Beautiful Mutants
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Happy mutants?
Happy mutants?
09/03/2004 04:34 AM
David Pescovitz:
Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
is a book about the genetics behind human oddities. It's the companion
to a Channel 4 documentary of the same title that aired this summer.
The author,
Armand Marie Leroi,
is a biologist and lecturer at Imperial College London. From a review
in The Guardian a few months back:
"There
are three things that lift this book above mere exploitation: the
seriousness of Leroi's scientific investigations; the humane concern
he manifests for the suffering other; and the sensitivity of his
aesthetic appreciation of the wonders of nature. "Beautiful" is a term
frequently used to describe some bottled monster. This aesthetic
appreciation extends to previous writers on the subject. He describes
an account of the progress of a deer embryo by the 17th-century
natural philosopher William Harvey (more famous for his discovery of
the circulation of the blood) as "one of the loveliest descriptions of
a mammalian foetus ever written".
I'll be in the UK next week and I'm definitely going to pick up a
copy!
Link
Mothersbaugh's happy mutants
Mothersbaugh's happy mutants
07/13/2004 01:39 PM
Mark
"Devo" Mothersbaugh has created a stunningly surreal series of
manipulated antique photographs. Many of them are displayed in vintage
daguerrotype frames. From the artist's statement:
"It was in the early 1900's that Rorschach and other
psychiatrists developed hunches regarding symmetry and the internal
workings of man. Humans, great pretenders to bi-lateral symmetry, are
in actuality, closer to potatoes in their lack of precise symmetry. A
close look reveals what is truly inside the people around
us."
Mothersbaugh's Beautiful Mutants collection is currently touring
galleries around the United States.
LinkMydoom mutants mount new attacks
Mydoom mutants mount new attacks
02/10/2004 07:17 AMThe Mydoom virus has spawned two new variants, which are seeking to
cash in on the success of the original.
MyDoom Ends but Open Ports Attracting
Mutants
MyDoom Ends but Open Ports Attracting
Mutants
02/12/2004 12:52 PMMicrosoft releases virus removal tool but unpatched drone machines are
still a major threat.
big beautiful
big beautiful
06/24/2004 01:22 AMEvery other Wednesday night is D&D night at my friend Cal's, but I
couldn't go tonight . . . I wanted -- no, that's not right. I
needed -- to stay home and be a dad.
Read the entire entry @ WWdN!"It's beautiful "
"It's beautiful "
06/05/2005 11:45 PMbeautiful day
beautiful day
04/29/2004 07:18 PMI just got off the phone with Anne. Kris got the results of her biopsy
just now . . . and
IT CAME BACK CANCER-FREE!! The chemo and
radiation have done their thing, and she's safe for at least two
years!
Small is Still Beautiful
Small is Still Beautiful
05/08/2004 01:20 PMDDJ May 8 2004 5:05PM GMT
The scenery is here, wish you were
beautiful
The scenery is here, wish you were
beautiful
04/09/2004 04:12 PM
I'm a big fan of Martin Parr
and I was lucky enough to get a boxed copy of his retros
pective postcards last year. Parr is an avid collector of
postcards himself and has published several collections of them which
have been reissued in paperback recently: Boring
Postcards USA, Boring
Postcards and the new Bliss
: Postcards of Couples and Families collected by Martin
Parr.
I have a small collection of postcards I've found over the years and
wonder what people will make of them in 50 years. The postcard is one
of the most underappreciated art forms, especially nowadays with email
and 'e-cards' making people who take pen to paper and lick a postage
stamp a rare breed. Postcards of hotels and
motels and restaurants and
diners are fascinating in their composition, their optimism and
the message they attempt to convey to the present as well as to the
future. And they are fun to collect as well as being an easily
concealed addiction that doesn't require frequent dusting. American Postcard Art
has quite a nice assortment of postcards to browse if not all that
unusual or ecclectic. I've also been an active participant in the postcards for mom project
since I think it's a pretty fun idea to have people from all around
the world send your mother postcards with recipes and comics and
whatnot on them. I'd love to see the collection put up online after
they decide to end the project.
A fabulous book recently published by Nemo, Tervei
siä Kaikille! Postikortteja Suomesta, is filled with wacky
and weird technicolour postcards from all around Finland from the
1960s through the late 1990s. [I will note here that the book is only
12euro down at the main post office shop while they last.] I'm hopeful
that there might be a forthcoming volume of older cards as well. There
are no drive through trees, no carhenge, no jackalope or world's most
giant pecan postcards but that can always be fixed. There are,
however, plenty of reindeer as you head north. Finland would be a
perfect place for the world's largest reindeer or most gigantic bit of
salmiakki. What about a Rye Palace fashioned after the legendary Corn
Palace?! :) Build it and the postcards will come. I've been putting
off a visit to the Korttien
Talo [house of cards/postcard museum] up in Hämeenlinna, a city
about 50 miles north of Helsinki, until the weather warms up a wee bit
more and the castle and other attractions have longer opening hours.
Beautiful saturation
Beautiful saturation
08/10/2004 08:03 PM
The stunning photography of Yann Bertrand.
A Beautiful New Sunrise
A Beautiful New Sunrise
08/04/2004 11:36 AMThe senior-living provider is nearing the end of a major
transformation.
Beautiful Agony
Beautiful Agony
05/11/2004 12:08 PM
facettes de la petite mort
No nudity, but not safe for work. I love it when eroticism is found
where you might not expect it. Like, simple facial expression, for
example.
Brown Is Beautiful
Brown Is Beautiful
07/22/2004 04:46 PMUPS sends current shareholders a gift, but others may not want to pay
the postage.
Beautiful, Not Boring
Beautiful, Not Boring
07/09/2004 11:46 AMLook for solid performers that lack a natural buying constituency.
Why Small Is Beautiful
Why Small Is Beautiful
06/03/2004 06:36 PMThe new 12-inch PowerBooks have enough improvements -- extra
hard-drive capacity, faster processors, Airport and Bluetooth as
standard and faster DVD burning in the top model, to justify
upgrading.
By Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald (via MyAppleMenu)
A Beautiful Fraud
A Beautiful Fraud
06/04/2004 03:25 PMSymbol Technologies' execs have a good day. Go figure.
Boring Is Beautiful
Boring Is Beautiful
06/25/2004 01:52 PMThere's nothing dull about conservative management and hefty
dividends.
Horrifying, Beautiful
Horrifying, Beautiful
03/08/2004 11:19 PMVia Jeremy Hedley’s excellent
Antipixel, a pointer to the
World Press Photo 2003
prizewinners. This has some of the most beautiful pictures you will
ever see, but don’t go there if you’re feeling fragile or
depressed; this is
news photography, and news is usually all
about pain and death and tragedy. In particular, if you have a little
boy that you love, be careful; 2003 was a year that terrible things
happened to little boys and photographers were there. For more cheer,
skip down to
the nature category, especially the lake-view of
Chicago; really almost beyond belief.
Beautiful bastard
Beautiful bastard
05/20/2004 08:42 AMYou know him as that red-faced rageoholic or the drippingly sarcastic
dad. But you probably don't know Christopher McDonald's name, despite
the dozens of movies he's stolen from bigger stars.
Beautiful lawyer needs help...
Beautiful lawyer needs help...
01/05/2003 02:02 AMRay sent me a link to this craigslist posting. The situation is
simple. I am an intellectual property lawyer, 27, 5'8", slim, blue
eyes, of an Irish/Italian origins. This morning I realized that my
boyfriend of two years is having...
The Bold & Beautiful
The Bold & Beautiful
04/01/2005 02:15 PMComputer Power User Apr 1 2005 6:41PM GMT
What To Do With That Beautiful Screen...
What To Do With That Beautiful Screen...
11/18/2003 03:17 PMA big, beautiful LCD monitor
A big, beautiful LCD monitor
12/07/2003 09:46 PMZDNet Dec 7 2003 9:15PM ET
A few beautiful images...
A few beautiful images...
03/06/2004 01:55 AMA few beautiful images from daily dose of imagery:
Beautiful numbers
Beautiful numbers
02/01/2005 09:33 PM I love pretty numbers. I get excited when I see a pretty license
plate. Or when the time is 16:32. Or when my car has driven 36912
miles. Or when I can get my car to drive at a speed that makes the
speedometer and the tachometer be at the same place in the dial. I
remember phone numbers and pin codes via the relationship between the
numbers. And so on. This morning I had 512 messages marked unread...
Not my beautiful PowerPoint
Not my beautiful PowerPoint
12/29/2003 09:16 PMUSA Today Dec 29 2003 8:03PM ET
A beautiful day in the neighborhood
A beautiful day in the neighborhood
01/23/2004 02:22 PM A Requiem for
Mr.
Rogers got me thinking about the TV shows that spoke to me as a
child.
Captain
Kangaroo was there and
Mr.
Dressup was always great. But for me, no one surpassed
The Friendly Giant
and "Look up. Look way up!" still makes me feel warm and
safe. I did not have PBS available as a child but my sons did and for
them
Mr. Rogers was a
favorite as was TVO's
Today's
Special with Jeff Hyslop's manikin who came to life each night.
Who spoke to you via TV as a child? Parents, who is speaking to your
children on TV these days?
