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Immanentize the Empathy

Month: February 2003

A Little at a Time

John Winkelman

Little by little this thing is coming together. I got around the IE6 fuckup bug by redoing the layout as absolutely positioned DIV tags, rather than floated DIV tags. The only browser which will be broken by this will not load the stylesheet at all.

While studying up on some artists I came across Olga’s Gallery , a huge collection of scans of artists from all eras, from all over the world. Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Titian, all four Brueghels; well over a hundred artists and over a thousand works of art.

This is the only place on-line where I have found Ivan the Terrible and His Son by Repin, scanned with any skill at all.

And so to bed.

The More Things Change…

John Winkelman

“……sober thought in our time is all but impossible: it costs too much. It is true that people buy read-made ideas. They are sold everywhere, and even given away; but the ones that come free of charge prove to be even more expensive, and people are already beginning to realize that. The result is benefit to none and the same old disorder.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1873

A New Look

John Winkelman

So here I am with a new look and feel. Still ironing out the bugs. The worst one is an IE 6 quirk which doesn’t precisely render 70% and 30%, thus sending the navigation down to the bottom of the page, below the content. Also, IE6 has a problem rendering the page if I have in-line images within the content. Basically, IE6 can bite me. So can any other browser which renders in a manner inconsistent with Mozilla.

I returned Flash Math Creativity. Everything in it can be found on line, and I felt the $50.00 could be better spent. SO yesterday I picked up The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins and A Writer’s Diary: 1873-1876 , volume 1 of a two-volume set of the writings of Dostoevsky. I picked up the Dawkins because, as I was thumbing through it, I found screen-shots of the Biomorph artificial evolution simulator. I spent hours playing with the thing a year ago. And again just now.

In other news I am, for the first time in my life, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer.