> More freaky RinkWorks coincidences: symmetrical hair partings as bad?

Pro quo: "I have begun a personal protest of symmetry. You're welcome to join in and help out with the picketing and the rioting. Symmetry is evil, and I submit as evidence the haircuts of people who part their hair right down the middle. As a society, we have this misguided notion that symmetry is aesthetically pleasing, that what is on one side must be balanced on the other."

Sam my friend, I don't know how to break this to you; but I don't think you're psychologically prepared to handle all the consequences of a non-symmetric bilateral-free society. Yes, you were talking about just simple bilateral symmetry. But again there's that old world-of-worlds beyond human comprehension. Hey ho, as a chemist and neurologist I've been trained rigourously, for years, to handle the finer points to the dangerous dimensions in rotational symmetry: 6-handed chirality, transpositions, mirroring, anamorphisms and, yes, inversions, among others. Nature, red in tooth and claw, uses all the symmetry tricks in the bag and then some. Unfortunately for us, our brains are stuck in the bilateral symmetry rut (Darnit!). Our minds prefer viewing the universe in polarities even though the universe clearly isn't set up that way. Yep, that's why we typically install 2 faucet lines labelled "Hot" and "Cold" water, but no one thinks about creating a third, equally viable spigot called "Lukewarm"...

Wolf "heh" spirit