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The London Metropolitan Police admitted there had been no complaints, but none the less they took a dim view of Derrick Santini’s modern rendering of Zeus ravishing Leda, the myth of the conception of Helen of Troy.
An officer took exception as…
Bibliomules are used to “spread the joys of reading” in the foothills of the Venezuelan Andes, especially in the most rural areas where more conventional transport cannot reach.
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The following is a transcript of a conversation between a young woman giving the Touring Test to the ELIZA program (Named after the character in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion) in the Project MAC computer at MIT in 1966.
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Some nattily-attired chaps protesting the coming of Abercrombie and Fitch to Savile Row, London.
The protest began in earnest at 10:15am, when chumrades in arms marched around the corner to Abercrombie’s flagship store on Burlington Gardens, stabbin…
On Monday artist and museum curator Antonio Manfredi burned a painting as the artist watched via Skype. Manfredi has stated that he intends to burn three paintings a week in protest of the harsh cuts the austerity measures have imposed on cultur…
The Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Lijeroth, has become the focal point of a controversy in which she has been accused of racism. There have been calls for her resignation. It all began when the Minister participated in an art…
When the Polish composed Andre’ Tchaikowski died in 1982, he donated his body to science, but had left instructions requesting that his head, or rather his skull, be donated to the Royal Shakespeare Company in the hope that he might have t…
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: March 21, 2002 (age 32) If helping someone move is socially challenging for the best of friends, it is colossally awkward for complete … Read more
“The way to Hell is easy:
Night and day the gates of black Ditis stand open.” Virgil
While drilling in 1971, Soviet geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. The gro…
Thanks to Will Shetterly for finding this wonderful parable that is as valid today as ever.
Just click on his name above.
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