kitch

in order to qualify as kitch, a thing has to be both tacky and fun ... and in some way good ... based on reading a third of the book ...

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The problem is one of the elements of CAD. The project is: developing a CAD that is freely available to anyone, running on line in the browser, with an easily understood interface, limitless representational and publishing power, and supported by advertising.

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with line AB perpendicular to rectangular plane segment wh through its center (and thus establishing the formula for the plane), and given A, B, w, h, f and O, where A,B, and O are coordinate sets for points, calculate the location of point i, the intersection of line AO and plane wh, in terms of its perpendicular distance from lines w and h

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Strathern, Paul, Socrate in 90 Minutes:
"Socrates grew up in the age of Pericles, when Athens was the strongest civilized city-state in the Hellenic World. Its advances influenced the entire course of human development."
Did Socrates, debating in the markets, contribute to this prosperity in some practical way?
For example, by convincing people that it is practical to be good ... ? Or by entertaining them, contributing to the urban scene, being a comedian, and inducing the citizenry to think, for recreation ... ?

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knowledge of the truth is mystical
studying the mysterious
mysterious approaches to studying

Socrates goes out and debates with people at the agora - about what is practical.*
(*for example, is it practical to be evil? is it practical to be good?)

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