star — Log24 on January 7, 2012 — A doodle from this year's [2012’s]  Feast of the Epiphany— A doodle based on today's previous…