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Our Look Back Memorial Day Special: When we were working on the Titanic Transmissions Monograph , spent some time in Jeff Hull's studio, where he had all these great drawings hanging on clothesline. Jacob took pics, I put them in a slide show, filmed that, put music too it, and posted via Blogger. Notes: Across Hull’s studio hanging on a sagging clothesline: drawings on clothespins. . .fluttering Chinese flags in space, like birds on a wire, if you read them, playing a song. He gets up in the morning and holds on to that Plow. The Plow of Paint, Color and Forms. They detonate, like the movie marquees. Moon Travelers! Tossed and driven by an angry sea storm of life raging – They are ink on paper - first think in the morning and often they call out the shape of something to pursue. Sometimes he will pursue a recognizable figure in oil. A hand. The Titanic. Nevertheless, the figure you can verbally grasp swims in an unutterable image pool. Might be looking for you too. There are ...

The Lee Lincoln Scarp shows a fault at the Apollo 17 landing site Hey people, let's do some Moon Herald Travelling! In 2010, planetary geoscientist Thomas Waters and others at the Smithsonian Institutions’  National Air and Space Museum looked at evidence from the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that seemed to suggest visible faults on the surface of the moon were not so ancient - that they were as young as 50 million years old. Waters recently led a study which conjectures that there was much more seismic activity on the Moon then was previously thought. This leads to the tentative conclusion that the Moon is actually somewhat tectonicaly active. Viewed from afar one such young fault looks like a river - get closer it looks like a scar. It is a thrust fault traversing Lee Lincoln Scarp (a ravine named as some ode to Civil War equivalency?) where Apollo 17 set down. The author of a NYTimes reports writes:  ''The moon’s thrust faults are a sign that the whole or...

The horses crossed the finish line with Maximum Security capturing a victory. But within a few minutes came great uncertainty. This was a Kentucky Derby like no other. After 20-plus minutes of scrutiny the judges dq'd the apparent victor, and draped Country Home with the red roses. The dreams of Luis Saez and Jason Servis gave way to those of Flavian Prat and Bill Mott. What sport! Here is my writeup  .

Compose your own Bach-inspired tunes with the first ever AI-powered #GoogleDoodle ! 🎼 #BachDoodle https://t.co/Sw5U8k5gXf — Jack Vaughan at TT (@JackVaughanatTT) March 23, 2019 The composition (up above) is a flawed notation based on the tune whistled (directly above). Some of it comes to me genetically from my grandfather by way of my father.

In 2012, Lawrence Ferlinghetti published "Time of Useful Consciousness" which is a remarkable tour de force. Yes, it owes homage to Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders (and Walt Whitman and Matthew Arnold and a few others) but this quick history of America adapts what's in the air artfully, like a blues. It might be a career capper, but, on the other hand, 90-plus-year-old L.F. may keep on keeping on. Here on Memorial Day 2013 I read a small portion. It follows a riff on Jack Powers, a major Boston poet and nice poet mentor and guy in the last half of the 20th century (and somewhat thereafter). Ferlingetti resets some earlier poems in new context, but it all flows. He riffs on "Jacks" quite a bit, which is okay with me. - Jack Vaughan

Writer James Burke has studied how technologies gain traction. His bellwether 1978 TV show (and book), " Connections ," takes one on a fantastic voyage that connects such diverse events as the birth of the Jacquard loom and the computer punch card. Here are some of Burke's rules of innovation. Innovation occurs as the result of deliberate attempts to develop it. The attempt to find one thing leads to the discovery of another. Unrelated developments have a decisive effect on the main event Motives, such as war and religion, may also act as major stimulant to innovation. Accident and unforeseen circumstances play a role innovation Physical and climate conditions play their part. [To that we add economic conditions.] Pasted from < https://web.archive.org/web/20060302165700/http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7021 >

Looking back - In 2002 it was clear that GUIs had issues. It seemed to open the way for alternatives that took as premise that 'the HTML client is not good enough.' They tended to cache more info on the client and find novel ways to render screens. Companies pursuing the problem included Curl, Droplet, Macromedia, Spotfire and others. What happened? An army of JavaScript developers came up with a plethora of scripts, and frameworks, and created Agile development, REST, and  disrupted the monolithic app server hegemony. https://adtmag.com/articles/2002/11/29/emerging-technology-rich-gui-clients.aspx