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Riding the Now
[Today’s image is of the literal-minded “Now Watch,” widely believed to be the most accurate timepiece ever. Found it at Wired’s Gadget Lab blog.] From whiskey river: And if there is not any such thing...
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Her Little Voice
[Above is the longer version of the Twin Peaks opening title sequence, including a fairly complete cast listing (at least for the recurring characters). The “official” and higher- quality version,...
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“What If You Get a Question Wrong?”
[Image: detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch (click image for a much larger view of the whole triptych)] From whiskey river: You Learn You learn. After a while you learn the...
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The Fundamental Things Apply
[Below, click Play button to begin well, playing. During this time, volume control will appear at left — a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 4:22 long.] On March 1, 1991 — twenty years ago...
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“Basking in the Glow of an Imagined Future”
[Image: illustration from a December 20101 post, “The Time Travelling Brain,” at the Neuroskeptic blog. The orange-highlighted region of the brain is apparently used both in remembering the past, and...
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Infinitely More Than Meets the Eye
[Image: “Infinity Mirror Room,” by user ®DS on Flickr. If you’ve got a fast Internet connection, you’ll want to click on it to see the full-scale panorama — it’s 4.6MB in size. (Right-click and open...
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To Be, Not to Be, or Barely to Be?
[Image: “unbeing dead isn’t being alive,” by Nicole Pierce on Flickr. (Used under a Creative Commons license.) The title of this image alludes, apparently, to a quotation by E.E. Cummings — it’s...
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Perfectly Mistaken
[Image: “D1 / typo incident,” by Zoolette Des Bois on Flickr.com. Used under a Creative Commons license. Edit to add: the sign seems to be a marker at this location in London, on a particularly bad...
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To Recognize the Rarest Part of You
[Image: “L’Empire des lumières” (commonly translated as “The Empire of Light,” although I’ve also seen it as “The Dominion of Light” — which I myself rather prefer), by René Magritte. This is one of...
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There’s Nothing as Something as One
[Image: “One PM,” by John E. Simpson. (Photo shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page at RAMH.)] From whiskey river: Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina There...
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