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Alices in Wonderlands

carsonb — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:44:41 -0800

Alice illustrations other than Tenniel Favorites so far: Tove Jansson Khodozhnik S. Goloshchapov Debbie Boon-Jenkins Some Previously/Related stuff [filler; stuffing]: Alice In Civil War Land posted by Marxchivist EAT ME: Alice's Adventures Under Ground posted by Pretty_Generic The Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-engraved Illustration posted by thomas j wise The children's book illustrators archive posted by OmieWise

Mathematics vs. Democracy: A Clear Winner or a Tie Game?

jonp72 — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:11:39 -0800

The Marquis de Condorcet and Admiral Jean-Charles de Borda were two men of the French Enlightenment who struggled with how to design voting systems that accurately reflected voters' preferences. Condorcet favored a method that required the winner in a multiparty election to win a series of head-to-head contests, but he also discovered that his method easily led to a paradoxes that produced no clear winners. The Borda method avoids the Condorcet paradox by requiring voters to rank choices numerically in order of preference, but this method is flawed because the withdrawal of a last-place candidate can reverse the election results. Mathematicians in the 19th century attempted to design better voting systems, including Lewis Carroll, who favored an early form of proportional representation. Economist Kenneth Arrow argued that designing a perfect voting system was futile, because his "impossibility theorem" proved that it's impossible to design a non-dictatorial voting system that fulfills five basic criteria of fairness. (more inside)

Jabberwocky!

YamwotIam — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:07:23 -0800

Translations [previously]. Pronunciation guide. The movie. The engine. A poster. Spellchecked. And a weird link to Hamlet.

Papapetrou & Lewis

tellurian — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:44:56 -0800

Melbourne artist Polixeni Papapetrou takes photographs of her daughter that are inspired by Lewis Carroll. For the same reasons. [Links SFW but be careful clicking around]

Mmmmm... Freedom of Speech-y

jscalzi — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:37:03 -0800

A Good Day for Video Games. Turns out that video games are protected by the First Amendment, at least according to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which today overturned a St. Louis ruling that video games do not constitue protected speech. A good quote from the opinion: "If the first amendment is versatile enough to 'shield [the] painting of Jackson Pollock, music of Arnold Schoenberg, or Jabberwocky verse of Lewis Carroll,' we see no reason why the pictures, graphic design, concept art, sounds, music, stories, and narrative present in video games are not entitled to a similar protection. The mere fact that they appear in a novel medium is of no legal consequence."

Wonderful Anamorphic Art

ewagoner — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:10:18 -0800

You've probably seen those photo mosaics where a large image is made up of many smaller images acting as pixels. Kelly Houle has taken the idea a mile further by creating a photo collage that is also anamorphic -- a collage of illustrations and related material from Alice in Wonderland that, when a curved mirror is placed in the correct position, forms a portrait of Lewis Carroll. Absolutely amazing stuff.

TextArc

Mwongozi — Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:41:38 -0800

TextArc is an interactive program that reproduces the text of more than 2,000 books as works of art.
The software converts the text into an interactive map that allows viewers to quickly see relationships between words and characters at a glance, even without having read the book. Try it with Alice in Wonderland. (Links opens a full-screen window.)