tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52146472009-12-03T12:05:04.834+11:00cylindrical metallic swirls, residue of the tooling processBernardus Sylvestrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09460506685475754845noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214647.post-1157601939840567382006-09-07T13:15:00.000+10:002006-09-07T14:10:37.496+10:00

I have made a few new posts over in Maelstrom and shall probably post over there in the future.Sanskrit studiesBeyond the siglaFirst space flightCrisis in HollywoodThe potential for categories is appealingBeta Blogger is as yet unfinished

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In response to a question elsewhere, here is a list of the sigla (singular siglum) used in James joyces Finnegans WakeThis didn't work. Blogger has a problem with multiple graphics I think. I have posted at Maelstrom , my new beta-blogger

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This one's for foodkitty

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"Let’s get this mutha outta here"Apollo 17’s Eugene CernanfromMOON WALKERHow Neil Armstrong brought the space program down to earth.by THOMAS MALLON

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I have been testing the waters with the Beta of the new blogger now with categories.Maelstrom

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Some how when you find that someone who sets out to repeat Caleb Smith's walk on every street on Manhattan, runs into someone who is pulling a frozen chicken as a deputy blogger for Tom Green it may be the time to pull the plug on blogging as a "they shoot horses don't they" phenomena or whatever.I guess everything has its own dynamic, and blogging's is emergent rather than contained.Probably

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Questions of cartography and languageWhile browsing my new best friend Erin's blog modestly titled "The Erin O'Brien Owner's Manual for Human Beings" I noticed that she and some of her friends had gathered in honour of my birthday on February 24 and held a festive occasion that was documented by artist/ participant Dongley Shlongford. This was even more remarkable in that they didn't even know me

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As of 7.46 pm EST Auatralia the above photo is part of a "The Age" of Melbourne story with following caption.Central figure: Rashid Rauf, 25, who is thought to be linked to al-Qaeda, was arrested in Pakistan.Photo: The Agemeanwhile "The Times" of London has the same picture with captionMatiur Rehman was named as the possible mastermind behind the terrorist plot. A number of suspects are known to

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Image Detail from Untitled, 1973 by Phillip Gustonfor no particular reasonI have been having trouble with my "Read More" features which breaks up large posts so that it doesn't take forever to scroll the front page. So I have split the last post about the thirtieth anniversary of "Taxi Driver" in two pieces.The Guardian in 2004 ran the following an interview with Schrader about Taxi Driver'There

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Perhaps today is not the day to continue an examination of a film that catalogues and examines violence in our society.Or perhaps that is what drives me in that direction.Continuing from the last post, two excellent articles from the GuardianThe first a review of the film as seen now.Robert De Niro is almost radioactive with charisma ... Taxi DriverTaxi Driver Peter Bradshaw Friday July 14, 2006

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Over on Luca Antara, Martin has finished the proofs of his book and returned to driving taxis and also writing transcendental posts about phantasmagorical suburbs of the Metropolis.This lead to an exchange in his blog comments as to the film Taxi Driver and subsequent films. His other suggestion 'Light Sleeper’ written and directed by Paul Schrader and mine ‘Bringing out the Dead’ written by

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Firstly I wanted to add the companion day picture to complete the Kath and Kel Day-Night doubleThen on matters astronomicalFood Kitty has asked via comments about the closeness of Mars in August. Apparently rumours abound. However she will have to wait at least until 2287 for mars to be as close as three years ago in 2003 when on August 27th Mars came to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth. At

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This is in response to the great image on Hobart Life (No Oxymorons)Australia, as country and continent, at least has unicity in these hemispheric images.This is moody Australia

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Cigarettes Are SublimeRichard Klein quotes Theodore de Banville who wrote “L’art por l’art”Banville recognizes how radically useless cigarette smoking must be:“This murderous pastime,” he says, demands “more qualities, aptitudes, and marvelous gifts than all that is required to enchant, to dominate, to govern men and women.”He acknowledges explicitly that to give oneself to cigarettes is“to put

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Painting, Smoking, Eating1973Guston, PhilipI have been having a strange time.I have given up smoking.Today marks four weeks.I am all over the place.Yesterday I realised that I also need to cut down my coffee intake.On checking the Internet, I found that caffeine has double the effect after ceasing smoking. So now I need to work on this.The Guston above echoes my position.I was reading Robert

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A messy postOver here on Luca Antara, Martin is talking about Joe Strummer trying to get Johnny Cash to sing his song Road To Rock 'N' Roll.Meanwhile on an entirely different track I am finally getting around to listening to the Henry Rollins broadcast as part of the PBS FM Melbourne tribute to the late Mick Geyer, when suddenly Henry starts describing a meeting between JC and JSRick Reuben came

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Since I came to rivercity I have found several myplaces, places in the old wharves near here. Places where a mixture of decay and desolation might satisfy a solitary urge. A road runs between two factories, one receiving gypsum and making plasterboard right there,the other a large fertiliser factory that unloaded guano. The road is nearly a mile long and when my kids were younger, it was the

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The artists and the Ngurrara II painting. Fitzroy Crossing, Australia, May 2003.Several New Yorker writers are visiting the Sydney Writers Festival this week and the New Yorker has an online archive link to their writings and also Australian writing that it has published in the past.Among the offerings online isThe Painted DesertHow Aborigines turned ancient rituals into chic contemporary art.by

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Click here to use the Enigma machineSince Alan Turing ate the “Snow White” apple that ended his life, he has become a cult figure. One of those whose surnames enters the language. His early work defined what the computer could theoretically do.He is considered along with Alonzo Church,independently in 1936 the solver of the Entscheidungsproblem posed by Hilbert.The Entscheidungsproblem (German

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I have been playing with a word for several years to describe the phenomenon of grasping the world through images rather than text or sound, and had been playing with visuate or visualcy. Clearly cognate with literacy, numeracy.It does not appear in Dictionary of Difficult Words. I also use OneLook which scans Encarta, Websters and others. No result. Same with Wiktionary It is hard to be first,

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EM: Yes. [Laughs.] I mean, it kind of jumps out at you. When McNamara talked about how they were doing tests by dropping skulls down the stairwells of the dormitories at Cornell... I hear something like that and I know we're going to be shooting a reenactment somewhere. With skulls.By the way, the skulls we used were a mixture of fake and real skulls. Because real skulls are cheaper. So if you're

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Certain shameless self promoters use Einstein's Blackboard for their own porpoises.Albert EinsteinPhysicist Einstein’s blackboard was used in a lecture in Oxford on 16 May 1931. At that time Einstein’s theories of relativity were being combined with astronomical data to explain the shifts towards the red in the spectra of distant galaxies, which indicated that the universe was expanding. In his

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In the current edition of the White Hat quiz that I mentioned last week, White asks a question about Dudley Flats, a now lost part of Melbourne. The above photograph shows adequately the depth of poverty, that drove people to live in such dwellings in the 1930's. It was taken by Frederick Oswald Barnett for the Housing Investigation and Slum Abolition Board, Victoria and is dated 1935.The

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this is just a test blogI am trying out several category makersOne at Blogger Categories in 5 minutes (A different approach)and the del.icio.us tag maker at Greasemonkey Method: Update for Firefox 1.5 and Greasemonkey 0.6.4using the Swedish method of Johan Sundstrom at Blogger publish ping and categorizer toolMy categories for this post are Blogger_Tags:These are my del.icio.us tags for this

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I subscribe to a Melbourne based newsletter "Great Things to do in Melbourne - the White Hat guide", this talks about local events and festivals. The people who run it also carry out walking tours of Murders of Melbourne or the Melbourne General Cemetery with its Elvis Memorial. They are good at quirkish corners of the city, and the things locals do rather than just the official Tourist spotsIn

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