Superheroes and Super Villains in Old War Photos, by Agan Harahap.
From the work of Agan Harahap, who “has taken classic movie and comic book characters out of the realm of fantasy and placed them in the even grittier realm of real history.” Read the article on http://twentytwowords.com/superheroes-and-super-villains-i…/ and visit his photo set on Flickr for more info on most these pics…: http://www.flickr.com/…/31199746@N02/sets/72157622452249309/
The following passage did not exist until now. Yet, it always existed, and even more, it has always been existing in the virtual Library of Babel. This is the realm of all possible books ever written and yet to be written. Of all possible remedies, cures, theorems, poems, novels, papers, news happened and news yet to happen. This is the passage which is being written **now** and yet always existed.
The Article That Was Not
I never completed this little article I was writing on the virtual Library of Babel. Fact is, I had read a genial review on The Guardian and began thinking. How fun, to have potentially all things the human mind can produce, before they get produced. The truths and falsehoods, the theorems, the cures, all the poems ever to be written. Even this piece, considering it is not even finished nor published.
This is the result of a serch for such passage in the Virtual Library of Babel.
This is written on Volume 16 on Shelf 2 of Wall 2 (of a numbered Hexagon), at page 115 (of 410 —all volumes have equal length). And the passage is written there and has always been written since the beginning of time. For such is the Library of Babel. Of course, such discourse hath a Web URL: http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?thearticlethatwasnot
Now, it occurs to me to have another try, this time searching for something classical:
http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?nelmezzodelcammin
[The book you were reading was Volume 19 on Shelf 2 of Wall 2 of Hexagon …. (page 115)]
But Dante could not know —nor conceive that I would (750 years after his birth) modify just the last word of each of the first five verses. What if this work too was already writ in stone (or in software)??
Poor Dante, this is sacrilege. But here, in this url will your soul find such apocryphal verse: http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?nelmezzo2 which thou can find in Volume 29 (Page 31), on Shelf 3, in Wall 4 of (some) Hexagon.
El universo (que otros llaman la Biblioteca) se compone de un número indefinido, y tal vez infinito, de galerías hexagonales.
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
This thoughts have been inspired by an article appeared on The Guardian (4 May 2015): Virtual Library of Babel makes Borges’s infinite store of books a reality – almost, by Alison Flood.
“To take a recent example, the confidential documents leaked by Edward Snowden … will be there somewhere. It’s only a matter of knowing where to look for them.”
The article itself, written 74 years later than Borges’ tale, is of course on the Virtual Library of Babel, http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?virtual_library_of_babel_makes), while The Tale that spun off everything is at http://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?la_biblioteca_de_babel.
“libraryofbabel.info is the creation of Jonathan Basile, along with the help of many friends and family. I was drawn to the idea by an interest in literature and iterability, which I suppose I might as well call iterature. I hope you find the library aids your meditations, and please let me know via the forum or email (jonathan [dot] e [dot] basile [at] gmail [dot] com) what thoughts it brings. Building the library has given me a great desire to permute, and I continue to seek other venues in which to undermine rational discourse, such as the Permuda Triangle.”
“If completed, the Library of Babel would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be – including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.”
Which one wouldn’t hope to finish reading before the sun has eaten out the Earth.
This is tear-bringing. Smile-inducing. Sweet.
The Brown sisters have a photo portrait of them taken every year for forty years. A splendid, heart warming, light collection. On the New York Times: Go see it.
Forty Portraits in Forty Years Photographs by NICHOLAS NIXON. The New York Times, 3 Oct. 2014.
2014, Wellfleet, Mass. The latest portrait in this series. The New York Times, 3 Oct. 2014. Photo by Nicholas Nixon.
Not exactly a new idea, but still, very powerful. The same concept, but accelerated to one second a day, comes from Cesar Kuriyama. Imagine being able to grab one second from every day and at year’s end join all the pieces and create a 365-second movie of your life –bright and sad moments included?? Would you do it?
Here is his app; and here is Cesar’s TED Talk:
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Doctopus – New Visions CloudLab
Doctopus makes it easier for teachers to share, organize, and assess student work in Google Drive.
Its tentacles copy and “hand out” Drive files to a roster of students, giving teachers full control over starter template, sharing configuration, folder organization and file naming, as well as full visibility over all work in progress — including the ability to bulk revoke and revert student editing rights.
Bridgy is a service that pulls comments, likes, and reshares on social networks back to your web site. You can also use it to post to social networks – or comment, like, reshare, or even RSVP – from your own web site.
A terrific flashback from my own teenager era. Suddenly, when talking with friend John on old TV series (he noticed we’ve come back to TV series as in the 70’s), I googled “UFO series” because I suddenly remembered of a series I adored when I was a kid. It was a series on UFOs, so that’s what I searched for. And this is what I found, thanks to the open magik of the Web. Everything about the UFO series!!
Says Wikipedia:
[UFO (TV series) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
UFO is a 1970 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth, created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade’s Century 21 Productions for Grade’s ITC Entertainment company.
UFO first aired in the UK and Canada in 1970 and in US syndication over the next two years. In all, 26 episodes, including the pilot, were filmed over the course of more than a year, with a five-month production break caused by the closure of the MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, where the show was initially made.
There is a site just for it: UFO Series Home Page : “UFO” TV series from 1970!!
There is also a wonderful series trailer on YouTube, which delighted me, after –what, 40 years??
Plus, all these images, which describe the series incredible, “groovy” costumes of the age!
Super Punch: Vintage TV: “UFO Series” had incredibly groovy costumes
Super Punch: Vintage TV: “UFO Series” had incredibly groovy costumes
Unbelievable locations and toy space stations…
Gerry Anderson RIP (1929 – 2012) – BuzzDixon.com
And purple-haired girls.
I also loved the main guy, and his yellow hair (the actor Ed Bishop).
UFO (TV series) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And I loved the unit for which they all worked:
a secret organisation called SHADO, the Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defence Organisation, is established. Operating under the cover (as well as under the premises) of the Harlington-Straker Studios movie studio in England, SHADO is headed by Commander Edward Straker (Ed Bishop), a former United States Air Force colonel and astronaut, who poses as the studio’s chief executive.
Last, I think YouTube has almost all the episodes. Enjoy, and thank the Open Web!
