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Building Escher’s Waterfall
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Video of a working model with spoilers. (Digg:ProvBScie as BBC News:FT generally, obv)[…]

Johnny Foreigner, Branes, and the Limits of Fun
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I’m just about to finish “The Way We Think” by Fauconnier/Turner and i can’t avoid the feeling that it feels like a composite of books by continental philosophers that i have read but this time CORRECTLY TRANSLATED. In common […]

Corporate Font Piracy
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After ripping off Helvetica and Palatino, the Linotype corporation made a concerted effort when it was pointed out that the upcoming (well EVENTUALLY) XP system is to ship with something called “Segoe” that looks suspiciously like a commo[…]

urville.com
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Imaginary City #773 “urville” from the 20 years + imagining of one Gilles Trehin. There is a book forthcoming. Perhaps this is where St Elsewhere is found?[…]

Doctor Kathy Investigates
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She may or may not be a Doctor, and it may or may not be in a science, but on telly, does that really matter? She knows what’s what and that’s good enough. Anyway, there have been some great little bits in this short series, though there […]

In January/February 2006 Blog 7 was about Endings
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In tribute to Tom drawing NYLPM to a close.
And as a firther tribute to the top 100 tracks of that blog never reaching number 1, we thought it would be good to end the top 13 endings at number 4. But for anyone looking back in the archive and wonderi[…]

THE FT TOP 13 ENDINGS: 4. The end of the First Pokemon Movie
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Because all bets are off in a kids film, the outcome can be more outrageous, whether for good or bad. It’s the free-hand to go that bit further than the adults would stand that can produce a GAINT gem or a GIANT turd.
The end of the FIRST (gulp[…]

THE FT TOP 13 ENDINGS: 5. The corpse return to life
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BOOO! The genre is horror/thriller. It’s Carrie (good), it’s Fatal Attraction (bad). Just when you thought it was safe to relax a final jolt just to leave you a little bit tingly. This has fallen into disrepute of late as a trick that&#82[…]

THE FT TOP 13 ENDINGS: 7: It Was a Christmas Miracle
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This line was actually said at the end of an Xmo-special ep of the Wonder Years and it has served me well ever since. It can be used in voice over on ANY xmo-special. Add your own. As many times as you like. It’s always appropriate.
Number of t[…]

THE FT TOP 13 ENDINGS: 8: The Ending of TV Serials You Never Saw
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There was a time when if you missed a telly show, you really MISSED that show. Even when domestic video recorders came along in the late 70s this didn’t really change things that often. If you’d missed something there was never a way to f[…]

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