Category Archives: arts

the PIS/SE standard

Posted on Monday, 2003 March 24 by Anton

Peter Stickney writes in alt.peeves: Voice recognition will not be mature until a system can transcribe “Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)” with 95% accuracy, in real time.

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how to pull the birds

Posted on Saturday, 2003 March 08 by Anton

I knew there had to be a snag: Troy’s Bucket

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truth has more strangers than fiction

Posted on Monday, 2003 March 03 by Anton

Six degrees of Captain America: some scientists at the University of the Baleares “studied the statistical properties of the network of 6,486 characters in the 12,942 Marvel comic books” since 1961. They found that the network of acquaintance among Marvel … Continue reading →

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the funnies

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 February 26 by Anton

Tonja Steele – a swell sight-gag. PVP – growing older but not up.

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one strip at a time

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 February 25 by Anton

Day By Day makes a change from Republican-bashing cartoons by, you guessed it, bashing Democrats. But tastefully.

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“Your Name Here”

Posted on Thursday, 2003 February 20 by Anton

The ultimate generic industrial film, built around every script and visual cliché. I’ve just begun scratching the surface of the Prelinger Archive of ephemeral movies. (Link from two–four, who really doesn’t need to use such large type)

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squids in spaaace

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 February 18 by Anton

I’m reading Ken MacLeod’s Dark Light, the middle of a trilogy begun in Cosmonaut Keep and to conclude in Engine City. (I first re-read Keep; it was easier to follow the second time.) “Octopodia” as “the key insight,” how cheeky! … Continue reading →

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