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A scene from the 2002 film Max— (Click for a video on the film.) Related material— This journal, posts of Sept. 8-9, 2013. Some backstory— Outsider Art, and an obituary…
Microsoft in 2009 on its new search engine name— "We like Bing because it sounds off in our heads when we think about that moment of discovery and…
"How about another hand for the band? They work real hard for it. The Cherokee Cowboys, ladies and gentlemen." — Ray Price, video, "Danny Boy Mid 80's Live"…
"Mr. Nissenson took years to create alternative worlds in pursuing questions of faith in books like 'The Tree of Life.'" — NY Times obituaries index this evening "O fearful…
The above image is from Geometry of the 4×4 Square. (The link "Visible Mathematics" in today's previous post, Quartet, led to a post linked to that page, among others.) Note that…
Happy Beethoven's Birthday. Related material: Abel 2005 and, more generally, Abel. See also Visible Mathematics.
The New York Times this evening has a story on "A Piece of Work," an avant-garde production at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) that is to open Wednesday. A background…
A+ with garlands.
Odin's Jewel Jim Holt, the author of remarks in yesterday's Saturday evening post— "It turns out that the Kyoto school of Buddhism makes Heidegger seem like Rush Limbaugh—…
The title, which I dislike, is taken from a 2011 publication of the MAA, also sold by Cambridge University Press. Some material relevant to the title adjective: "For those…