2026-03-11 13:37 UTC
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@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-12 10:41
A funny detail, via @11011110: In 2008, the university temporarily removed Het Ding for maintenance – and they accidentally put it back the other way up! See before and after photos here, taken from https://www.utoday.nl/campus-life/74074/student-prank-and-artwork-het-ding-exists-50-years
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@FlashMobOfOne@mstdn.social 2026-03-11 14:35
@robinhouston That's rad.
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@11011110@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-11 17:34
@robinhouston And it's had its own (Dutch) Wikipedia article since 2017: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Het_ding_(kunstwerk)
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@SylviaFysica@scholar.social 2026-03-12 18:27
@robinhouston Cool, I know that thing, first saw it 19 years ago, and have recently seen it again - never knew it was prank though!
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@forteller@tutoteket.no 2026-03-12 18:56
@robinhouston I love this!
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@livingpixel@indieweb.social 2026-03-12 18:58
@robinhouston "The Thing" ... very Dutch
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@wouterkobes@mastodon.social 2026-03-12 19:02
@robinhouston https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1834502858 for those who want to visit
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@rjmoerland@mastodon.art 2026-03-12 20:36
@robinhouston I've spent quite a few years there and I never knew until now!
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@josgeluk@mastodon.nl 2026-03-12 22:20
@robinhouston that is, of course, a mere summary of that other Thing, the Needle Tower by Kenneth Snelson. In the garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum.
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@digihobbit@mastodon.social 2026-03-12 23:03
@robinhouston I walk by it every day on my lunch walk. I think it's a beautiful piece of mathematical art
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@xan@xantronix.social 2026-03-13 04:03
@robinhouston do that in the United States and the SWAT and bomb squad will show up
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@jeroen94704@fosstodon.org 2026-03-16 13:51
@robinhouston Us Dutch certainly have a way with naming stuff, don't we? Reminds me of "Hanny's Voorwerp" (Hanny's Object): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanny's_Voorwerp
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@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca 2026-03-16 16:20
@robinhouston guerrilla art