Ten improbable covers

The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan quite rightly says "what on earth were they thinking" about the following Dylan covers

1. The Chipmunks: Mr Tambourine Man


2. Burl Ives: The Times They Are A-Changin'


3. Jonathan King: Million Dollar Bash


4. James Last: Like A Rolling Stone


5. Cliff Richard: Blowin' In The Wind


6. William Shatner: Mr Tambourine Man


7. Nancy Sinatra: It Ain't Me Babe


8. The US Navy Steel Band: Blowin' In The Wind


9. Lawrence Welk: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right


10. Mae West: If You Gotta Go, go Now

Why did Wittgenstein attack Popper with a poker?

I don't know it, but I will soon, as I ordered the book Wittgenstein's Poker by John Eidinow and David Edmonds.

Bob in Basel

Bob Dylan honours Switzerland by visiting Basel on April 14th 2009 and Geneva on April 20th 2009, for details see the tour homepage. Here are some impressions form the last visit of his Bobness

EVAMAR II: The empire strikes back

Just have a look yourself (sorry, german only):

• Weltwoche 47/08: Die Unreifeprüfung
  
• Medienmitteilung EDK 13.11.2008

How do you introduce a legend?

“The poet laureate of rock 'n' roll. The voice of the promise of the '60s counterculture. The guy who forced folk into bed with rock, who donned makeup in the '70s and disappeared into a haze of substance abuse, who emerged to "find Jesus," who was written off as a has-been by the end of the '80s, and who suddenly shifted gears and released some of the strongest music of his career beginning in the late '90s.”
(from a Buffalo News article 9 August 2002).

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Masterpieces in words of one syllables

When you're asked to explain the famous second incompleteness theorem of Kurt Gödel, what is maximum length of words (measured in syllables) you think you will have to use? George Boolos managed to do it in words of one syllable. You can find the text here.

Tour de Suisse, part 7: Geneva

Today we went to the Expat Expo to buy some cheese from cheeseclub. Afterwards we also enjoyed a nice (although a little foggy) autumn day in Geneva. By the way: the cheeses were delicious, there was Stinking Bishop, Cheddar, Red Leicester and Stilton and many more (just to name a few of the familiar ones).