User:Da Vynci

Articles worth reading IMHO:

• Brave New World
• Technological singularity
• End of civilization Humanity section
• Prisoner's dilemma
• impossible object
• Non-apology apology & Non-denial denial
• Double entendre
• Classical cipher
• Cartoon physics
• Allegory of the Cave

other interesting subjects:

• Random act of kindness
• Ventriloquism
• Cryptomnesia
• Unsolved problems in philosophy
• You have two cows
• Steganography
• List of Latin phrases
• Unusual articles in Wikipedia
• Social engineering
• Reverse engineering
• List of cognitive biases

I was shocked to find out the following were once permitted officially by governments in our so called civilisation.

• Trial by ordeal
• Trial by combat
• Forced disappearance
• Witch trial

Other shocking subjects/event:

• Kamikaze
• School massacre
• Nevada-tan

Artists that I like: Jeffrey Smart | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | J. M. W. Turner | John William Waterhouse | M. C. Escher.

Interesting writers: Ni Kuang | Louis Cha | Plato | J. K. Rowling | Dame Agatha Christie | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Other interesting books/texts:

• Form, L. Peter Kollar,1983
• Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art, by Ananda Coomaraswamy,1956
• The Mark of Butterfly ( 蝴蝶的記號 ), by Xue Chen ( 陳雪 ), circa 1990
• Right hand, Left hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures, by Chris McMaus, 2002

• Looking for Alibrandi, by Melina Marchetta, 1992
• The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1909
• The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, circa 11th century
• Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, 1726
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, 1870

• Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den ( 施氏食獅史 ) , by Zhao Yuanren, date unknown

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About me

This user is male.

This user uses Commonwealth spelling.

More about me

Committed identity: 6832718bd16290d66f5c43fd21ef5edd63b21d36b09a8c79e93ed38345c605e16889c26af6f922f7ae6e22474e4441d986541da2f4833cf1a01ab98e472a945a is a SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

This user is left-handed.	SI This user prefers the metric system of measurement.	This user exercises regularly and drinks a lot of water to stay hydrated.
This user does not smoke.	This user is nocturnal.	GMT var This user's time zone changes every so many days/weeks/months.
This user has astigmatism.	This user is short-sighted.	This user would like to own one or more dogs.
This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.	This user remembers using a rotary dial telephone.

Ideologies

This user enjoys philosophy.	This user is interested in religion as a sociological and psychological phenomenon.	This user is interested in religion as a metaphysical or theological phenomenon.
This user is interested in the belief that death is an acceptable part of life.	This user is straight but not narrow.	♀♂ This user believes a marriage consists only of one man and one woman.
PC This user is Pro-choice.	This user thinks that the communists ruined the beauty of Chinese characters by simplifying them.	Majority ≠ right This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
This user supports recycling.

Interest

This user enjoys origami.	This user is interested in coin collecting.	This user is an art lover.
This user enjoys photography.	This user is a music composer.	This user flies RC Planes and does NOT think they're toys!
This user enjoys writing.	PSY This user's favorite subject is Psychology.	This user enjoys woodworking.

Films and TV

This user took the red pill, not the blue pill.	PULP This user does not think Marsellus Wallace looks like a bitch.	This user is against the colorization of black and white movies.
This user watches 24.	LOST 4 8 15 16 23 42	d'oh! This user thinks The Simpsons is simply...excellent.
This user is a fan of Law & Order. L&O	LS This user watches the Late Show with David Letterman

Music

Classical

This user's favorite composer is Frédéric Chopin.

This user loves Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

This user loves the music of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Contemporary

fan-3 This user loves Shiina Ringo.

LARUKU This user is addicted to L'Arc~en~Ciel.

fan-3 This user loves Faye Wong.

Computing

Operation System

This user contributes using a PC.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows.

This Windows user has experienced one or more Blue Screens of Death.

Software & hardware

Auto CAD This user knows how AutoCAD works.	This user contributes using 3ds Max.	This user contributes using AdobePhotoshopCS2
This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.	n This user uses a nVidia {{{1}}} graphics card in their PC.