Athanasius Kircher’s handy diagram of the names of God
Florian Cramer’s Words Made Flesh is the tastiest thing I’ve found online all year. Pick a paragraph for nonstop fun with Pythagoras, Aleister Crowley, Catalan monks, proteic poetry, La Monte Young, Russian fairy tales, pataphysics, permutation tables and Borges. And computers.
Monthly Archives: November 2006
This Is Your Brain on Romanticist Combinatorics
November 29 06
Dial-a-Joke with Steve Wozniak
November 20 06
Steve Wozniak with David Lee Roth: The Metal Years.
Q: What did Steve Wozniak say to the Pope?
A: “This is Henry Kissinger calling on behalf of President Richard Nixon at the summit in Moscow.”
Read more from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s appearance at the 92nd Street Y last night. He’s not as quotable as Gore Vidal but [...]
Scribbling Furiously at the 92nd Street Y
November 13 06
Results of recent note-taking at 92Y events:
Gore Vidal: “The last time I sat on this stage, I was afflicted by a fly. An awful fly that kept buzzing around my head as I spoke [...] After a while, I realized the fly was the late Truman Capote.”
Gary Panter: “Paul [Reuben, aka Pee Wee Herman] and [...]
The Rhode Island Russian
November 8 06
I’ll let my brother take the credit for the invention of this drink, even though it was consumed en masse in NEW YORK last winter. Here’s to creative drinking and PR savvy, or as our dad puts it, “Irish bullshitting.”