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links for 2006-12-12: Rigorous Intuition, Peak Oil, Minsky, Dennett, Pynchon, Orwell

Rigorous Intuition (v. 2.0) (tags: blog politics weird UFO) Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash “Dear Reader, Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon…” – good summary of the imminent energy crisis (tags: peakoil energy … more…

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links for 2006-12-05: Grammar of Ornament, Quaternions, Bearden, Bayes, Pollock, Tesla

Owen Jones and the Grammar of Ornament The images are from the 1868 edition of the Grammar of Ornament, by Owen Jones (tags: design ornament library) Quaternion – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia first major speed bump encountered in Against the … more…

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Against the Day: Tetris reference?

Page 123: …Padzhitnoff’s own specialty being to arrange for bricks and masonry, always in the four block fragments which had become his “signature,” to fall on and damage targets… — a Tetris reference, if I’m not mistaken, unspotted (so far) … more…

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Mark Twain’s Ghost

The Loquacious Haruspex offers this marvellous picture of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) in Nikola Tesla’s laboratory. Tesla can be seen in the background. The post points out that Clemens was born and he died under Halley’s Comet (which I … more…

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World’s Fair

Fresh from the ‘Chums of Chance’ opening section of Against The Day, I scratched up a few pages concerning airships and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Expect plenty more AtD-related bloggery here, over the next few months. None of … more…

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Against the Day, at last

I got my copy yesterday. I didn’t pre-order, in the end, deciding that actually walking into a book shop, paying for it and carrying it away would be a more satisfying experience. First impression: the cover took me a little … more…

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New Lecter

This one sneaked up on us: Thomas Harris has completed a new Hannibal Lecter novel, Hannibal Rising, which concerns his early life. It’s due out on December 5th, the same day of publication that a certain other major book which … more…

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Against the Day extract

Yes, indeedy. On the Wikipedia page for Against the Day, we find a publisher’s synopsis concluding with the words, If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to … more…

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Against the Day: more details

More developments with the new Pynchon book: the publication date has been moved forward a couple of weeks to November 21st in the States, although its still December 5th in the UK. Strangely, the page count has also changed, but … more…

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The New Thomas Pynchon (further)

Also via Kottke, I checked out a post called The String Theory Backlash on a blog called Cosmic Variance. I like to keep an eye on debates about string theory because I have a homegrown cosmological hypothesis (with which I … more…

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