Saturday 29 January 2011
colourfast or ghost of laundry future
One experiment, which I always found maddening and counter-intuitive but I do not think others are so easily impressed, is that two polarized lenses never fully cancel one another out, as I’d expect: each only lets 50% of light through and rotating the other around, even when the filter is at a right angle, perpendicular to the other, still lets 25% of the light to sneak through in as a particle-wave prankster.
Friday 28 January 2011
dromedary
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the US response to the revolt in Egypt is mild, cordial to the old despot, as if in these past three decades, he could most heinously be called the Grinch who stole Twitter. The sympathy is creeping although, and however shameful the lack of support and commitment may be for revolution, it is perhaps more telling of America’s dwindling relevance.
spectral analysis or pink is like red but not quite
catagories: ๐ง , graphic design
Thursday 27 January 2011
der zauberberg oder table, donkey and stick
The gathering of the World Economic Forum annually in the alpine retreat, exclusive and guarded, is a very strange, ornamented ritual, and I wonder if Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), set in a sanitorium in the same village, is required reading for any and all attendees.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ซ๐ท, ๐, ๐, economic policy, foreign policy
no sugar tonight/new mother nature
catagories: graphic design, labour, lifestyle