Random linkage

[spudtater]

• The Battle of May Island
• Google Maps placeholder — oops!
• Tetrachromacy and Looking for Madame Tetrachromat
• TV Tropes Wiki — including lots of sci-fi and anime stuff.
• Two cute visual math proofs.
• Does the plot from this 1962 french film seem familiar?

Comments

[zotz]

Well, Gilliam was very open about having based it on La Jetee. It was shown on TV around the time 12 Monkeys came out because of that. Most of the people I know who've seen it - myself included - watched it because of the connection.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Ah. I hadn't heard of it before.
Although I notice now that it is referenced in the Writing Credits for 12 Monkeys.

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

Tetrachromancy has been on my list of semi-plausible things I would like for a while, usually with a (low) UV-sensitive pigment. Also opposable big toes and a vitamin C pathway.

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

And if you can ever find Littlewood's Miscellany there are some very nice pictorial proofs and counter examples - the one I can remember off-hand is Littlewood's Crocodile.

[figg.livejournal.com]

Neat proofs.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

I don't get the Google maps placeholder significance.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Well, instead of a proper name for that bay-type-thing in the centre, they've just got "Xx". As if somebody put that in thinking "I'll figure out the proper name for this later..." and then didn't.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

Ah, I get it now. Guess I don't use googlemaps enough.

[scattergather.livejournal.com]

TVtropes is worse than bloody wikipedia...

"You are about to close 125 tabs. Are you sure you want to continue?"

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Heh heh heh.

[scattergather.livejournal.com]

It's since hit 360, and is still increasing.

I'm closing each tab as I read it, and I'm only opening links that pique my interest. Worse, some of the links have led to chains of Wikipedia articles...