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Morning coffee

The Minotaur starts another day in the labyrinth.

]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:15:45 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/grickle/6026420074/ Steganography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The word steganography is of Greek origin and means "concealed writing" from the Greek words steganos (στεγανός) meaning "covered or protected", and graphein (γράφειν) meaning "to write". The first recorded use of the term was in 1499 by Johannes Trithemius in his Steganographia, a treatise on cryptography and steganography disguised as a book on magic. Generally, messages will appear to be something else: images,… ]]> Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:50:03 -0700 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography The Saturnine Age and the Modern Genius http://www.curatormagazine.com/michaeltoscano/the-saturnine-age-and-the-modern-genius/ When a modern person thinks of artistic genius, they imagine an individual. Some have quantified genius by standardized exams – for example, the I.Q. test – but most know a genius by his work. The Brothers Karamazov is proof that Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a genius. Be it Shakespeare, Mozart, or Michelangelo, the man of genius is epoch-making because his work acutely affects history and seems to redefine our basic categories of human potential.

Yet in our common imagination, the artistic genius is not only an individual of excellent output, but an individual of a certain disposition. The… ]]> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:40:00 -0700 http://www.curatormagazine.com/michaeltoscano/the-saturnine-age-and-the-modern-genius/ Petrichor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian... ]]> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:36:18 -0700 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor Petrichor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian researchers, Bear and Thomas, for an article in the journal Nature.[1] In the article, the authors describe how the smell derives from an oil exuded by certain plants during dry periods, whereupon it is adsorbed by clay-based soils and rocks. During rain, the oil is released into the air along with another compound, geosmin, producing… ]]> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:36:00 -0700 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/362-greek-to-me-mapping-mutual-incomprehension/ “When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like Chinese’. I’ve been told the Korean equivalent is ’sounds like Hebrew’,” says Yuval Pinter (here on the excellent Languagelog). Which begs the question: “Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph?” Well apparently there has, even if only perfunctorily, and the result is this cartogram. ]]> Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:42:00 -0700 http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/362-greek-to-me-mapping-mutual-incomprehension/