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Very interesting and useful

juan — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:43:33 -0600

Very interesting and useful article! Thank you!

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Great post, fully information

Alex Carol — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:04:28 -0600

Great post, fully information

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Alex Carol — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:50:50 -0600

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I've seen some beautiful

furnaces milwaukee — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:06:40 -0600

I've seen some beautiful furniture of the Quakers, that's really interesting stuff because the line is sober and pure, like the Quaker oats man...Really,interesting article...Thank you for posting..

Interesting article

Andrew — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:19:11 -0500

Very interesting and useful article! Thank you!

Hey there, I love that thing

katy — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:52:31 -0500

Hey there, I love that thing of infinitum, the picture inside the picture, inside the picture, inside the picture, and so on. By the way, I've seen some beautiful furniture of the Quakers, that's really interesting stuff because the line is sober and pure, like the Quaker oats man...
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Informative

sonia.mike732 — Mon, 02 May 2011 02:01:10 -0500

Its a very useful and informative post.
Weldon job.

Mise-en-abîme

elliot — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:54:02 -0600

Mise-en-abîme ("placing into infinity or "placing into the abyss", see Wikipedia) has always fascinated me. I suppose it started with the Quaker Oats man (who I'm sure I've mentioned here before):

(from http://www.scripophily.com/)

Though I remember this image more vividly, and with reds, and I think from my childhood. Notice how he's holding a box with another Quaker Oats man just like him on it, and he's holding a box, ad infinitum.

The laughing cow is another food-related one (see http://lunettesrouges.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2007/10/mise-en-abyme.119332...).

Also popular in the visual arts (Dali's La Guerre, see http://www.ecriture-art.com/art/dalilaguerre.jpg).

And literature (the play within a play of Hamlet, footnotes to a poem in Pale Fire which actually constitute the narrative etc.). And film (Synecdoche, New York is probably the best example, but it also happens in Adaptation and more recently in Inception: dreams within dreams, reflecting and influencing each other).

And obviously in nature and mathematics we have fractals. And in computer science recursive functions. And so on...

So, quite interesting, occasionally mind bending.

I wondered whether I could extend this idea to web servers: could a web server present a page; and on that page, a link which would start another web server and load a page from it; the latter page being embedded in the first page, and also presenting a link which would start another web server then load a page from it; ad infinitum...

So I wrote such a thing in Ruby. It's attached to this blog entry. Here's a screenshot:

It could carry on until the resources of the computer ran out (here I started 19 web servers). It uses jQuery to load the content from the next web server into an iframe inside the current page. You need rack, backports, and mongrel to run it.

Just for fun.