All those giga-monkeys can't be wrong (or can they ?)

Posted by ungraspiness Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:48:00 GMT

On Oct. 9, 1903, the New York Times wrote: “The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years.”

On the same day, on Kill Devil Hill, N.C., in his diary, a bicycle mechanic named Orville Wright wrote: “We unpacked rest of goods for new machine.”


Travis Louie – Unusual Circumstances / minty

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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave..."

Posted by ungraspiness Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:23:00 GMT


The Arnolfini Portrait – Jan van Eyck, 1434
Oil on oak panel of 3 vertical boards 82.2 (panel 84.5) × 60 (panel 62.5) cm, 32.4 × 23.6 in National Gallery, London

The following quote usually comes to mind when thinking of this famous work —“Who drinks well, God shall see. Who drains at a single draught, Shall see God and the Magdalene.” – Rene d’Anjou 15th century king

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