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Aidan Kelly on Truth

By Dibson on 2009 November 27

Knowing that all truths are meerly metaphors is perhaps the greatest advantage you can have at this point in history. Thinking that you know the “Whole Truth” keeps you from learning anything more; hence you stagnate; hence you die. But knowing that every thruth is merely a metaphor, merely a tool, leaves you [...]

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Bushwick Book Club in The New Yorker

By Dibson on 2009 November 26

There’s a nice Bushwick Book Club mention in the New Yorker. It’s coming up Tuesday December 1st at Goodbye Blue Monday.
Here’s what the New Yorker said:

Books inspire many things: movies, plays, religions, and even political platforms. Less frequently, they inspire songs (Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights,” Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit”). For the past year, the [...]

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Sierpinski’s Carpet Animation

Sierpinski’s Carpet Animation

By Dibson on 2009 November 19

A few weeks ago I wrote a little script (code below the fold) to generate the frames of the following animation. It’s an animation of different iterations of Sierpinski’s Carpet.
To generate the carpet, take a square. Divide it into nine squares (3×3) and remove the center one. Then, for each of the [...]

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