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Christmas Ornaments

Continued from December 25— A link from Sunday afternoon to Nov. 26, 2012, suggests a review of one of the above structures. The Dreaming Jewels  cover at left is…

A Wilderness of Mirrors

A link to a Nov. 22 post on Arcade Fire was added today to yesterday's "Dating an OS" post.  That Nov. 22 post suggests a review related to a…

Good Question

Amy Adams in the new film “Her” — “You’re dating an OS?  What is that like?” — Question quoted in a Hollywood Reporter story on the film’s second trailer…

Dreigroschen Trifft Vierfarben

See also Pop Meets Hochkultur in a post of Dec. 18, 2013. Some background for that post— July 19, 2008.

Space Epiphany

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Occupy Space

(Continued) Many people enter the merry- go-round. Here and there one catches a phrase — "Room for one more on the hippo's back"…. — Adapted from the prologue to…

Dicey

For fans of Hunger Games  and Elysium — Roberta Smith in this evening's* online New York Times— "Especially with the gap between the wealthiest and everyone else so wide,…

How It Works

(Continued) “Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs “By far the most important structure in design theory is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).” — “Block Designs,” by Andries E….

Boxing Day

See "Glory Road" + "Black Box."

Rotating the Facets

Previous post— "… her mind rotated the facts…." Related material— hypercube rotation,* in the context of rotational symmetries of the Platonic solids: "I've heard of affairs that are strictly Platonic"…