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	<description>rambling words, fragments, disasters and situations</description>
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		<title>In the Backroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Eno / John Cale, &#8220;In the Backroom&#8221;, from the 1990 album Wrong Way Up:
When Señoritas walk at night,
Habañeros on the move,
It&#8217;s music to their ears in the backroom.
If there&#8217;s money to be made,
And it&#8217;s a hundred in the shade and in the backroom,
She&#8217;s sentimental like the last
Of the foreigners running past her to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2010/01/in-the-backroom/</link>
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		<title>Soft Monuments</title>
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		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/12/soft-monuments/</link>
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		<title>Thinking about things that other people will not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful thought from Boris Vian, quoted in A half-century homage to France&#8217;s master-prankster, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the author / jazz musician / artist&#8217;s death:
[Vian's] heightened sense of the absurd reached its apotheosis when he joined the Collège de pataphysique, a prestigious circle of French writers and academics studying pataphysics, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/12/thinking-about-things-that-other-people-will-not/</link>
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		<title>Possessions turn money into problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Eno: &#8220;possessions are a way of turning money into problems.&#8221; From a New York Times editorial, Five Scenes, One Theme: A True if Unlikely Story, by Bono, November 14, 2009.
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		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/11/possessions-turn-money-into-problems/</link>
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		<title>Turning dada into data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to science to transform dada into data. A new study suggests that the experience of nonsense, &#8220;may prime the brain to sense patterns it would otherwise miss &#8212; in mathematical equations, in language, in the world at large,&#8221; according to a recent article in the New York Times, How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect.

The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/10/turning-dada-into-data/</link>
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		<title>A theory about theory and practice, put into practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
&#8211; Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut (1953-1994), computer scientist and educator. This has also been attributed to Yogi Berra.
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		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/02/a-theory-about-theory-and-practice-put-into-practice/</link>
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		<title>How to Build a Universe That Doesn&#8217;t Fall Apart Two Days Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just stumbled upon a great essay by Philip K. Dick, written in 1978, a few years before he die: How to Build a Universe That Doesn&#8217;t Fall Apart Two Days Later. It is longish, but an entertaining read. Here are some excerpts:
It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/01/how-to-build-a-universe-that-doesnt-fall-apart-two-days-later/</link>
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		<title>Pace yourself the air is freezing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early afternoon yesterday, before the news broke about the plane ditching into the frigid Hudson river, I made this larger drawing from a chunk of words I first entered in the small book on Jan 7th (click the pic for a larger version):

Is it megalomaniacal of me to think that I might be God, controlling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/01/pace-yourself-the-air-is-freezing/</link>
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		<title>The perfect ditching of US Airways 1549</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a feat of amazing piloting by heroic captain Chesley B. &#8220;Sully&#8221; Sullenberger III, All 155 Escape Jet&#8217;s Plunge Into Hudson after a flock of geese take out both engines of the Airbus A320.
Here&#8217;s a great cell phone photo snapped moments after the jet hit the drink by a tourist who was Twittering away at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/01/the-perfect-ditching-of-us-airways-1549/</link>
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		<title>Mumbai terrorist attacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More evidence that the world has gone crazy, in the form of a major, seven-site coordinated terrorist attack on Mumbai, India. Here is the five-star Taj Mahal Hotel on fire, from CNN.com:

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		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/11/mumbai-terrorist-attacks/</link>
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		<title>Linux boot sequence, visualized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Super geeky, but a beautiful image &#8212; click on it for a larger version:

Image created by Perry Hung, who explains:
This is a visualization I made for funsies of a linux boot sequence where each function is a node and each edge represents a function call, direct branch, or indirect branch. Nodes are laid out using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/11/linux-boot-sequence-visualized/</link>
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		<title>Studio view &#8212; new work in progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a funky phone cam view looking back from the front of the studio of some new work in progress (click to enlarge):

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		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/09/studio-view-new-work-in-progress/</link>
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		<title>Russian smokestack implosion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great shot from English Russia (click the pic to enlarge):

Says English Russia, which posted a series of pictures and a video of this smokestack collapse:
After the Soviet Era too much of objects stay abandoned in Russia and with the modern rise of development of new business and residential areas more and more are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/09/russian-smokestack-implosion/</link>
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		<title>Newsmash: September 18, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for another edition of Newsmash, a mashup of headlines taken from CNN.com over the last 24 hours. For added fun, guess which of the headlines below was NOT altered in any way, but appears just as it did on CNN.com (*answer following):
Amish invade Florida town
Baby squirrel to help count California rats
Best dressed sheriff loves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/09/newsmash-september-18-2008/</link>
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		<title>Ike Wavewall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ike Wavewall, a future persona of mine. Currently the title of this great image of Hurricane Ike making his presence felt on along the Texas coast. Ike has already innundated Galveston Island. From CNN.com: Sea floods Texas island; get out or &#8216;certain death&#8217;. I don&#8217;t recall ever hearing a warning as definitively dire as this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/09/ike-wavewall/</link>
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		<title>Physicists make the best sculptors: The Large Helical Device</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want more proof that physicists are the best sculptors working today, beyond the Large Hadron Collider about to come online in Switzerland, look no further than the Large Helical Device Project in Japan &#8212; click the pic to see a larger version:

Whatever this thing does, it does it beautifully.
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		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/09/physicists-make-the-best-sculptors-the-large-helical-device/</link>
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