Amuzing pictures of a person who looks a decade older than he really is. He is very photogenic and knows how to work with statues. His facial expressions speak more than volumes of encyclopedias. The site speaks for itself

M.C. Escher was a man who has contributed much to the art world. He is known for creating impossible objects and scenes, as well as complex seamless shapes and patterns. The funny thing is that he was a poor mathematics student, but it seems as though his drawing and woodcuts are very structured and architectural.

He was also fluent in tessellations, which are shapes that have no gaps that form a pattern. Simple tessellations are squares, triangles, and hexagons (think of a bee hive). Now you can experiment without the know-how of advanced geometry. Tess is a program compatible on Windows and Mac that makes it easy to make a cool design. All you have to do is choose from a particular starting point and you drag the shape around and move corners to make your very own unique tessellation. It also have a 3-D engine that can make donut shapes and other different tools.

William S. Burroughs used a writing technique know as “Cut-Up.” Nirvana and David Bowie have used it in their songwriting as well. The process usually involve having a typed work, then literally cutting it into four quandrants. Then you combine the unmatched squares and retranscribe it, altering the edge text to your liking to unite the teared pieces. You could also take 2 different written works and slice them down the middle and combine the alternate page. A new method involves computers. Now there are new ways to do this that might “cut” your time spent in half working with this style. There are Web Engines that you can paste text into that will rearrange your text for you. Spammers also use a cut-up or encrypted email to bypass email client filters that try to decode it.

Ripping: v. to dismantle and destroy free publications.

From the Rippers Page:

What are rippers? Rippers are a clandestine group of revolutionary rebels from around the world, who are out to detroy the greatest evil plaguing our world today! What evil you ask, the GREAT EVIL of FREE ENTERPRISE of course!!! These evil free enterprises are spreading their evils otherwise known as “free publications” across the world on every street corner, at every storefront, and at every bus stop! Tempting as it may seem to the average passerby who sees one of the fancy newspaper looking machines that says “free take one”; they must resist grabing one because those “free publications” are fueling the the very system that keeps the average businessmen in poverty because they cannot compete competively with a free product.

An organization formed in Tucson dedicated to the destruction of free enterprise material. I was an early member back in the day. Recently, there has been heavy resistance to the Rippers and their missions. Stifled by the media, the rebel Rippers keep evil in line with their escapades and stealthy maneuvers.

Fontophiles will be glad to know that there are tons of fonts that you can get for free and use for commercial purposes. Ray Larabie develops a bunch of typefaces, ranging from serif to decorative. You can’t get them directly from his website, but you can get as many as you want from MyFonts after you register. This is great news for people who are frugal designers, desktop publishers, webmasters, or any ordinary font user. You can’t beat free! One note of caution though: Larabie does make commercial fonts that cost money, but they are usually OpenType and PostScript format, but you can grab the Truetype fonts which should work just as well. MyFonts.com is pretty easy to use and you can even sample different font sizes, styles, and other useful information

This freeware program has a bunch of powerful and useful tools for novices and experts alike. Find unneccessary files on your hard drive, wipe free space, delete cookies, find unwanted registry entries, clean out program MRUs (most recently used lists), monitor or delete AutoRuns (startup programs), uninstall software, disable windows functions like error reports, automatic updates, and remote desktop, and much more. This program is very powerful, so use caution if you don’t know what something is. For the most part, there should be no problems though. I have been using it for a few years with no problems whatsoever. I highly recommend this if you want to do just about anything. Just watch out that you don’t install the program in German if you speak English (during the install process). To be honest though, the only flaw I saw is it does not have an attractive GUI (graphical user interface). However, the links are easy to navigate and the programs works wonderfully. The first versions had a few minor bugs, but the latest versions are bug free and have been a great help.

It works on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP, and you can get your free download at the author’s site, or if the site is down you can grab it from majorgeeks.com here.

I was thinking about thinking. Is it possible to not think at all? Or to think of everything simultaneously? I can assume it takes many cubic miles of minuscule meta-thoughts to make one coherent thought. Sometimes, (I think) I am thinking so complexly that my own brain will not understand. Those short moments when I baffle my imagination with a feeling of fulfilling nothingness, the surreal value of my empty yet vivid imagery invades my humanly character. At times, I know these sensations are not me alone, but a greater source of majesty. A ruler of existence trickles a droplet of almighty wonder on me- a mere speckle of dust, but a galaxy of awe in my eyes.

An artificial persion asked me this very question, and below is what my artificial reply was:

We have lost the past. The past held onto practically everything including fun, excitement, Adolf Hitler, dinosaurs, the printing press, Adam and Eve, books, phonographs, cavemen, art, portable slaves, weapons of minuscule destruction, the Confederacy, morality, candle-lit hangings, iron maidens, typewriters, and bathing once a month.