Category Archives: arts

physics games

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 28 by Anton

Greg Egan’s moving story “Border Guards” mentions the game of Quantum Soccer, which he demonstrates with an applet. See also Ruth Chabay‘s game Electric Field Hockey.

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the unseen eminence

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 February 27 by Anton

Everybody’s mourning Spike Milligan today. Strangely, I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any of his work.

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it’s all derivative

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 February 27 by Anton

LotR: same old thing?

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nothing new under the sun

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 February 26 by Anton

I thought the “. . . Not!” construction was new when Wayne & Garth used it, but here it is in the mouth of Archie Goodwin: “We know she didn’t kill her husband. Either you thought she had and probably still do, or … Continue reading →

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the happy dawg

Posted on Monday, 2002 February 25 by Anton

All I seem to do in this blog is complain. I need a hobby. Or a job. Well, here’s something positive: I’m listening to Dawganova by the David Grisman Quintet (1995), a playful acoustic album with a bit of bluegrass … Continue reading →

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a kind of forgery

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

acb relays an article about anachronisms of typeface in movies. I remembered my glee in spotting Palatino (1950) in a tv episode of Poirot (Thirties), and post-1918 Russian handwriting described as “very old . . . hard to read” in Lovejoy.

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need I say more?

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 21 by Anton

Frodo Blackadder

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