Shoes
Make colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
Some explanations, plus a link to a modernized translation of Gödel’s original paper.
“Solar panels heat the water, and a wind turbine on the roof generates electricity. Rainwater is collected in a 3,000-gallon cistern, then filtered, treated and pumped through the house for cleaning purposes.”
Choose.
Winnipeg: Love or Hate
Photos of my home town. Many of them were shot in HDR.
Best (and Worst) from the same photographer.
The building on the left is the Winnipeg Clinic. My parents would bring me here to visit our pediatrician.
I remember elevator buttons that weren’t actually buttons but some sort of 1940s high-tech touch sensor. (Or is this actually a memory from The Bay?)
Sitting in the waiting room I would stare out from below one of those beautifully curved awnings, fascinated by the mirrored surface of the building across the street. I searched the grid for a pattern to explain the positions of the different coloured windows.
His Winnipeg
An Interview with Guy Maddin [Aug 2008]
superimpose
Bridges 2008 - Leeuwarden, NL
Annual conference on mathematical connections in Art, Music, and Science celebrating the 110th Birth Year of M.C. Escher in his Birthplace.
The Ampersand
An attempt to give this humble ligature the respect it deserves.
Tilings Encyclopedia
In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.
The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
A story by Cory Doctorow about geek monasteries that house smart people who can’t get along in the world and put them to work as coders.
Fan Out
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a two-volume theoretical work by the French authors Deleuze and Guattari. Its two volumes, published eight years apart, are Anti-Œdipus and A Thousand Plateaus.
Translators note from A Thousand Plateaus:
“This is a book that speaks of many things, of ticks and quilts and fuzzy sub- sets and noology and political economy. It is difficult to know how to approach it. What do you do with a book that dedicates an entire chapter to music and animal behavior—and then claims that it isn’t a chapter?”
Read them in PDF:
via wood s lot via Continental Philosophy.
A paragraph by paragraph diagrammatic interpretation of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus, by artist Marc Ngui.
21 Aphorisms
from Cabinet Magazine online. (btw)
Words and chords.
The semantic shifts of the Beatles’ chords.