5/10/10

Late evening

These day’s I’m keeping more & more tabs open as I search through the internet - just thought I’d make a note of what they read like today, and subsequently compose sentences in a paragraph below, extracted from each page in order of appearance and according to what caught my eye most immediately:

Aristotl…

YouTub…

Pepper’…

Dream…

The Pre…

Gilbert…

Paul Ric…

The My…

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Parse|…

Elucidate…

Nationa…

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DDT

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According to Aristotle,

The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames, is an illusionary technique used in theater and in some magic tricks.

Dream worlds: mass consumption in late nineteenth-century France

The Prevalence of Humbug, representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers that shared Wittgenstein’s approach to philosophical problems, is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time.

Search Books, Presentations, Business, Academics…The Myth of Metaphor: The conflict between science and religious faith! Fancy raising that old ghost. I thought by now we were all agreed that religious language, like scientific language, has its own validity in the contexts in which it is appropriate to use it. And since the contexts are different, a conflict could hardly arise. Except trivially, one doesn’t celebrate Mass in the laboratory. Nor measure mass in the cathedral.

to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc. A monthly podcast from the University of Chicago philosophy department. Faculty members and guests talk with two graduate students (Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood) about their latest work, covering a range of topics from the theoretical to the practical, including perception, moral motivation, and sexual orientation conducts interdisciplinary research at the interface of art, design and sustainability, addressing the fields of…Network Fetishisms: Beyoncé, Bicycle Couriers, Digital Divinity, and Development Design’. The focus of the research group is to challenge traditional ideas of connectivity, connection, communication and sociability through the creation of installations and applications that subvert uses of technologies and create situations for questioning.

Insanely accurately and prescient given that Shannon published his seminal papers about communication channels and information only 12 years before this film was made. If only more people understood these ideas. They are applicable well beyond the obvious engineering applications of communication technology, being relevant to human cognition and economics as well.

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5/10/10

Late evening

The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames, is an illusionary technique used in theater and in some magic tricks.

Dream worlds: mass consumption in late nineteenth-century France

The Prevalence of Humbug, representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers that shared Wittgenstein’s approach to philosophical problems, is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time.

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