“Saul Kripke uses the function exclusive disjunction to establish that there is no fact, either in one’s mind (inner) or in one’s past behaviour (outer), that fixes the meaning of the words one utters.”.

Oliver Jeffers “is an artist, designer, illustrator and writer from Northern Ireland.
These paintings are based on conversations about the relationship between traditional figurative painting, human behaviour and mathematics.”.

Above: Not A Something But Not A Nothing Either, oil and vinyl on canvas, from the Additional Information exhibition.

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Centraal Beheer “is an insurance company sited in The Netherlands, famous for its campaign of TV commercials. These are short humoristic spots, generally without dialogue, in which something goes horrendously wrong.”. See, for example, Zweefvliegers (Glider).

Above: Acupunctuur (Acupuncture, 2006). From YouTube.

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“Ever wondered how a word is pronounced?
Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you.
You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.”.
Forvo: all the words in the world, pronounced.

Efdemin. Techno/House/Experimental. From Berlin.

Listen: Bergwein.

Above: Phillip Sollmann (photo by Yasmina Haddad).

“Polyvore is a web-based application for mixing and matching images from anywhere on the web, to create outfits, interior designs, or any kind of collage.”.

Right: Mon identité, by minaplume; based on Red 2007 by Oleg Dou.

“I don’t speak with economists never it’s a waste of time I will do an exception for you because you seem a bad economist.”.

Concursante (The Contestant, 2007). A movie by Rodrigo Cortes.
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Bombsville Any kind of failure in life. End A word to signify that someone or something is the very best. Player Term for a man who is a gambler by nature, who makes friends easily, and never gives up trying. Rain As in “I think it’s going to rain” indicating that it is time to leave a dull gathering or party.

“Part of Sinatra’s manly and cool presence came from the way he talked.
It not only created a magnetic attraction, but simply sounded damn cool.”.
Talk Like Frank Sinatra. From The Art of Manliness.

Aperture: f/9 Angle of view: 146° Film format: 110 Shutter Speed: 1/100 sec. Demekin*: a fisheye 110 film camera for subminiature photography.

Above: Demekin camera, detail.

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Leon: “Will you smile?” Ninotchka: “Why?” Leon: “Well, just smile.” Ninotchka: “At what?” Leon: “At anything. At the whole ridiculous spectacle of life. At people being so serious, taking themselves pompously, exaggerating their own importance. If you can’t think of anything else to laugh at, you can laugh at you and me.” (From Wikiquote)

I love this woman.
Ninotchka (by Ernst Lubitsch, 1939).