Hardcore for Nerds

On The Dungheap of History First blog post of 2024, on a rabbit hole of translations and etymologies I was sent down on finding a word in a Psalm variously translated as “dung hill” or “...

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> Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @PP_Rubens > Saint Anthony, being tempted. Because the possibility of dining on > barbecued ear was really enticing to hermit saints! By Jan Mand...

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melmendeesss : >  RIP Matthew Perry I read the whole of his memoir yesterday and wrote a post about it on my other blog.

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> “For the most formidable of international jurists today, the > Finnish scholar Martti Koskenniemi, international law is best termed > a hegemonic technique, in the Gra...

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“On the second anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, Priestley’s house was looted and burned down by a mob (inspired by the King and the Church) that was enraged by Priestley’s view of r...

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Tracing the Hard Edges of Religion: On Peter Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind” > Although Journeys of the Mind is a vivid and droll guide to > Brown’s role in advancing t...

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zegalba : >>  Sony PlayStation 2 Controversial Lara Croft Advertisement (2000)

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The task, then, is to rethink artificial intelligence not as a competitor to, but as an inorganic extension of actual intelligence. But putting an end to the ongoing mechanisation of human reason...

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myjetpack : > my latest cartoon for the @guardian > 

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Missa Pro Defunctis: I: Requiem Aeternam - Orazzio Vecchi, Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer (2017) > For his latest Glossa CD with Graindelavoix > , Björn > Schmelzer  > takes his�...

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Backhuysen, Ludolf, Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee  (1695) Relating to Bach’s cantatas for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany , based around Matthew 8:23-27.

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JS Bach, Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen? (Jesus sleeps, what should be my hope?),  BWV81: No. 1 Aria Writing about Bach’s two cantatas for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany , focusing on th...

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Pierre de Manchichourt , Messe de requiem: Introït, performed by La Tempête and Simon-Pierre Bestion - Hypnos (Alpha Classics, 2022) Heard on Radio: La Baroque from France Musique If there...

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Low January midday sun illuminating a fragmentary headstone in St. Kevin’s Park, Camden Row, Dublin

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JS Bach, Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe (I stand with one foot in the grace), BWV153: No. 1 Sinfonia Continuing my series of listening to Bach cantatas on the liturgical date they were origi...

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hardcorefornerds : > Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103: Aria: > Kein Arzt ist ausser dir zu finden - John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi > Choir.�...

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Urban fractals  (Hatch Street Upper, Dublin - reflection of Earlsfort Terrace, Royal University of Ireland buildings )

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Motivational Masculinity: Podcast Ascetics : > What I’ve tried to tease out here is that there is a modern > moment of what might be termed spiritual exercises, consisti...

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“Tell me this, writes Plato: > Would a serious and intelligent farmer, with seeds he cared about > and wished to grow to fruition, sow them in summer in the gardens o...

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Just got my copy of the Regulator Watts The Aesthetics of No-Drag LP reissue  in the post… probably the album I’m most excited to see in full 12″x12″ glory instead of the (at best) 400x...

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