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{ Monthly archives }
An illustration of a favorite novel, Don DeLillo’s White Noise.
One bar per chapter; taller is longer. Parts are color-coded as follows:
Note that the single chapter comprising “The Airborne Toxic Event” begins one-third of the way through the novel and ends just past the half-way point.
(Help yourself to an archive of the actual data, if interested.)
In celebration of Arbor Day, please read Twenty-Five Years of Post-it Notes.
I mentioned to George today that we’re approaching the point where there are an equal number of posts with pictures of the snowy tulips and posts about how many posts there were with pictures of the snowy tulips (1, 2, 3, and so forth).
What does this mean? I guess I quote Scott McCloud on the artistic impulse: “evolution sets a narrow path … [we think] we stray far more than we do.”
A cold and flowering day. Photos from Scott, Ypsidixit, Mark, and David Fry.
Update: More tulips from Cyndy.
Update 2: Sarah has snow, no tulips, sadly. And more generally, see Arbor Blogs pictures and flickr ‘annarbor’ photos.
Update 3: Aaron checks out Leonard Cohen’s “blizzard of the world.”
They say that the system is the solution.
On April 23, 1616, a man called William Shakespeare died.
On April 23, 1564, a man called William Shakespeare was born.
“…it is the international system of currency which determines the vitality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the ATOMIC and SUBATOMIC and GALACTIC structure of things today. … There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM, ITT, AT&T, DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, Exxon.” — Mr. Jensen, Network
