Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Typo of the week, in a book about filmmaking, in a passage explaining the equipment in a Foley room (where technicians supply the sound effects of footsteps crunching across gravel, for instance):
There may be a wide variety of shoes—high heels, tennis shoes, sandals, or even specially made shoes for the robots and druids of The Phantom Menace.
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...one of the conclusions that we saw emerging from our discussion of Maya kings, Greenland Norse chieftains, and Easter Island chiefs is that, in the long run, rich people do not secure their own interests and those of their children if they rule over a collapsing society and merely buy themselves the privilege of being the last to starve or die.
—Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, p. 513 posted: 1:59:57 PM |
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