Archives » June, 2007

Summer Holidays

Now that school has ended for the summer, and marking exams has all-but ended, I have some seven weeks to fill with interesting activity. It looks as if I will have to become interested in painting because that is what is thrust upon me, along with all the other handy-man activities that need doing.
In preparation [...]

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Rhetorical Figures

Aren’t you glad that there’s a word for “stopping a sentence in midcourse so that the statement is unfinished”?

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An opinionated man

A Nice Cup of Tea by George Orwell, first published in 1946.

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The Abduction Lamp

Me want!

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An Ordinary Building

As a piece of art, this postmordern placard is brilliant. The artist’s statement that history is “pure fiction” is, to say the least, short sighted. Tell survivors of the Nazi concentration camps that their particular history is pure fiction, and see what reactions you get.

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Most Important Image Ever Taken

My personal jury is out on the most important image ever taken. It could be this one (embedded video), but I am more inclined to think that Earth Rising more deserving of the title.
My reasoning is that Earth Rising formed the foundation of the Hubble image: it gave us the insight into the possibility [...]

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Letter from a museum

Sometimes I wish I had the imagination of the man who received this letter. Only sometimes, mind you.

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Numerals

Having seen 1923 given as MDCCCCXXII, I guessed that there must be more than one correct form for Roman numerals. It appears I was right, as this discussion of 1999 shows.

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Library

I want to live here.

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Pen And Ink

A bit of doodling fun (Flash).

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