“Hackety Hack! got a beautiful redesign last week. It’s an application that you can download that uses Shoes to teach you how to program in Ruby. It’s designed to start from scratch and guide you through writing programs— this is the tool for people who have never written a line of code in their lives; who may not even know that a ‘line of code’ is a thing that makes up a computer program.” — Casey Kolderup
Quasicrystals as sums of waves in the plane
Cosine Gradient. Rotated and Merged. Moving Forward. Quasicrystal.
“Work of Fiction is a strange little game. 20 puzzles to solve and an enormous conspiracy theory to uncover.” - 2DArray
Sending Zzzzzs Across the Pond - A wally glutton sleepytime mix I made in early 2008.
Does this image look random to you? It’s the product of the PHP (for Windows) random number generator.
Is there really such a thing as True Randomness, or are there simply patterns that humans cannot discern that we conveniently call Random?
Whale Fall (after life of a whale)
Lenin and other Baby Marx student woodcuts.
Cypress Trees in Texas - via
Man sued over a Hyp-
hen that caused Mans-
laughter.
This is a fictional dialogue where one character comments that marionettes possess a grace humans do not, even though the marionettes are themselves controlled by humans.
From the post-script: “Kleist’s essay pivots around a reference to the third chapter of the book of Genesis, the story of the Fall of Man, the discovery of that self-consciousness which establishes and perpetuates human isolation. But ‘discovery’ implies a historical event. [However, it] is only our concept of time which makes us think of the Fall of Man as a historical event in the distant past. It is happening all the time. The biblical story is a mythical representation of constant human awareness of self.”
From Wikipedia: “Our consciousness and capacity for reflection cause us to doubt ourselves or become self-conscious, and prevents us from acting with the singlemindedness and purity of an animal or a puppet. And yet, consciousness is the effect of eating from the tree of knowledge, and we cannot escape it, as long as we are barred from Eden.”
In other words, as we become self-aware (which we all do as we grow up) we fall from grace. Kleist posits that the only way to return to this state of grace is through the continued pursuit of knowledge, the continued discovery of self. And perhaps that is what we call wisdom, the grace of youthful innocence regained through conscious self-discovery. A backdoor to the Garden.
“I love the shape of the place; I love the green of its ceiling, pierced by the spires of aging churches and the battered red bricks of old post-war apartments. They’re mostly condos now. Because the Village has changed, but not for the worse. When I moved into the Village, it seemed most people here were like me: young, teens and early 20s, out for a party, buying pot at the Circle and mix at Shoppers and moving on into the arterial back lanes.”
Private school student starts a library of school-banned books out of his or her locker. (Original question deleted at Yahoo Answers. Preserved as an image.)
Transit Yarn Bomb. Booya!
What is up with Noises? (The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch)
