There are dozens of search engines. I ddon't really understand why Google is so highly regarded as I've always found it to be lacking. Ask Jeeves is far superior for general enquiries and Dogpile is great for finding images and sound files. Michael
--- Ray Noman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OMG ... Went to DOGPILE - and I was under the > illusion that there was only > Google so I1m learning something - and found this: > > 3We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this > is not the nothing of > negation. For not means other than, and other is > merely a synonym of the > ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; > while the present pure > zero is prior to every first. The nothing of > negation is the nothing of > death, which comes second to, or after, everything. > But this pure zero is > the nothing of not having been born. There is no > individual thing, no > compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the > germinal nothing, in which > the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As > such, it is absolutely > undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless > possibility. There is no > compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom.2 > Charles S. Peirce, "Logic > of Events" (1898) > > Then I did a random Google image search and found > these: > > € > <http://www.ae.gatech.edu/research/controls/pictures/f020801_gtar/More%20of% > 20Nothing.JPG> > > € > <http://www.bangmoney.org/travel/ga_to_ca_move/grfx/folder1/nothing.jpg> > > All of which kind of suggests that there is quite a > bit to nothing and it > also seems that1s been know for some time. So I > think DA1s explanation - 42 > - is more comprehendible albeit that all this is > quite interesting. > > Ray _from way out on the edge > eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (when the server1s up) > > BTW ... I did get the JPEG! > > > > > On 2/5/04 5:22 PM, "michael leigh" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --Ooops! It seems one cannot send jpegs or even > html > > via the Fluxlist so you did not get to see the > diagram > > of "nothing" which seems very fitting under the > > circumstances - sending "nothing" and finding out > > "nothing" never arrived! > > But if you are keen to see a diagram of "nothing" > I > > suggest you go to DOGPILE and type in "nothing" > and > > several thousand images of "nothing" pop up - one > of > > which is the diagram of "nothing" in a discourse > about > > the beginning of the universe. All the best, > Michael > > > > > > - Ray Noman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I > think > > this is all quite ZENzing if not FLUXUS and > >> > I1m contemplating using > >> > that scientific drawing/diagram for a logo for > >> > something Zz. > >> > > >> > BUT, I also think that in the end this > discourse > >> > about nothingness, or > >> > somethingness, or whatever, well maybe Douglas > Adams > >> > probably had an (the?) > >> > answer which I struggle to recall ..... Was it > Œ421 > >> > or is it now another > >> > number like Œ01 or Œ11 or a whole string of 0s > & 1s? > >> > Somethingness is just > >> > so hard to avoid, and as for nothingness, well > it is > >> > equally difficult to > >> > embrace. > >> > > >> > Then again, when I didn1t go to the meeting it > was > >> > quite OK doing nothing > >> > rather than something instead. Quite silly > really! > >> > > >> > > >> > Ray _from way out on the edge > >> > eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (when the server1s up) > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" > > your friends today! Download Messenger Now > > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html
