September 2009
48 posts
Photo of The Day by Diadà | Urbansand →
I have this print in my living room, but not hanging
“Now you can donate to Dr Karanka’s Print Stravaganza. All the donations...”
– Dr Karanka’s Print Stravaganza
“Alan Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on...”
– Gordon Brown issues posthumous apology to Bletchley Park codebreaker - Telegraph
“Quite a brilliant mathematician”? I wonder why we call them Turing machines
marc davidson – artifacts | burn magazine →
“When our father died in the Twin Towers attack on 9/11, my brother and I were left with the task of entering his apartment for the first time. Thinking practically, we were looking for things that would help us tie up all the loose ends of his life: a will, phone numbers, bank stuff, insurance stuff. We found much more. We found artifacts which showed us parts of our father we’d never...
“Now independent curators and entrepreneurial artists like Mr. Tarrant are...”
– London Artists Turn Empty Commercial Space Into Galleries - NYTimes.com (via lapuravidagallery)
“Good Samaritan makes no secret of where it stands on the issue; the government...”
– The Grapes of Wrath revisited: a modern-day road trip through John Steinbeck’s fiction to Barack Obama’s reality | World news | guardian.co.uk
“The late Brazilian bishop Dom Hélder Câmara said it well: “When I give...”
– Why Is Universal Health Care ‘Un-American’? | CommonDreams.org
