Monthly Archives: April 2008

SF ebooks, redux

By Somhairle | Published: April 29, 2008

Yet another reason why giving away Free Electronic Books is a really fine idea – the latest one from Tor, Karl Schroeder’s Sun of Suns, arrived last Friday and I finished it in a few hours. It’s really rather good – but if it hadn’t come through that push channel, I’d never have known about [...]

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Presented without comment

By Somhairle | Published: April 27, 2008

And via a friend in the Netherlands, this. (Flash animation, plays music.)

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History of Giant Spheres

By Somhairle | Published: April 27, 2008

Artistic, architectural, archaeological, and downright bloody weird riffs on the theme of the sphere, whether as globe, star-globe, or mysterious lump of rock. (via Whitechapel)

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Major Barbara at the National

By Somhairle | Published: April 22, 2008

Last night, I went to see Shaw’s play Major Barbara at the National Theatre (Wikipedia, Gutenberg) along with Web Cowgirl and a few others. It started fairly badly for me, but then that was due to my taking a while to click with Shaw’s abstractionist speechifying (I kept wondering if Lady Britomart was about to [...]

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"Contemporary art’s obsession with science"

By Somhairle | Published: April 14, 2008

The other day, I went to the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture at the Royal Society. Siân Ede (Arts Director, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) was the lecturer, and it was rather disappointing on the whole. She’s clearly very heavily invested in Big Art, as I suppose you’d expect, and seemed to extend that to Big Science too. Her [...]

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The houses of the sun

By Somhairle | Published: April 7, 2008

The biggest reason I paint is that I truly love working with good, vibrant colours. I had to get some more gold acrylic last week, and found some Daler-Rowney System 3 on offer. I’ve just opened it up, to do some gold detailing on a keyring piece (you know the things, those little snap-together plastic [...]

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Infrequent poetry

By Somhairle | Published: April 2, 2008

I used to write a lot more than I do now – I haven’t been able to do this on a regular basis for quite a few years. So enjoy this one. We understand the world through ink and light;we draw, we see, we draw againas faith becomes our paper, hopeful-bright. Mathematics helps us get [...]

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