Markovp*dia.


Now this is art. (via B*st Links of 2006)


Stalin's Wif*. (By Slava Tsuk*rman, of Liquid Sky.)

Without sound, without pain, twisting my form. Gray days full of cars. Will it fall soon? Not now. Soon.

   "Bad Dragoon"

abattoir abacus fast
stony storying logic
with gray caracul its pang



...3-logic is [topologically] equivalent to subtractive color theory, more than binary logic with a middle term added. A model: the "Scissors, Paper, Rock" game. Philosophically, 'true' can be considered {as-if (not (as-if))}; as-if is basic. But it is convenient to have a name for the world inferred by the realm of discourse: paratrue. ("False" can be made from T and T + F.) then, considering the two kinds of (Lojban) NOT: Polar opposite & Contrary (or: other than), we have a "scissors, paper, rock" circle: [a circle divided into thirds by the points A, B, C is pictured]. Let S = a proposition. Values: S, As-If S; other-than-S-that's-not As-If (call them A, B, C). A (Not As-if/ paratrue) is the contrary of C (Neither-True-Nor-False/ nonsense) and the polar opposite of B (As-If, or Both-True-and-False), which is the contrary of C.

A ∪ B → B    A ∪ C → A    B ∪ C → C

  Contrariwise:
A ∩ B → A    A ∩ C → C    B ∩ C → B

  Finally, if as-if = T ∪ F :

  F = (T ∪ F) ∩ (~T)

A novel which purports to be an exchange of letters between Teddy Roosevelt & Sherlock Holmes. Suggests that any combination of fiction & nonfiction has the truth value of fiction.


On my victrola- Piaf at th* Olympia


Big Cotton.


Prior to its icing up, this was cold.


IBM and th* Holocaust.