Month: April 2005
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Curry With Alec And Suz
Alec and Suz are visiting Aberystwyth at the moment, in a hunt for a place to live next year and possibly over the summer too. Suz has a final year to go in her degree (having spent this academic year, and the next few months, traipsing around Europe as part of her course), and Alec …
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Google Wants Your DIY Porn Videos
Got home videos? Send them to Google! That's the message that Google co-founder Larry Page is trying to put out.
In anticipation of launching a "video search" system, Google wants a stack of material on which they can test their "video spider" - a program which will hunt for keywords (spoken, or on-screen) in video material, … -
Black Holes “Almost Certainly Don’t Exist”
A brave physicist claims that black holes don't exist at all, but what we are interpreting as the existence of black holes - where stars have collapsed into tiny, superdense masses with an event horizon within which matter/energy escape is almost impossible - are actually... dark energy! (yes, yet another dark-matter/dark-energy claim)
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English Usage, And Colourblind Humour
I did the Commonly Confused Words Test (hey; shouldn't that be the Frequently Confused Words Test): here's my score -
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 93% Expert! You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to … -
A Social Weekend; Script Improvements, Too
Things are making progress re: the film - JTA's made a few script changes that actually make a couple of the relationships in the story make sense, to which Paul said "These changes make the story work... I don't like them..."
In other news, my parents have each agreed to lend us their respective video cameras, … -
For Sale: Pope - One Previous Owner
Seen this eBay auction?
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Lunch And Screenplays
I had lunch today at the cafe with Paul, Claire, Andy R, Sian, Bryn, Ruth, JTA, Liz, Hayley, and Jon, for the first public scrutiny of the script for The Film. As Production Coordinator (and Assistant Director), I'll be keeping Paul and The Cast from killing one another. Or, at least, keep the former from …
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Ceefax On Scatmania
Do you remember Ceefax, that wonderful service from the BBC that seemed so cool until you discovered the internet? Well I do. And so does a Dutch consultant who set up a system, on the web, for searching Ceefax pages.
Well; in any case; I thought that his site was fun (in a nostalgic kind-of way) … -
Aarne-Thompson Folktale Classification System
Would you know it: there's an "opposite number" to the Dewey Decimal System (introduction to the system [PDF]) - which for the most part of a centurey has been used to categorise books according to their topic and content - for categorising folk tales: the Aarne-Thompson Classification System.
It's horrendously difficult to find information on it …