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Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. Happy future
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What is philosophy but an anxious hope to do a systematic account of
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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its
full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the
production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.
You are the music while the music lasts. 13-12-2003 02:45
The Ninth Symphony
The Ninth Symphony is the last work, that Mahler has finished.
Like „Das Lied von der Erde", Mahler's Ninth Symphony endeavors to obtain
a new independence of the several voices, which is reflected in the
instrumentation and causes an broken, ascetic orchestral sound.
The first movement starts with a basic motif from „Das Lied von der Erde".
A multitude of passages of previous works is worked up in the symphony
(for instance themes from the fourth movement of the Third Symphony, the
second movement of the Fifth, the first lied of „Kindertotenlieder")
numerous quotations or reminiscences of motifs by Beethoven and Bruckner
do also appear.
In the sketch of the partition, there are informative autographic entries,
which show clearly that Mahler associates memories and farewell thoughts
with this work. In the first movement, he noted the exclamations: „O
youth! Vanished! O love! Scattered!" and „Farewell! Farewell!" 11-12-2003 21:08
The Eighth Symphony
The Eight Symphony , also called „Die Symphonie der Tausend", reckons with
four-part double choir, boys' choir eight solo voices and full orchestra.
After having finished the composition, he wrote: „... It is the greatest
thing that I have ever made. And so peculiar in content and form, that I
can't write about it. Imagine, that the universe begins to sound. No more
human voices, but planets and suns are revolving."
The first part is based on the hymn „Veni creator spiritus" by archbishop
Hrabanus Maurus of Mainz (around 780-856). In the second part he set the
final scene from Goethe's Faust II to music.
The considered the Eight as his principal work, his message to mankind. 10-12-2003 19:37
The Seventh Symphony
The Seventh brings the liberation from the mental agony of the Sixth
Symphony. Here, no struggles were fought out, but contrasts were compares
all of the sudden.
Also for this symphony Mahler demands again some unusual instruments:
tenor horn (a kind of „bugle"), mandolin and guitar and even, in addition
to the percussion section including kettledrums, drums and triangle, a
tam-tam (a flat gong instrument), a tambourine and herd bells - he used
them already in the Sixth.
09-12-2003 23:58
The Sixth Symphony
The programmatic content of this symphony can be described as the struggle
for existence of the wanting, creative man against the inexorability of
destiny, which ends catastrophically with the undoing of the hero. Among
all of Mahler's symphonies, the Sixth is the only, that shows no way out
and finishes in a gloomy minor key.
The orchestration outnumbers even the instrumentation of the fifth, but
Mahler arranged the sound effects more economically. As characteristic
sound symbols he uses herd bells and hammers: According to his own
statement, the herd bells are the last tone that sounds from earth to a
lonely person in farthest height, a symbol of total loneliness. The sound
effect of the hammer stands for the blows, which brake finally the will.
The weighing down effect of destiny is represented by a recurrent motif
symbol, the sudden change from A major to A minor triad.
According to Mahler's wife Alma, the second passionate theme is supposed
to reflect Alma's position in Mahler's life.
08-12-2003 20:36
The Fifth Symphony
The first movement „Trauermarsch" - funeral march - (With measured steps.
Severe. Like a conduct) is thematically and formally an integral part of
the second. The powerful scherzo, which Mahler considered to be the most
important movement of the symphony, was followed by an „Adagietto" for
harp and strings, Mahler's certainly most popular symphonic movement.
According to Wilhelm Mengelberg, this music represents Mahler's
declaration of love to Alma Schindler, he met in November 1901 and married
in March 1902. For the final movement, Mahler chose for the first time a
rondo form. He will deal with it again in the finale of the Seventh.
For this symphony, Mahler demanded an enormous orchestral apparatus with a
big orchestrated brass choir, which carries the musical action for a long
time. The dominant of the brass sound had disadvantageous consequences for
the distribution of the work. 07-12-2003 21:16
The Fourth Symphony
Initially, the first movement was called „Die Welt als ewige Jetztzeit"
and is so a pendant to the finale. The initial title of the second
movement, „Freund Hein spielt auf", is missing in the partition. It is
replaced by the expression mark „Sehr zufahrend, wie eine Fiedel" -
according to Mahler's own statement, the Death plays here. To give the
macabre dance the appropriate horrible effect, the solo violin is tuned
up.
The Fourth Symphony is often considered to be an cheerful or humorous work
- Mahler had entitled his first drafts „humoresque" at first. He said:
„There is the cheerfulness of a higher, strange world inside, which is for
us horrible", and: „There is a lot of laughing in my Fourth - at the
beginning of the second movement."
06-12 2003 21:24
The Third Symphony
In 1895/96, Mahler composed the symphony in D Minor with alto solo,
women's and boys' choir after words by Friedrich Nietzsche and verses from
Des Knaben Wunderhorn. At that time, Mahler was a very busy conductor at
the municipal theatre of Hamburg and conducted also the subscription
concerts in Hamburg.
As in the second and Fourth Symphony, Mahler used also in this work texts
from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and own previous lieder based on this texts. In
the third movement, the lied „Ablösung im Sommer" is treated as motif. In
the fourth movement, the voice develops in a free recitative (words from
Friedrich Nietzsche's „Also sprach Zarathustra"). The fifth movement
(lasting only four and a half minutes) follows without transition, a
setting to music of the naive-pious „Armer Kinder Bettlerlied" from the
Wunderhorn.
With its six movements and the enormous apparatus composed of solos,
choirs and orchestra, the Third Symphony departs from the usual symphonic
system. Its duration (one and a half hours) is also uncommon.
05-12-2003 23:17
The Second Symphony
For the first movement, he revised a previous work, a symphonic piece
similar to a funeral march, entitled „Totenfeier". Obviously, Mahler
adopted this title from a poem of the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, that he
received translated by his friend Siegfried Lipiner.
A scherzo movement follows an idyllic andante, the symphonic transposition
of the Lied „Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt" (composed in summer
1893), which text from Des Knaben Wunderhorn points the uselessness of all
striving out.
The fourth movement gives practically an answer to the third movement. It
is also based on a Wunderhorn lied: „Urlicht" was probably transposed in
symphonic form by Mahler in summer 1893.
With regard to the music and the content, the whole work is keyed to the
final choir of the fifth movement, to the setting to music of Klopstock's
ode „Aufersteh'n, ja aufersteh'n wirst du". After having finished the
composition, Mahler wrote: „The last movement (partition) of the second
symphony is finished! It is the most important thing that I have ever
made."
04-12-2003 21:22
The First Symphony
Mahler converted the expressed wealth of ideas into programmatic titles of
the movements, but was in the dark about the name of the whole work at
first: Once he talks of a „symphonic poem", once of a „symphonic poem in
two parts", of a „symphony in five movements" or a „symphony in D major",
then of „Titan, a tone poem in symphonic form" or shortly of „Titan" -
under this name the symphony is often performed still today.
With „Titan" Mahler adopted the title of large-scale novel by Jean Paul.
He tried to express the inner attachment to the ideas, which the poet
uttered in his novel through the youth Albano: thoughts about love,
friendship, death, eternity and particularly about the life of the nature.
The new thing about Mahler's work is not external. The orchestration
corresponds to the usual instrumentation for symphonic music at that time.
But new is the latent orientation of the whole work towards the final
movement and the method of tone-symbolic arrangement.
03-12-2003 23:08
Mahler's symphonic music is a symphonic music of the rise and the growing,
to which its power accrues by the variety of the appearances and which
perceives its aim only en route.
Mahler's notes, memorandums and entries in several handwritten sources
document impressively that his symphonic music has to be considered as an
art, where personal, biographical, literary and philosophical concerns
find expression.
Mahler's attitude towards the program music was characterized on the one
hand by an unshakable faith in the „inner" programs, on the other hand by
the awe of communicating them. I am in Mahler-mood ... 02-12-2003 22:38
Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing.
01-12-2003 23:58
December is the month for wishes to be rewarded. 28-11-2003 15:27
When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. 27-11-2003 21:01
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second ... 26-11-2003 19:57
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can
dream it, you can make it so. 23-11-2003 23:14
The notion that I am me, feels like a pebble in my shoe. Maybe I should
take off my shoes - and go to bed. 19-11-2003 18:03
Dialogue cannot create the need to change, but it certainly facilitates
the process of change. 18-11-2003 23:36
A winning smile makes winners of us all. 17-11-2003 18:44
Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to
conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. 16-11-2003 18:39
A grumpy pessimist is a person who believes the light at the end of the
tunnel to be the light of an oncoming train!
15-11-2003 17:45
The Architect: "...the anomaly is systemic, creating fluctuations in even
the most simplistic equations." 12-11-2003 17:42
"Such episodes cause me to feel strange every day." 11-11-2003 19:37
The Clear Cut Future - it came to me today, as a book, from a friend.
Thank you, Stacey! 10-11-2003 19:46
Matrix
Revolutions. Pure
Baudrillard with a Matrix within a Matrix within a Matrix... If I wake up
from a dream, how do I know that I woke up and didn't just dream that I
woke up from a dream? Cookies need loving! 03-11-2003 18:36
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct. 01-01-11 2003 1:41
For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling
reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the
homesick, for they shall come home.
-- Karen Blixen Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet
believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as
her own. 26-10-2003 17:34
Today I am enjoying the luxury of an empty mind. 25-10-2003 21:33
Nobody ... 23-10-2003 17:12
"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting
which is heard but not seen."
-- Leonardo da Vinci Today I saw my favourite Rembrandt.
22-10-2003 12:45
Courage, Love! 20-10-2003 21:45
Riches consist not in the extent of possessions but in the fewness of
wants. 17-10-2003 07:39
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at
in the right way, did not become still more complicated. 15-10-2003 19:21
The best of healers is good cheer. 13-10-2003 19:18
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's
conscience. 12-10-2003 11:13
Politics is the topography of ignorance. 08-10-2003 20:06
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and
desires. 05-10-2003 23:55
Google has become the measure of all things Internet in many ways. As
scary as this is, it allows also for some interesting translations. Douwe
Osinga came up with the idea to let google image search translate poems
into series of images. She has created a quick implementation of this idea
into a windows executable. The program will let you enter a poem or any
other piece of text and will then show a slideshow of images found on
Google. Check it out, download, experiment and comment
Visual Poetry. 01-10-2003 23:16
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a
nightmare. 29-09-2003 22:54
"In delay there lies no plenty."
-- William Shakespeare. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. 26-09-2003 17:33
"A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live
that day."
-- Emily Dickinson
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it ...by way of the
poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader. 25-09-2003 17:35
The chain of memory is resurrection. 22-09-2003 17:45
I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have
my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling. 17-09-2003 21:24
 16-09-2003 18:46
Everything is always impossible before it works. That is what
entrepreneurs are all about: doing what people have told them is
impossible. 15-09-2003 20:03
Dialogue is the oxygen of change. 14-09-2003 19:37
Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new
ideas...Possibilities do not add up. They multiply. 12-09-2003 18:09
Learning organizations may be a tool not just for the evolution of
organizations, but for the evolution of intelligence. 10-09-2003 18:23
Happy Birthday! :)
May all your wishes for your year to come be fulfilled. 09-09-2003 19:57
To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the
world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can
control it, wish to influence its direction.
To be a catalyst is also a bit boring at times ... 08-09-2003 19:12
Thought/quote of today: "Courage is like love; it must have hope to
nourish it."
--Napoleon Bonaparte 02-09-2003 00:08
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. 01-09-2003 01:23
It suddenly strikes me that the common cultural heritage of Europe is
based on humanism and thus including aspects of freedom to travel as part
of this cultural heritage. Or as Lulu Ziegler sang with her beautiful
dark-melancholic chromatic voice:
“I was the last tourist in Europe,
who yielded to the din of battle with fright -
I am the first tourist in Europe,
when she rises from the ashes anew.”
My travel book for Geneva: Night Mail
31-08-2003 16:43
A common core of personal and social abilities has proven to be the key
ingredient in people's success: emotional intelligence. 30-08-2003 16:42
Don't study the idea to death with experts and committees. Get on with it
and see if it works. 29-08-2003 19:41
There are things that music can do that language could never do, that
painting can never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to
the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply
celebrate it.
Just listen to Mahler's 5th. Symphony, part 4. 27-08-2003 22:54
The red planet of Mars has never in 60 000 years been closer to
earth. Reach for it ... because even if you miss you will land somewhere
among the stars!
Exhibition (In) Space. 26-08-2003 17:02
Dreams are the most powerful motivators of all. 25-08-2003 22:23
Go and see the Danish film "Reconstruction." Winner of the Camera D’Or
award in Cannes 2003, "Reconstruction" marks the feature film debut of
Christoffer Boe. "Life has always taken place in a tumult without
apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in
ecstasy and in ecstatic love."
-- Georges Bataille 24-08-2003 21:42
It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.
Or as Winnie the Pooh has it: "Organizing is what you do before you do
something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up." 23-08-2003 16:37
High expectations are the key to everything. 18-08-2003 22:32
If time imposes on us its evolution, place also imposes upon us its
reality. 14-08-2003 12:25
Danish Ministry of Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs
-- Superflex 13-08-2003 11:19
All literature wavers between nature and paradise and loves to mistake one
for the other. 11-08-2003 12:06
"A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have
possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you
pass it on
you are enriched threefold."
- Henry Miller, The Books In My Life (1969) 10-08-2003 23:04
No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let
it settle itself. 05-08-2003 15:12
Join me! 03-08-2003 18:17
'Home' is any four walls that enclose the right person.
This is most likely
to become my new home. 02-08-2003 20:44
A single line is enough as a distinction of the balancing powers between
here and there (Kirstine Roepstorff - 2003)
01-08-2003 15:40
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. 30-07-22:35
The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's
thinking. 27-07-2003 23:06
I am back, I am beat and I am slightly burned!
 19-07-2003 19:47
It is only on a journey one has time completely to one self. I am off ...
18-07-2003 22:44
Pending, pending …
Give me a fixed stand, and I shall rock the world – must have been what
Archimedes thought. 14-07-2003 23:20
PATIENCE, n.
A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. 12-07-2003 13:59
I'll get up tomorrow. 10-07-2003 15:35
I
am not dreaming ... 08-07-2003 14:50
Sometimes just the thought of the nearest future can be overwhelming. 07-07-2003 19:58
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are
so many answers. 06-07-2003 13:10
I wake up and the day feels broken. 05-07-2003 13:43
 03-07-2003 16:59
"Who can be patient in extremes?"
-- William Shakespeare in "Henry VI"
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping
your gears. 02-07-2003 18:21
Achilles absent was Achilles still! 30-06-2003 00:12
"The heart is the only broken instrument that works."
-T.E. Kalem 26-06-03 23:43
G.., I can't wait to get out of town! 24-06-03 2003 17:59
Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of
free-floating brainpower. 23-06-2003 21:12
Style can be an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky.
Style has nothing to do with money. Style never runs scared. It is
self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes
with having proved you can meet life. Have confidence in your style, mon
frêre. 22-06-2003 23:43
Fashion can be bought. Style
one must possess.
What a truly great weekend! 19-06-2003 19:31
If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about
success. 17-06-2003 19:00
Bravo Bang!
Tiréns koffert (in Norwegian) 17-06-2003 10:13
Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like...from this
perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal. 16-06-2003 17:30
 15-06-2003 10:51
Feet ok. Head ok. All systems go. Ready for take off. 14-06-2003 12:45
My feet will never heal again! 12-06-2003 22:21
... difference is not an option. Please change ... 11-06-2003 17:58
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. 10-06-2003 18:44
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it
becomes a reality. 09-06-2003 20:36
Back in the bureaucratic blender ... I've always reckoned a camel is a
horse designed by a committee. 02-06-03 16:31
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. I think I talk too much
- and too loud and too fast ... 01-06-03 15:41
Back in CPH. Today is the first day of summer. Summer makes a silence
after spring. 29-05-03 15:42
Helsinki - it is so good to be back. Herrings and mashed potatoes at The
Sea Horse, coffee and light summer depressions at Moscow Bar, mind blowing
art exhibition at Kiasma. A city of paradoxes and energy, scars and
beauty. 28-05-03 22:02
I am off again ... 27-05-03 23:18
Having just seen 'The Matrix Reloaded' I am intrigued by the way the movie
is riddled with talk of 'control' and 'choice' - two hot topics in
technoscientific discourse. It is interesting to see these de-constructed
in the movie; can there be choice if the options are not infinite? Is
there choice when biology compels us to react to some situations in a very
particular way?
But, what is most amazing about 'The Matrix Reloaded' is its rhythm, the
non-stop speed employed throughout the movie. The new matrix is a film
that feels like a videogame. It has the aesthetics of a game, but more
than
that, it tells the story as if it were just that, a videogame. It does not
try to imitate reality but to create a different reality where even the
most ludicrous plot twists are ... appropriate. It is multi-folded and
dynamic, often incomprehensible, but nonetheless compelling. It makes the
spectator feel part of the game itself, as if it was you who was kicking
and punching, or driving the high-speed car.
'The Matrix Reloaded' is one of the best examples I've seen of the
application of a 'new medium' narrative style to a 'traditional' medium.
In that sense it is the perfect counter-example to Marshall McLuhan's 'the
content of a new medium is an old medium'.
26-05-03 17:23
Furious Angels ... 22-05-03 17:14
I once read that debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. I think
it is true. In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness
more than knowledge. Wordplay is perfect when it effects its purpose
with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the
coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are
roused. 21-05-03 22:30
Aki Kaurismâki: The Man Without a Past
Main impression: All too often
in contemporary society, aesthetics is politics
as decor. 20-05-03 21:49
Whenever you rationalize away a human being you are diminishing a source
of thought too. A human being is a collection of ideas, and these ideas
take moral precedence over a society. Ideas are patterns of value. 20-05-03 18:09
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. 19-05-03 18:14
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
- cool picture! 15-05-03-20:22
Let your fingers do the walking ...
13-05-03 22:18
I know 100 ways to be a good girl. 12-05-03 18:45
Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital
property of life. Or - as a famous rap musician has it: "Common talk
deserves a walk, the situation's changed/
everything said from now on has to be rearranged." 11-05-03 17:15
Sunday, Springtime & Satie. 09-05-03 07:35
To safely communicate, one must realize that we are all different in the
way we perceive each other and use this understanding as a guide to our
communication. In that sense communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.
Not to ask is not to be denied, and nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.
08-05-03 17:52
- found it! 07-05-03 18:23
But where is Tallinn? 06-05-03 21:45
"Travelling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and
losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less
than what we hoped for."
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Spirit of place! It is for this we travel,
to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel,
that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own
accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. 05-05-2003 18:06
"If - as Kant says - all our knowledge falls within the bounds of possible
experience, one have to engage in impossible experience in order to become
wiser.
Do and dare the unexpected! Plunge!
J 04-05-2003 10:43
"Laughter is an affection arising from the sudden transformation of a
strained expectation into nothing." - Kant says ...
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day
in the cheerful voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving
spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or
mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling
spontaneously from the heart. Without egotism and full of feeling,
laughter is the music of life. 03-05-2003 11:03
"The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something
that thought cannot think."
-- Søren Kierkegaard 01-05-2003 17:35
Freedom ... it is not an inconsequential chucking of one's weight about,
it is the disciplined overcoming of self. 28-04-2003 08:43
A short absence is the safest - as Ovid used to say ... Blink, and it is
Wednesday.
J 25-04-2003 20:12
I once read that a cause a day keeps reality away. I should say that a
certain smile each day makes reality linger ... 24-04-2003 18:29
Gates-humour ...
- Scene: The Open Source Cafe.
- Man: Waiter, there's a fly in my soup.
- Waiter: Sir, it's not a bug, it's a feature. 19-04-2003 20:30
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost
superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already
there. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. 18-04-2003 19:24
"Welcome to the desert of the real."
- The Matrix is back, reloaded. 17-04-2003
08:32
Happy Easter!
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Happy Birthday to the Queen: Margrethe 2. Alexandrine Þorhildur Ingrid! 15-04-2003 16:54
What concerns "everyone" can only be resolved by "everyone." 14-04-2003 18:36
Today's:
 09-04-2003 21:33
If you never change your mind, why have one? The brain is wider than the
sky! 08-04-2003 19:48
Be realistic and do the impossible, because if we don't do the impossible,
we face the unthinkable. 07-04-2003 23:31
ACCIDENT, n.
An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws. We
can only ever be, at best, in the twilight world of the controlled
accident. 06-04-2003 16:05
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. 05-04-2003 17:19
"The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race."
-- Piet Hein 03-04-2003 07:52
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here
too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
Baudrillard, is it? 02-04-2003 08:12
Sometimes a thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this
flash is everything! 01-04-2003 17:49
April, enchanted April ... it is snowing in Oslo! 31-03-2003 17:31
"You know the world is going crazy when:
the best rapper is a white guy,
the best golfer is a black guy,
the Swiss team won the America's Cup,
France is accusing the US of arrogance,
and Germany doesn't want to go to war!" And you know this is
true love. 29-03-2003 09:36
"I believe there are 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,
555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,
076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of
electrons."
-- Arthur Eddington
It is important to believe in something! 28-03-2003 16:28
So, this is spring with its annual message of resurrection:
the stork is
back in Denmark! 27-03-2003 21:43
What is the use of running when we are on the wrong? 25-03-2003 16:57
Sometimes, it seems, logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. 24-03-2003 17:34
Travelling means being in between ... It often seems that it is only on a
journey one has time completely to oneself. 23-03-2003 22:21
French TV-news shows pictures of dead and wounded civilians in
Iraq. CNN International proudly shows their so-called 'embedded reporters'
... By the way:
22-03-2003 00:36
US began what they call their "shock and awe" campaign tonight - all
covered by smiling TV-hosts who seem to enjoy the whole thing. This war is
about vanity! "The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be
acquired with difficulty."
-- C. S. Peirce
21-03-2003 07:47
"In this life
to die
has never been hard.
To make new life
’s more difficult
by far."
Vladimir Mayakovsky, To Sergey Esenin (1926)
20-03-2003 07:02
That life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of
the Universe, seems to be the rule the American (and the Danish!)
government live by these months … The first victim of any war is
decency: No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it. 19-03-2003 13:54
Kevin Sites weblog -
reporting directly from Iraq. 18-03-2003
23:45
What a bold life.
What disturbing
art.
What a romantizing
movie. 15-03-2003 23:53
Sometimes you can only wonder:
3 iguanas and a white rabbit ... 13-03-2003 07:02
Home is where the heart is. 12-03-2003 17:52
Impression of today.
 10-03-2003 18:41
World of Ends
What the Internet Is and
How to Stop Mistaking It
for Something Else. 09-03-2003 20:54
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And
scratch where it itches. 05-03-2003 21:50
Just in case you have ever wondered:
Where do seedless watermelons come from?
... the anarchistic library of internet generously provides answers for
... everything. 05-03-2003 18:06
With a thought of "The Hours" (which made a rather
poignant impression on me) it seems the heresy of one age becomes
the orthodoxy of the next. I will spend the weekend re-reading Mrs.
Dalloway. 04-03-2003 21:43
Do yourself - and perhaps your partner - a favour: go and see Stephen
Daldry's "The
Hours." Based on
Michael
Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film interweaves the
stories of three women - a book editor in New York (Meryl Streep), a young
mother in California (Julianne Moore) and author Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) writing
her perhaps best novel ever: "Mrs. Dalloway".
Short introduction to "Mrs.
Dalloway" - in Danish. 03-03-2003 19:53
030303 - what an extraordinary date ...
02-03-2003 10:58
Bon voyage, my friend. Take care! 01-03-2003 11:44
In a far away place exists a pocket of a world where tiny
pixel-creatures draw out their inexplicably troubled lives. Artwork by Daniel Bogan:
The cold waste of space is a lonely place, devoid of contact with the
human race. Luckily for Carter the orbit scout, he's sixty percent robot. 28-02-2003 16:42
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are you receiving me?
27-02-2003 19:21
The world is not what I think, but what I live through. 26-02-2003 22:50
Caring for your introvert.
- It is good to be recognized! 26-02-2003 18:39
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping
your gears. Sorry for the silence. 27-01-2003 18:14
A most beautiful text-visualization of
Shakespeare's Hamlet. 26-01-2003 19:41
Brilliant cover on the Bush-story.
21-01-2003 09:37
Phrases like 'cutting edge' and 'bleeder' suddenly have a whole new
meaning! This morning I miss ½ cm of my left index finger ...
Legendary hacker to get unleashed and online.
CNN technology Imagine the size of his Inbox if it is true that. he
hasn't been online in 8 years (but I find that very hard to believe!) 20-01-2003 17:36
Expressing your protest against the US going to war can be done in various
ways.
This is cute! 19-01-2003 19:52
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I
was born at a very early age.
-- Groucho Marx 16-01-2003 17:43
Do read The Times:
"The United States of America has gone mad"
- by John le Carré 14-01-2003 16:34
What would
Jesus drive? 13-01-2003 17:42
Her beauty is like silence in a cup of water. 13-01-2003 07:33
"The Internet is like the Titanic. It is an instrument which performs
extraordinarily well but which contains its own catastrophe."
-- Paul Virilio 12-01-2003 17:33
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change ... 09-01-2003 17:42
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. 06-01-2003 18:07
This site is deliberately designed to be a smack in the face of
Jakob Nielsen, just
as it takes pride in not abiding one single rule of good
Feng
Shui webdesign (pronounced fung shway)! 05-01-2003 16:56
Killing Gutenberg! 05-01-2003 12:40
2003 is the 30th anniversary of the first drafts of the paper "A Protocol
for Packet Network Intercommunication" by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn. Jan 1
2003 is also the 20th anniversary of the target date (Jan 1 1983) for the
cutover from the ARPANET protocol NCP to the Internet protocol suite
TCP/IP. There should be celebration of these significant events in the
development of the Internet.
Happy Birthday, Dear Internet! 04-01-2003 18:44
Be still indebted to somebody or other, that there may be somebody always
to pray for you. 03-01-2003 23:31
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