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Archive for March 19th, 2008

Lost in Translation

Posted in Internets, tagged , , , on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »

Brilliant idea. It’s like having people act out your old VCR instruction manual.

As is says in it’s intro, these people perform a short piece that was written in English, translated (with babelfish - the online translation software) into French, then translated into German, then back into French and finally back into English.
The results are predictably [...]

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Goodbye, Arthur

Posted in Culture, Knews?, Raleigh, tagged , , , , on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Arthur C. Clarke died on March 18 - a visionary of the space age. He may be most remembered for ‘2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY’ which was developed from a 1951 (?) story “The Sentinel”. Kudos to anyone who knows what “The Sentinel” was about.
He also said:
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for [...]

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