Category Archives: arts

nerds mourn

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 10 by Anton

The sequels to The Matrix are not The Transpose and The Eigenvector but Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions.

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idle processing power is the devil’s workshop

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 09 by Anton

What fun! The Covers Project uses a database of cover songs to create chains of cover songs. (GirlHacker)

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another turn of the wheel

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 09 by Anton

The Lord of the Rings: The Novelization My readers may not know that I occasionally visit bookstores. At one such establishment this week, I heard a customer say, “I’ll wait a year and a half to read LotR if I … Continue reading →

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webs on the web

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 07 by Anton

It would be fair, I think, to say that James Lileks enjoyed Spider-Man, which apparently is a movie that opened this weekend. He also makes some interesting remarks about movies quâ cultural affirmation.

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hey nonny nonny

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 07 by Anton

The Angry Clam posted some pix of the Berkeley Morris. My then wife used to dance with this team, from 1986 to (i guess) 1992; but I can’t recognize any faces in these shots. (Terry O’Neill, the Fool, was killed … Continue reading →

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hammer & sickle & stripes

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 06 by Anton

Today I started to read Neil Smith’s Forge of the Elders, and had to chuckle at the names of the spaceships of the American Soviet Socialist Republic: Dole, McCain, Hatch (“three misunderstood and martyred socialist statesmen who had made America … Continue reading →

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it’s only a phase

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 06 by Anton

Turns of Phrase: Dogme 95 (from the World Wide Words site). The one ‘Dogme’ film I’ve seen, Italian for Beginners, violates one of the terms as stated here – unless the IV hose really did contain morphine.

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