From this morning's news, a cultural icon —
From November 18, 2015, four icons —
— the three favicons above, and the following:
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Friday, November 20, 2015
Yogi’s Maxim
"When you come to a nexus in the time flow…."
See as well the recent post Tab Icons from the Clearing —
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Looney Tune
For the late psychopharmacologist Joel Elkes and
the late songwriter P. F. Sloan —
" Inspired by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
and other events, he wrote 'Eve of Destruction.'
He later said, 'I was arguing with this voice that seemed to
know the future of the world.' "
— Terence McArdle in last night's online Washington Post
See also Tuesday's posts Tab Icons from the Clearing —
— and, later, Meditation on an Icon:
The above image may be viewed
as a midrash on a picture by
the late Dr. Elkes —
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Tab Icons from the Clearing
"Bostrom has a reinvented man’s sense of lost time.
An only child, he grew up—as Niklas Boström—in
Helsingborg, on the southern coast of Sweden.
Like many exceptionally bright children, he hated
school, and as a teen-ager he developed a listless,
romantic persona. In 1989, he wandered into a library
and stumbled onto an anthology of nineteenth-century
German philosophy, containing works by Nietzsche
and Schopenhauer. He read it in a nearby forest, in
a clearing that he often visited to think and to write
poetry, and experienced a euphoric insight into the
possibilities of learning and achievement. 'It’s hard to
convey in words what that was like,' Bostrom told me…."
— Raffi Khatchadourian
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Web Links:
Spidey Goes to Church
More realistically…
- "Nick Bostrom … is a Swedish philosopher at
St. Cross College, University of Oxford…." - "The early location of St Cross was on a site in
St Cross Road, immediately south of St Cross Church." - "The church building is located on St Cross Road
just south of Holywell Manor." - "Balliol College has had a presence in the area since
the purchase by Benjamin Jowett, the Master, in the 1870s
of the open area which is the Balliol sports ground
'The Master's Field.' " - Leaving Wikipedia, we find a Balliol field at Log24:
- A different view of the same field, from 1950—
. - A view from 1974, thanks to J. J. Seidel —
- Yesterday's Analogies.
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For George Steiner…
… In gratitude for his book Real Presences—
A related shell game:
Ad for a talk at Harvard by Nick Bostrom in April 2010—
Click ad for background on the April 10 , 2010, symposium.
See also Bostrom on the The Simulation Argument
and the Log24 April 12, 2010, Shell Game post above.
Note the black diamond logo of Bostrom's Oxford institute.
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