Book of Couplets

Eventually linear, set between the near East and the Far West. The Book of Couplets lives in Montreal, Berlin and Shanghai.

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The tricky part in designing [the algorithm] was how to take something mysterious -- human attraction -- and break it into components that a computer can work with.

How OKCupid's love-matching algorithms work.

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Once I drank with a vengeance. / Now I drink in surrender. / The thaw cannot keep me from wintering in. -- Eric Pankey

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What colour should I be getting to usher in the year of snake?

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I used to walk with my eyes lowered, but now I am constantly looking up and taking in the details of the world around me.

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A girl posts a few words poking fun on the internet and is put in prison. I can't tell if the apocalypse is approaching or not.

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After a two year affair, L. leaves C. with only a terse email as goodbye. Hotmail and Skype accounts vanish. C. calls. And calls. And calls.

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At night, from space. -- @Fascinatingpics 

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On the U7, redhead kisses into her Samsung Galaxy. Passengers jolted from the rumble of their thoughts by three wet sucking noises.

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OH BERLIN! Frosty cold and generous sunlight! -- ‏@slowberlin

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One can never have enough color themes for Sublime Text 2: -- @KThornbloom

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Went to bed in winter, woke up in spring. -- @kateykoo82:

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The man removes his hat and mittens. It is -25 C outside. He dips his ham and mustard sandwich into hot chocolate and eats with gusto.

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Coral sand magnified 100x photo by David Maitland. Coral sand is composed of the microscopic shells of single-celled organisms, as well as small bits of coral. (read more)

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"But I also know that there were many more such details than I could possibly remember. They have left a vague imprint of wonderment, as after a dream."

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"The artwork in this gallery offers a glimpse of how modern these sounds were before jazz and rock by how they were interpreted graphically on early LP covers."

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The hesitant U-turn of an old red car. A thousand backward glances.