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Weekend reads: Wyeth; Virtual us; Oxford over NFL; LOL cat tale; Bush, Brits, loos

2:53 PM Sat, Jan 17, 2009 |
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Wyeth, dead at 91. His 1948 Christina's World, above, hung on my freshman dormroom wall in college.

60 years later, beyond all that, he painted the watercolor Stop, below, which leads his official site:


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Andrew Wyeth at Google Images

NYT obit Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91 His dates: July 12, 1917 - January 16, 2009.

The best take I read: Andrew Wyeth is Dead at Art Blog Comments (a standalone blog, despite its name): "When I was a teenager and knew I was going to be an artist, Andrew Wyeth was the artist I wanted to be..."

Lots of Wyeth links at lines and colors' obit.


currentcover.jpgI'm a movie? Our world may be a giant hologram. New Scientist's print cover headline is more certain.

This English major gets the gist, thanks to a general idea of what pixels are, and what happens when you blow up a digital photo too much: It blurs. An experiment has found we're "blurred," too.

Thank Gene Roddenberry for planting this meme with the Star Trek Holodeck -- immersive and smart virtual reality. Not a simulation, like a Wii, but more like your dreams. And unlike The Matrix, no messy tubing.


Skipped a grade: Choosing a Rhodes Scholarship over the NFL? Now that's admirable. Florida State safety Myron Rolle has his head on straight.


Tax cat: Notasulga's 'Post Office Cat' receives national attention. An LOL news story from the Tuskegee, Ala., News. CNN had video, but in this case the book is much better than the movie. Read this and chuckle.


Knits shrink : Psychiatrist knits anatomically correct woolly brain. What would Freud say?


Bee here now: Exploring Consciousness through the Study of Bees: Scientific American.


Sword pen: * News * World news * George Bush Steve Bell on George Bush The Guardian cartoonist looks back at his years drawing the outgoing US president.. Steve Bell is brilliant, but if Bush was your kind of president, the Nastiness of this well-made art may raise your blood pressure.


Rest easy? Temporary restroom industry flushed with pride: 7,000 portable toilets await the crowds descending on Washington. Also from The Guardian, Oliver Burkeman's inauguration diary blog.

Expect irreverence.


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