Tag: Wrinkle IT

Putting the "I" in "IT"

Jennifer Scott at IT Pro , Feb. 16, 2012, on Autonomy— Mike Lynch, founder of Autonomy  and vice president of information management at HP, took to the stage at his…

Monday September 21, 2009

Keys A Google search for "Das Scheinen," a very rough translation into Heidegger's German of "The Shining," leads to a song. A search for the English version of…

Tuesday August 21, 2007

In the Details Symbol from the box-style I Ching Related material: The five Log24 entries ending on August 1 Illustration by Lou Beach in today's New York Times…

Tuesday April 3, 2007

  Related material: "But what is it?" Calvin demanded. "We know that it's evil, but what is it?" "Yyouu hhave ssaidd itt!" Mrs. Which's voice rang out. "Itt…

Monday March 19, 2007

The Naked Brain The cover (pdf) of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society for April 2007 (Mathematics Awareness Month) features a naked disembodied brain (Log24, March 16),…

Friday March 16, 2007

"Geometry,  Theology,  and Politics:   Context and Consequences of  the Hobbes-Wallis Dispute" (pdf)   by Douglas M. Jesseph Dept. of Philosophy and Religion North Carolina State University Excerpt:…

Saturday January 27, 2007

Art and the Holy Spirit Madeleine L'Engle in The Irrational Season (1977), beginning of Chapter 9 (on Pentecost): "The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is…

Friday January 26, 2007

  IT   "… at last she realized what the Thing on the dais was. IT was a brain. A disembodied brain…."   "There could not be an…

Saturday June 11, 2005

Evil Some academics may feel that a denunciation of an essay by one of their fellow academics as "evil" (see this morning's entry The Last Word) goes too…

Friday August 30, 2002

For Mary Shelley, on her birthday: A Chain of Links The creator of Frankenstein might appreciate the following chain of thought. Lucifer.com Lucifer Media Corporation Lucifer Media Sites The…