upside down

[miriam_e]

Huh!

While programming a virtual world I just noticed that up is dn turned upside down. :)

Some oldies I like are:
now + here = nowhere
and
live is evil reversed.

Meaningless fun.

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[revbobbob.livejournal.com]

My fave is ELVIS LIVES, VEILS EVILS.

And do pick up Godel, Escher, Bach again. There's a fellow I recall named Scott Kim who does some amazing things with typography, and Hoffstedter (sp?) includes a lot of his work.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I have Godel, Escher, Bach. I've forgotten about Scott Kim. I must read it again. For that matter I must read "Mind's Eye" again too (Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennett). Lots of lovely mental gymnastics in that one, mostly centered around the topics of consciousness, the mind, emotion, etc.

Did you ever read Hofstadter's guest columns in Scientific American some decades ago? I used to love them. If I remember right he shuffled the letters of "Mathematical Games" (Martin Gardner's superb old column) to make it "Metamagical Themas". Lots of fun and games. I particularly enjoyed his stuff on self-referential sentences and words.