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"One major difference between love and hate appears to be in the fact that large parts of the cerebral cortex – associated with judgement and reasoning – become de-activated during love, whereas only a small area is deactivated in hate."
John Griogair Bell’s Blog
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Oct 31, 2008links for 2008-10-31Oct 30, 2008links for 2008-10-30
Oct 29, 2008Oct 28, 2008Amanda Sledz at Wordstock on Nov 8th at 10:30amA really interesting acquaintance is going to be reading at the Wordstock Festival on Nov 8th at 10:30am:
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Oct 25, 2008brilliant dark
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Oct 24, 2008links for 2008-10-24
Oct 23, 2008Horus fire lamen 5Well, so I just gave up using PS and stuck with AI. That means, the lines are way cleaner, and the completely vector version could be re-sized to anything. I may need to adjust the width of the black lines to be more clear in very small sizes And, here’s a PDF version, to show off resizing. Horus fire lamen 4I tried a couple of things. I pixel bashed a bit. I reduced the size of the head and made the body wider, which actually helps a lot. I went toward more traditionally egyptian colours (a la the SVG at wikipedia) There’s definitely a point where it’s hard to know whether it even works at all or not once I spend too much time on a thing. Horus fire lamen 3And scans of a different look, rotated aspect: And, now seeming way too cartoonish to me, the composite: Horus fire lamen 2Trying a different look, with more of the hybrid form adding arms: And composite, with color: Oct 22, 2008Horus fire lamenStarting from this design suggestion from a friend, Beth:
Initial scan of my sketch Cleaned up fire Cleaned up Horus Elements together with a lamen and colour Oct 21, 2008links for 2008-10-21
Oct 20, 2008Hello, World.Hello, World. This is a silly lame test of publishing a doc from gdocs to my blog. And, this sentence is a test to see if it automatically re-publishes changes. Nope. And, it zaps the title of the post when I manually re-publish. Lame! Will a different API fix the title issue? It does. Switching from MovableType to Meta fixes the title problem, but I notice that the Blogger API has the same problem with the title. So, only the Meta API works. But there’s still some formatting oddness. The post ends up with some extra DIV and BR tags but there’s no P tag and the initial text does not have a DIV of its own. That’s messy. That reminds me a bit of how crappy frontpage and word are at converting to HTML. Gdoc is not as ugly by far as frontpage or word, but the code it is sending to the blog is not great. How about a picture? And, yes, there is an obnoxious picture of me, so that works too. However, what’s going on is that gdocs puts in an image tag into the post that pulls the image remotely from gdocs, so that means anyone that’s got cross-site images turned off, like in Firefox, the images will appear broken. Also, that means that gdocs has to be up and responding for images to appear. Also, the feature that categorizes the post based on which gdoc folder it’s in doesn’t seem to be working. Interestingly, the paragraphs after I inserted the image have different formatting in both gdoc and in the code sent to the blog. The paragraphs after the image have DIV styles, whereas these paragraphs above do not. In gdoc, the paragaph spacing is different before and after the image. Above the picture, paragraphs are DIVs with BR tags. After the image, each paragraph is given the DIV style that was applied to the image. And, other than going in to EDIT > EDIT HTML in gdocs, there appears no way to control this. (That’s a feature of gdoc, and doesn’t have much to do with the blog publishing feature.) The feature where the initial paragraph had crappy formatting appears to be fixed if I add an extra line at the beginning of the document, instead of typing on the first line right off. Originally each of these paragraphs had an extra line between them in gdoc, but that’s not being represented as P tags in the gdoc HTML, so it ends up looking ugly when sent to my blog. Finally, going in to the EDIT HTML, I made direct changes to the code, and gdoc at least seems to preserve my changes, but it kinda sucks to have to go in to the code and edit that for each paragraph. Well, so, it’s interesting and could be useful, but there’s some issues that make the blog posting not ideal for the way that I would use it. For occasional use, and for longer documents, this could be useful for documents that are collaborative or likely to under go many edits (like this very one, for example); especially I like the re-publishing feature which is easier than copy and paste to update a post, for sure. Not quite ready for prime time, I don’t think. Oct 19, 2008links for 2008-10-19
Oct 18, 2008Siren Nation 2008 Festival on Nov 3rd – 9thHere’s something that seems interesting going on in November at various places around town: Siren Nation -:- 2008 Festival.
Among other things, Laura Gibson will be playing at Wonder Ballroom on Saturday and Lisa Papineau is playing on Friday. Playing with Lisa Papineau is a band I’ve only just found out about tonight called Strangers Die Every Day. I ran into the Siren Nation site via Strangers Die Every Day, which appears to be the only local venue they’re playing any time soon. veneeranother fragile Oct 17, 2008Butoh at Disjecta on Oct 17th at 8pmA friend mentioned that they are in a performance with Mizo, Yuko Ota and Death Posture at Disjecta:
Although, it doesn’t appear to be listed on the Disjecta site, I’m assured that it’s happening and it’s only $15 at the door. links for 2008-10-17
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