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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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Nick Cave's son is a friend of my daughter. He has been around here a few times. An aura surrounds him, placed by other people. The same effect that causes his father to be unable to live in Melbourne. The reaction of other people. My little story is that Jethro waited till I looked away so he could grab a handful of pistachios that were placed for anyone to have.He is only just 15, but about six

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To submit the site to Blog Search Engine, I had to write a descriptive entry.Swarf.“Eclectic musings from Melbourne in science, reading, art. history” is how a friend described my blog in another listing.I have been trying to tease out some autobiographical themes, my name and some places I have been, and having found a theme work out from there and explore that space via the web.From my name I

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Damage to buildings in Cavenagh St. caused by 1937 cyclone.Damage to a house in the 1937 cyclone.In the last few blogs, I have talked about cyclones and my time in Darwin. John mentioned in a comment that his father’s family had left Darwin after the 1937 cyclone, one of the biggest previous cyclones along with the 1897 cyclone.These images are from the Northern Territory LibraryBathurst Bay '

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John and I have been writing over each others blogs, and I have become much more likely to leave comments on other people’s blogs since I started this.This grew out of comments to the last blog as we write about the funky Darwin town of old.Firstly updates:MonicaMany of the viewers of this blog seem to be out of the country so I should say the devastation from Monica did not occur. As Monica made

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When Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam went to China on October 1973, the first question Mao asked him was “Is Port Darwin named after Charles Darwin?Polymath Gough was able to answer affirmatively.The harbour was discovered in 1839 by the Captain of the Beagle, John Lort Stokes, who named it after a former shipmate, British evolutionist Charles Darwin.I have been thinking about Darwin and

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FOTHER, v.t. To place a patch over a hole in the hull, in the form of a mat made by threading lengths of yarn, fibre or cloth into a sail and hauling this under the hull with ropes so that water pressure forced the matted material into any hole, slowing water entry. Cook used the method most famously at Endeavour Reef in 1770. The modern version is called a collision mat.fromGreat Southern Land:

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The Swedish geographer Djurberg was first to use Cook's term Ulimaroa for the Australian continent.Of great mystery to Australians, is the fact that for such a long time Terra Australis was Terra Incognita. Such a big place! So hard to miss!An industry exists in seeking the first landfall by Europeans and piecing together the various pieces to give a clearer picture. As mentioned in a comment an

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Last night on Australian ABC rock trivia show, one question asked Q    What did Johnny Cash do with some Elvis records he had been asked to deliver.A    Throw them over a cliff like frisbees !!!!This reminded me of this photo of the Man in Black that I found somewhere on a site that has mugshots of celebrities in trouble.I love this photo.My categories for this post are Pathetically Personal_

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I am quite new to this blogging, and am still playing with the tools. At Lemuel’s urging, I placed a counter on the site. I expected not much.To my surprise, especially since the Wetherbee blog traffic has been if not brisk then steady. What surprised me most though was the spread of the responses throughout the globe instantly. If I had of thought about it at all, I would have envisioned a

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Bernard of Chartres (Bernardus Carnotensis) was a twelfth-century French philosopherThe earliest attribution of the phrase 'standing on the shoulders of giants' is to Bernhard (by John of Salisbury):"We are like dwarfs standing [or sitting] upon the shoulders of giants, and so able to see more and see farther than the ancients."a different Bernard

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"First, therefore, when you would this science have or find a certainty of any thing that you have doubt of, which cognition and knowledge is profitable and necessary, revolve and think in your mind long while before the matter of the question that you would have in what order soever that it come to your mind. And in the most secret wise call unto you the help of your Creator. And then shall you

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...no parts of this universal frame are less to be called solitarie than those which the vulgar esteem most solitarie, since the withdrawing of men and beasts signifieth but the greater frequency of more excellent creatures.Bernardus Silvestris (12th c) De Mundi Universitate (Cosmographia), quoted by C.S. Lewis in Out of the Silent Planet

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On restarting this blog on the urging of Lemuel, I was struggling to find a focus. I was loath to join the usual left / right slanging match that fills one part of the blogosphere, yet at the same time I did not want to merely record the activities of the day. Following the lead of Lemuel over at Laputan Logic, I decided to garner and gather quirkish elements from across the web.I decided to

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Blogs spread gossip and rumor But how about a Rare, geeky form of poetry?

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What is this and why is it so scary?A worm , the gordian worm, Paragordius tricuspidatus, is exiting its cricket host (Nemobius sylvestris). There is that sylvestris again.This originally in Nature, is blogged in The Loom, a science blog by Carl Zimmer, sometimes NYT writerFrom the same site , I find Blood Lust II.What really scares American leech hunters when they come to Australia.Not thisBut

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I have been following a blog HDTD Halfway down the Danube, by a couple currently near Mt Ararat in Armenia and a friend in New York.It is a wonderful source and pointer to arcana of all kinds, as well as a domestic journal of charm.Yesterday Carlos from Brooklyn quoted James Joyce from Finnegans WakeOne chap googling the holyboy's thingabib and this lad wetting his widdle.In Carlos's blogroll, he

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Continuing on from the blog of yesterday, as urged by Lemuel, Glenn T Seaborg has hypothesised the existence of Islands of Stabilty in the higher ends of the Periodic table. It has been known that most post-uranic elements in the 110’s discovered so far have extremely short lives and quickly decay into previously known elements.Seaborg has suggested that there are nuclear shells, similar to the

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Swarf is good for you.When people look at swarf they smile and look intense.They are working.They are making something.They are fulfilling their dreams.What are these men doing.Looking at swarf, that’s what there doing.What kind of swarfThis is the official experiment where Russian, Swiss, French and American researchers confirmed an earlier experiment about the chemical identification of

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Recently at the extraordinarily good exhibition, Mirror of the World: Books & Ideas at SLV I saw the comic book by Art Spiegelman “IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS.” I was taken by a single frame that showed Dan Rather with the, at that time, damaged towers blue screened in the background.Spiegelman says, in one frame, that on TV even Rather’s head is bigger than the Towers.Whereas Spiegelman being

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 Lemuel over at Laputan Logic has posted a space eclipse that I sent him. In a comment to his blog, I mentioned that I had a quirkish photograph of domestic banality in comparison to his Italian cathedrals.This taken at an eclipse barbecue 12 December 2004, not quite total in Melbourne, better at Ceduna in the Nullabor. 

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I have been digging through the start of the nuclear age in the effort to make a new blog, when I came across this.There have always been contentious arguments about the projected loss of 1 million to take the homeland of Japan. As these further maps show, troops were being moved into KyushuFurther discussion from the CIA papers can be found herehttp://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/4253605299/

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The most memorable launching at White Sands, however, came on February 24, 1949, when a V-2 boosted a WAC Corporal rocket developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 244 miles into space and to a speed of 5,510 miles per hour, the greatest altitude and velocity yet attained by a man-made object.Unfortunately this does not seem to be that launch, rather it seems to be the first at Cape Canaveral,

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An A-bomb blast set off in Nevada at 4:36 a.m., on April 18, 1953, was judged by early risers to have been the most sensationalof any seen so far. The blast made the eastern horizon as “bright as day.” 

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2003-07-04 Blogoisie

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The Cornell Daily Sun

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Over the last while, I have been posting various pieces about Bernardus Sylvestris.At no stage, did I quite explain the context of my interest.Through my childhood, I really hated my second name Sylvester and as far as possible tried to hide it rom view.I had received the name because my uncle Peter Syvester had died young (I think 44), tragically a few months before I was born.He was only having

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Steffenson World Record?His 44.73 is the best for the year doesn’t look great against Michael Johnson’s 43.18.However the world record was run in 1999, and in the more drug free 2000’s , 43.93 by Jeremy Wariner USA on August 12, 2005 at Helsinki is the best and the only one of the top ten 400m from the new millenium to have entered the top ten.

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Winthrop (Pete) Wetherbee retired last fall after 37 years at Cornell University. A native of Boston, he earned a BA from Harvard, an MA from the University of Leeds, and a PhD from Berkeley in 1967, the year he joined the Cornell faculty as an assistant professor of medieval literature. He was granted early tenure after completing Platonism and Poetry in the Twelfth Century, a study of the

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Bernard Sylvester of Chartres(More properly, of Tours.) A twelfth-century philosopher of Neo-Platonic tendencies. Little is known about him. Between the years 1145 and 1153 he composed a work called "De Mundi Universitate", which he dedicated to Thierry (Theodoric) of Chartres with the words "Terrico veris scientiarum titulis Doctori famosissimo Bernardus Sylvestris opus suum". From this

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Free Dictionary by FarlexBernard Silvestris(redirected from Bernardus Silvestris)Bernard Silvestris, also known as Bernardus Silvestris, was a Medieval platonist philosopher and poet of the 12th century. BiographyLittle is known about his life. André Vernet, who edited Bernard's Cosmographia, believed that he lived from 1085 to 1178; the only certain date in his life is 1147, when the

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This is a stub of an article to be added later.Loner MenUnabomberThomas PynchonJerome David Salinger

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This is a stub of an article to be added laterA miraculous tree is described which bears many kinds of spices, as in Bernardus Sylvestris' De Mundi Universitate:In the praer is a tre,Swithe likful for to se:The rote is gingevir and galingale;The siouns beth al sedwale;Trie maces beth the flure;The rind, canel of swet odur;The frute, gilofre of gode smakke;Of cucubes ther is no lakke. (71-78)[In

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Recently in Perth. I became interested in the Aboriginal population that is so much more apparent than the fairly ghettoised population in Melbourne.I met an author, who had documented historical sources in regard to aboriginal tribes of the Swan Valley, that is close to and within Perth.I thought that the rather abstract debate of a few years ago, with its “Terra Nullius” etc. was brought into

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I came across this a while ago.To me it seems almost worth the while of the Space station that a bit of raw science, still gets through. It makes you wonder what other phenomena are affected by weightlessness, or in this case, zero-gravityDon Pettit had been reading C. V. Boys' book "Soap Bubbles" on the space station on February 25, 2003, when he decided to carry out some simple soap bubble

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Once i said to David(Zhang da Wei) from Shanghai"Ah David, don't you know even a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. "How you know that!" he yelled in shock. I looked as inscrutable as possible.

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