Daily Archives: September 12, 2003

Atlantic Film Festival 2003

Posted on September 12, 2003 by Arthur

The 23rd Atlantic Film Festival has started. Last year I noted that they had problems with their website, but this year it looks all fine to me. Well. Except for the use of that blinking text. And it shows in … Continue reading →

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Little mermaid

Posted on September 12, 2003 by Arthur

Some vandals knocked the most famous mermaid off her perch. We’re naturally talking about Copenhagen’s 90 year old bronze Little Mermaid, the one that oversees the city’s harbour. The Mermaid has been subject to a couple of repeated vandalism: she … Continue reading →

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Volcano thing

Posted on September 12, 2003 by Arthur

Report over at the Online Journal (via MetaFilter): apparantly there’s something brewing underneath the Yellowstone park: geologists suspect that a masssive supervolcano is lurking and possibly about to erupt. The vulcano is long overdue too: its regular eruption cycle is … Continue reading →

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English English (revisited)

Posted on September 12, 2003 by Arthur

Earlier I was talking about the perfect English as spoken by Alfons. Over at kottke there’s a thread about bilangual conversations in which I mention the near-perfect institutionalized English of the Dutch people. It reminds me of a phone call … Continue reading →

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Distributed weather stuff

Posted on September 12, 2003 by Arthur

Bored with your SETI online screensaver? Try a climate model! Via the BBC, a collaboration between the universities of Oxford and Reading, the Met Office, the Open University, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Tessella Support Services, resulted in a new … Continue reading →

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