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Which of the following works would you

posted by Jason Kottke   Jan 12, 2007

Which of the following works would you choose to be lost, if only three could be saved: Michelangelo's Pieta, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Mozart's Don Giovanni, or Einstein's 1905 paper on relativity? Not so sure I agree with the conclusion here...surely Einstein's paper stands as a work unto itself, apart from the discovery it contains. Plus, maybe someone else (or a group of someone elses) wouldn't have given us relativity as elegantly and usefully as Einstein did. (via 3qd)

On the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth,

posted by Jason Kottke   Jan 27, 2006

On the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, a fun essay about Mozart as a hacker.