HAHA. Bet Edward and Kellie didn’t expect that!

(Update, much later: it turned out this was the beginning of a now long-since-ended relationship.)

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Thanks to the Berkeley ASUC, I got to go with a few friends to see Across the Universe for free. Most (all?) of them had already seen it.

Synopsis: Young British guy, Jude, goes to find his dad in America (he’s a WWII child). Simultaneously, an American guy named Daniel enlists to go fight in the Vietnam War, gets killed, and leaves his girlfriend, Lucy, heartbroken. She happens to be the sister of the first guy Jude meets at Princeton, Max, while looking for his dad. Max drops out and he and Jude move to New York City, renting from…

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Philosophical question of the day: if a building has marks on it, say some kind of painting or designs, and it is painted over, do the marks still exist?

(Of course there are arguments to be made for both yes and no answers.)

Separately, via Slashdot: Understanding art for geeks

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