The "all-time great actioner" of the above news story is "Hard Boiled,"
a 1992 Hong Kong action film by John Woo. Related art —
Revised version of the
New Yorker cover of 5/21/07
Monday, September 12, 2022
“Hard Boiled” (Action Movie Title, Hong Kong, 1992)
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Wellspring
An online New York Times obituary today
of a scholar who reportedly died on August 1 —
"In a career that took him to Hong Kong and Taiwan,
as well as a succession of Ivy League universities,
Professor Yu often returned to the theme that China’s
long traditions could be a wellspring, not an enemy,
of enlightenment, individual dignity and democracy."
— Chris Buckley
Cf. Hexagram 48 in this journal and some synonyms:
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Eightfold Epiphany
The reported death today at 105 of an admirable war correspondent,
"a perennial fixture at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong,"
suggested a search in this journal for that city.
The search recalled to mind a notable quotation from
a Montreal philosopher —
“… the object sets up a kind of
frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
Charles Taylor, "Epiphanies of Modernism,"
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477)
For some context, see St. Lucia's Day, 2012.
See also Epiphany 2017 —
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Friday, February 14, 2014
Epiphany
“… the object sets up a kind of
frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
Related material —
Star Wars (January 11, 2014),
The Lyche Gate Asterisk , from 10:31 AM ET on May 22, 2010,
the date of Martin Gardner's death —
— and the March 2014 issue of the
Notices of the American Mathematical Society —
See as well Epiphany 2014 (Jan. 6) in this journal and the
March Notices on the Shaw prize —
"Established under the auspices of Run Run Shaw
in November 2002, the prize is managed and
administered by the Shaw Prize Foundation
based in Hong Kong."
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
DNA and a Galois Field
From Ewan Birney's weblog today:
| WEDNESDAY, 23 JANUARY 2013
Using DNA as a digital archive media Today sees the publication in Nature of “Toward practical high-capacity low-maintenance storage of digital information in synthesised DNA,” a paper spearheaded by my colleague Nick Goldman and in which I played a major part, in particular in the germination of the idea. |
Birney appeared in Log24 on Dec. 30, 2012, quoted as follows:
"It is not often anyone will hear the phrase 'Galois field' and 'DNA' together…."
— Birney's weblog on July 3, 2012, "Galois and Sequencing."
Birney's widespread appearance in news articles today about the above Nature publication suggests a review of the "Galois-field"-"DNA" connection.
See, for instance, the following papers:
- Gail Rosen and Jeff Moore. "Investigation of Coding Structure in DNA," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, April 2003. [pdf]
- Gail Rosen. "Finding Near-Periodic DNA Regions using a Finite-Field Framework," 2nd IEEE Genomic Signal Processing Workshop (GENSIPS), Baltimore, MD, May 2004. [pdf]
- Gail Rosen. "Examining Coding Structure and Redundancy in DNA," IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Volume 25, Issue 1, January/February 2006. [pdf]
A Log24 post of Sept. 17, 2012, also mentions the phrases "Galois field" and "DNA" together.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Friday May 22, 2009
Steiner System
New York Times
banner this morning:
Related material from
July 11, 2008:
|
The HSBC Logo Designer — Henry Steiner
Born in Austria and raised in New York, Steiner was educated at Yale under Paul Rand and attended the Sorbonne as a Fulbright Fellow. He is a past President of Alliance Graphique Internationale. Other professional affiliations include the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Chartered Society of Designers, Design Austria, and the New York Art Directors' Club. His Cross-Cultural Design: Communicating in the Global Marketplace was published by Thames and Hudson (1995). |
He is an internationally recognized corporate identity consultant. Based in Hong Kong, his work for clients such as HongkongBank, IBM and Unilever is a major influence in Pacific Rim design.
|
Charles Taylor,
"Epiphanies of Modernism," Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self (Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477):
"… the object sets up
See also Talking of Michelangelo.
|
Related material suggested by
an ad last night on
ABC's Ugly Betty season finale:
Diamond from last night's
Log24 entry, with
four colored pencils from
Diane Robertson Design:
See also
A Four-Color Theorem.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Friday July 11, 2008
|
The HSBC Logo Designer — Henry Steiner
Born in Austria and raised in New York, Steiner was educated at Yale under Paul Rand and attended the Sorbonne as a Fulbright Fellow. He is a past President of Alliance Graphique Internationale. Other professional affiliations include the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Chartered Society of Designers, Design Austria, and the New York Art Directors' Club. His Cross-Cultural Design: Communicating in the Global Marketplace was published by Thames and Hudson (1995). |
Related material
from the past —
from the past —
Charles Taylor,
"… the object sets up
See also Talking of Michelangelo.
|
Related material
from today —
Escape from a
cartoon graveyard:
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Tuesday October 17, 2006
To Measure
the Changes
(continued from
“The Legacy Codes,”
Nov. 5-6, 2003)
From this morning’s
New York Times:
the Changes
(continued from
“The Legacy Codes,”
Nov. 5-6, 2003)
From this morning’s
New York Times:
Rick Friedman for
The New York Times
The New York Times
“The much-honored
mathematician
Shing-Tung Yau“
Numbers
from the
Keystone State
on October 16:
For interpretations
of 621, see 6/21’s
Beijing String and
Go with the Flow.
of 621, see 6/21’s
Beijing String and
Go with the Flow.
For an interpretation
of 596, see Wikipedia,
596 (nuclear test):
“596 is the codename of the
People’s Republic of China’s
first nuclear weapons test,
detonated on
October 16, 1964.”
Related material:
“‘In China he is a movie star,’ said Ronnie Chan, a Hong Kong real estate developer and an old friend…. And last summer Dr. Yau played the part…. He ushered Stephen Hawking into the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square to kick off a meeting of some of the world’s leading physicists on string theory, and beamed as a poem he had written was performed by a music professor on the conference stage. It reads in part:
| Beautiful indeed is the source of truth. To measure the changes of time and space the smartest are nothing.” |
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Saturday, July 1, 2006
Saturday July 1, 2006
Hong Kong Day
See Hong Kong July 1 marches,
Thousands March for Democracy in Hong Kong. and
Hong Kong flags, previous and current.
Related material:
the previous two entries.
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Monday, July 21, 2003
Monday July 21, 2003
For Hemingway’s Birthday:
The Hong Kong
Candidate
“Blair, on his first trip to China in five years, expressed his belief that the strengthened relationship between Britain and China would, beyond any doubt, continue to develop…”
— People’s Daily, Beijing, July 21, 2003
“Now he’s poppin’ the piano just to raise the price of a ticket to the land of the free….”
— “Hong Kong Blues,” sung by Hoagy Carmichael in “To Have and Have Not,” a film based on a Hemingway novel.
“The U.S. government repatriated on Monday 15 migrants from a Cuban government vessel that was taken illegally from Cuba…. The island’s communist government said the ship was hijacked and demanded the return of the occupants and the boat.”
— Reuters, Miami, July 21, 2003, 1:08 PM ET
As a review at Amazon.com notes,
“The movie concerns a brave fishing-boat captain in World War II-era Martinique who aids the French Resistance, battles the Nazis, and gets the girl in the end. The novel concerns a broke fishing-boat captain who agrees to carry contraband between Cuba and Florida in order to feed his wife and daughters. Of the two, the novel is by far the darker, more complex work.”
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