Art Museum’s Modern Addition Gets Mixed Response (NPR)
The new addition to Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opens Saturday. It’s a complex of five rectangular, milky white glass structures built into the hillside. Some are calling it the best new art museum in a generation. But the contemporary addition to this Kansas City landmark is raising some hackles.
Software More an Art Than a Science? (Linux World)
Infoworld ran a story yesterday on comments made by Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie. ‘The problem is,’ said Mundie, ‘that software development is an important endeavor but it has not matured as an engineering process, it’s still an art form.’ He was responding to the claim that Microsoft is racing too fast into the brave new world of a ‘multidevice environment where …
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Hyperbolic Grumpy Guts Hangin’ Around
Knot By Gran’ma posted a photo:
Hyperbolic Grumpy Guts is crochet out of acrylic yarn, and cotton thread. His eyeball and eyebrow were sewn on after he was completed. He is not stuffed. Hyperbolic Grumpy Guts measures 13 inches (33 cm) long and is 5 inches (12.7 cm) wide and the red section. His body is roughly 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) wide.
The red and pink (or math) area of Hyperbolic Grumpy Guts is done with the idea of a hyperbolic plane. N=2 in his case, which means roughly that I increased this piece every 2 stitches for the hyperbolic plane effect.
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