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magidA company in England that makes gypsy caravans! First thoughts: if I drove to Burning Man, this would be a pretty fabulous place to live in the city. And I also think of a Rumer Godden book, Diddakoi, about an orphaned Romany girl wanting her own caravan (among other things). I was fascinated with Godden's books as a kid, because they had so much ... inadvertent cruelty, I suppose, is the best phrase. People meaning to be mean, but not to the level they manage, especially due to people from different societies interacting and misunderstanding. People, in most of her books, being kids. At least, in the books I had of hers. I still find some of them hard to read, but useful, too. Anyway, having a caravan like this could let me live a bit of that book, which would be cool.
There's a new font, Nokia Pure. I found it interesting that the developer(s?) made it in a variety of different alphabets.
And while talking fonts, someone has painted these fonts on faces, for some literal type faces.
A friend, Eartha, is part of Psylab, which is having a CD release party tonight at the Middle East. My favorite track is Mars in Aries.
Another friend, Sean, has developed lowRes sustainable sound, a bike-powered music system.
Moving to the silly end of the music spectrum, a Talmud rap, including the Bavlisaurus.
About Jewish oddities, Jon Stewart had a piece on eruvin, the Thin Jew Line (though for the record, one inaccuracy as detailed by 530nm330hz.
Math and Judaism collide in this Sierpinski hamantaschen.
History I had no idea about: Jewish heroes of the African anti-apartheid movement, as shown in... stamps. Why stamps? No clue.
A completely different kind of art made by a locksmith on the Lower East Side, completely decorating the place in keys. I've always been fascinated by keys, without knowing exactly what I'd do with them (there might be a hat with keys on it at some point; I don't think I'd need to have "keymaster" on it :-).
Especially for gamers of a certain age: a Muppet alignment chart. Now I try to picture Waldorf and Statler role-playing some (other) characters...
A fascinating fiber: fluroescent silk; it's cool that this exists, and yet creepy too, in having fed such unnatural things to the silkworms.
If IKEA gave directions for building Stonehenge.
I'm a graph-loving math dork, so finding that there are great graphs of weather data out there is neat-o (this one for Cambridge, but you get the idea).
On a more academic note, Khan Academy has talks on lots of academic subjects. Now I need to have the focus to watch some and learn.
There's a new font, Nokia Pure. I found it interesting that the developer(s?) made it in a variety of different alphabets.
And while talking fonts, someone has painted these fonts on faces, for some literal type faces.
A friend, Eartha, is part of Psylab, which is having a CD release party tonight at the Middle East. My favorite track is Mars in Aries.
Another friend, Sean, has developed lowRes sustainable sound, a bike-powered music system.
Moving to the silly end of the music spectrum, a Talmud rap, including the Bavlisaurus.
About Jewish oddities, Jon Stewart had a piece on eruvin, the Thin Jew Line (though for the record, one inaccuracy as detailed by 530nm330hz.
Math and Judaism collide in this Sierpinski hamantaschen.
History I had no idea about: Jewish heroes of the African anti-apartheid movement, as shown in... stamps. Why stamps? No clue.
A completely different kind of art made by a locksmith on the Lower East Side, completely decorating the place in keys. I've always been fascinated by keys, without knowing exactly what I'd do with them (there might be a hat with keys on it at some point; I don't think I'd need to have "keymaster" on it :-).
Especially for gamers of a certain age: a Muppet alignment chart. Now I try to picture Waldorf and Statler role-playing some (other) characters...
A fascinating fiber: fluroescent silk; it's cool that this exists, and yet creepy too, in having fed such unnatural things to the silkworms.
If IKEA gave directions for building Stonehenge.
I'm a graph-loving math dork, so finding that there are great graphs of weather data out there is neat-o (this one for Cambridge, but you get the idea).
On a more academic note, Khan Academy has talks on lots of academic subjects. Now I need to have the focus to watch some and learn.
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Date: 2011-03-25 08:43 pm (UTC)I know Eartha, through the Slutcracker! Small world...
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Date: 2011-03-25 09:32 pm (UTC)If I had a dedicated place to park and a pickup (or other vehicle) rated to pull it, caravan time!
And yeah, Boston's totally a small small world :-)