boars and fury

Endless day, in Norway. (endeløs tag)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:47:00 +0000

Endless day, in Norway. (endeløs tag)

by Bobby Doherty

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:38:49 +0000

by Bobby Doherty

language instruction adventures, three

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:59:00 +0000

excerpts from LanguageGuide’s French Grammar: Subjunctive

Elle veut que nous soyons à la fête.
She wants us to be at the party.

J’aimerais que vous m’appeliez demain.
I would like for you to call me tomorrow.

Nous voulons que tu réussisses.
We want you to succeed.

C’est vrai que Frank est né sur Mars.
It’s true that Frank was born on Mars.

Son ambition est que son fils devienne president.
His/her ambition is that his/her son becomes president.

Le roi exige que vous rentriez à Versailles.
The king demands that you return to Versailles.

Que le roi punisse les responsables!
May the king punish those responsible!

Que vos cheveux deviennent vert.
May your hair become green.

Je voulais que tu sois là, mais tu préfères être avec Henri.
I wanted you to be there, but you prefer being with Henri.

Il faut que tu sache la vérité!
You must know the truth!

Il est nécessaire que vous vous rappeliez ce qui est important dans la vie.
It is necessary that you remember what’s important in life.

Il est nécessaire que vous mangiez tous les jours.
It is necessary that you eat every day.

Tiny tiny terraria and succulents in seashells, by Tortoise on Etsy.

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:48:00 +0000

Tiny tiny terraria and succulents in seashells, by Tortoise on Etsy.

DIAGRAM, an electronic publication for (to pick some words from their submission guidelines)...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:04:00 +0000

DIAGRAM, an electronic publication for (to pick some words from their submission guidelines) ‘representations, naming, indicating, schematics, the labelling and taxonomy of things… vivisection, urgency, risk, flamboyance… writing that demonstrates / interaction; the processes / of things, both inner and outer’; An Atlas of Radical Cartography, maps and essays ‘about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration’; A Shoal of Mackerel, an aritsts’ book publishing house based in Glasgow and Göteborg.

connections

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:54:51 +0100

connections:

Things I would love to ask Björk: if Anchor Song references Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 (Op. 132). It’s a mere moment, but I can imagine a seed (and as she says, she went through ‘ten…

Gabriel Sierra

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:14:00 +0100

Proposal for making the mirrors of the world smaller, so the houses will seem to be bigger

Artefact for watching fruits ripening, or for eating them, instead

On Gabriel Sierra [ES] or read in Google’s translation [EN]

Photographs by (and discovery via) William Contreras Alfonso

field-notes (shameless self-promotion; I’d like to find...

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:54:49 +0100

field-notes (shameless self-promotion; I’d like to find other odd corners of this beehive.)

cloudpilot: Garden Apartment via. Dwell

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:31:05 +0100

cloudpilot:

Garden Apartment via. Dwell

I have a unique name, and MIT’s ‘Personas’ toy...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:57:00 +0100

I have a unique name, and MIT’s ‘Personas’ toy draws an intriguing characterisation from the handful of places it appears across cyberspace.

(‘online’ - ‘books’ - ‘education’ - ‘domestic’ - ‘politics’ - ‘art’)

Liverpool:

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:11:00 +0100

Liverpool:

calamus and cinnamon

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:39:02 +0100

calamus and cinnamon:

Appendix Out: ‘The Groves of Lebanon’

I’d forgotten I’d already plugged Last.fm into...

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:17:00 +0100

I’d forgotten I’d already plugged Last.fm into Tumblr, but I’m inordinately pleased with the design of klangfarbe, a home for trying to turn music into words.

(The typeface you might be missing is Constantia. I should have sIFR‘d it, perhaps?)

could I build one of these? how rocky are my carpentry skills? ...

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:46:25 +0100

could I build one of these? how rocky are my carpentry skills? The tallness like a ship’s mast delights me.

colle et papier

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:28:00 +0100

colle et papier

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:57:00 +0100

Alternative, elegant uses for Twitter - like poetry. More?

I like: Nebo Peklo; also known as Natalie Tweedie. (and her blog)

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:15:00 +0100

I like: Nebo Peklo; also known as Natalie Tweedie. (and her blog)

(photo by Project Rwanda) Land of a thousand hills, of bicycles...

Sun, 03 May 2009 19:23:00 +0100

(photo by Project Rwanda)

Land of a thousand hills, of bicycles which carry enormous cargoes. Rwanda now has a professional cycling team – who aren’t too used to getting up on time. Article from the Guardian.

Having started on maths, thought I should bring back to light one of my favourite things: crochet...

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:04:00 +0100

Having started on maths, thought I should bring back to light one of my favourite things: crochet models of hyperbolic planes.

The previous method of modelling hyperbolic planes was William Thurston’s paper method.

Noting that one of the qualities of hyperbolic space is that as you move away from a point the space around it expands exponentially, Thurston designed a paper model made up of thin cresent-shaped annuli taped together.

Not too surprisingly, such a solution proved not at all durable. Dr Daina Taimina’s crochet constructions are ingenious, practical, and absolutely make me smile.

The beauty of Taimina’s method is that many of the intrinsic properties of hyperbolic space now become visible to the eye and can be directly experienced by playing with the models. Geodesics – or straight lines – on the hyperbolic surface can be sewn onto the crochet texture for easy examination. Through the yellow lines in the model below look curved, folding along them demonstrably produces a clean straight line.

Read on for hyperbolic parallels, triangles, cones (pseudospheres – of which the above image is one), and why (if it’s not obvious) models of hyperbolic planes are so delightfully frilly. Article at The Institute for Figuring, and many others too for the curious.

Google Calculator has constants other than ‘miles’, ‘grams’ &c. built...

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:45:57 +0100

Google Calculator has constants other than ‘miles’, ‘grams’ &c. built in. So you can query au/c and be reminded of how long it takes light from the Sun to reach Earth.

(thank you, Language Log)