Obviously they are collecting email addresses to give to the aliens in exchange for a cure for cancer, wormhole technology information and other such goodies.
he started with "PHARTIPHUKBORLZ" and played with the syllables until he came to something that was "sounded that rude, but was almost, but not quite, entirely inoffensive"
DNA authored "The Pirate Planet" (the planet that would dematerialze and then rematerialize around a slightly smaller planet) and the never-completed Shada (bits of which you can see in "The Five Doctors", used in place of Tom Baker actually coming back to film new sequences for the special). He did not author any others.
I read a short story based on Shada in one of the Doctor Who fanzines oh so many years ago, with still images from the completed shooting. it looks to have been a good story.
for the record, the "movie" that is show on PBS was actually a weekly television series from the other side of the pond that was movie-ized by PBS and now, as you say, "floats around". this does not make it less horrible. although the bits with the book are good.
interestingly enough, the bits of the "computerized looking" book were all down by hand instead of with computers... (IIRC)
i cannot endorse the radio script book enough for those who are interested in the production of the series. (publisher out of stock, so you'll have to visit your local used/rare book shop or have one of the online book folks track it down).
answered in the "Don't Panic" book. I don't have it on hand, but it is "Paul something someting something something", a real person who complained after the first broadcast of the programme, so it was altered in subsequent versions (including the radio script book).
This is about the most non-ambiguous ending to a series i've ever come across. how could you continue on from there in any direction? all the loose ends are tied up scattered into base elements.
of course, there could always be prequels and filler stories, such as "the extradinary sequence of events that happened to Marvin that he could never satisfactorily explain" (or something) when he escaped the Hagunenon (spelled wrong, i know) spacecraft.
First, let's note that this technology is used all the time - for example in baseball games to project ads onto various surfaces. has anyone complained that it's not a true representation of what is going on live? not that i've heard.
CBS uses this same method to shoot their logo all over NY landmarks during their morning "news" shows. again, i say "so what".
The thing that actually sickened me was watching the ball drop in times square (on TV) right onto a huge Discover(tm) ad. Nowhere else in the world (that i saw) was advertising space so blatantly exploited.
We're seeing more and more outside ad space (in the USA) being purchased not only for the impressions it will make in real life, but for those captured on tv and in movies, tv shows, etc. By starting to block them in this way, maybe we'll see a decline (however slight) in the selling of every square inch of public property to advertisers.
I have no idea if it was "right" or not but if enough ppl get pissed at CBS they'll stop doing it. I find it hilarious that NBC is outraged at this, as if when they purchased Jumbotron advertising it said in the contract "CBS will not mess with your ads during their broadcasts". Heck, the Real World on MTV blurs logos of companies all the time. Outrage! It is supposed to be "Real". says so right there in the title.
Presentation of news on televsion has been altered since tv began - beginning with what execs choose to show and exclude, including editing of soundbytes and videoclips, and now some digital jiggery-pokery. wake up, people. news is not nor never has been "pure" and this digital imagery trickiness is just another tool in a large arsenal. in these days of advanced digital imaging, i take anyting i don't see with my own eyes with a grain of salt.
i for one applaud CBS' move to use this technology to subvert advertising. let's see more of it! let's destroy an advertising culture infrastructure that is dominating our lives.
I just nominated segfault's Leonard Richardson. Not only does he write some of the funnier stories (this being my favorite), he is also one of the two main cofounders and coders of backend stuff. Granted, everything on segfault is not hilarious, but you have to work with what you're given. Plus, imagine reading the stuff that gets weeded out. Ugh.
Not to slight the hard work of Scott James Remnant (the other main segfault guy), but Scott is often recognized in press interviews and in friends and family stock offerings of Linux IPOs. And Leonard is chained to his Internet connection fixing things while Scott is off having a life or something. I say $2,000 is a small price to pay to keep a sense of humor about things. After all, laughter is the best medicine and who can put a price tag on your health?:)
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check the link before they catch on!
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http://segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3aa0088a -087aad20
Obviously they are collecting email addresses to give to the aliens in exchange for a cure for cancer, wormhole technology information and other such goodies.
We will now have a new TLD?
To: Admiral@USS_Virginia.sub
From: bigwig@pentagon.gov
Subject: Fire Torpedo #1!
One good thing about this movie is that the film it is printed on will eventually biodegrade.
(slartibartfast)
he started with "PHARTIPHUKBORLZ" and played with the syllables until he came to something that was "sounded that rude, but was almost, but not quite, entirely inoffensive"
(radio scripts book)
DNA authored "The Pirate Planet" (the planet that would dematerialze and then rematerialize around a slightly smaller planet) and the never-completed Shada (bits of which you can see in "The Five Doctors", used in place of Tom Baker actually coming back to film new sequences for the special). He did not author any others.
I read a short story based on Shada in one of the Doctor Who fanzines oh so many years ago, with still images from the completed shooting. it looks to have been a good story.
for the record, the "movie" that is show on PBS was actually a weekly television series from the other side of the pond that was movie-ized by PBS and now, as you say, "floats around". this does not make it less horrible. although the bits with the book are good.
interestingly enough, the bits of the "computerized looking" book were all down by hand instead of with computers... (IIRC)
i cannot endorse the radio script book enough for those who are interested in the production of the series. (publisher out of stock, so you'll have to visit your local used/rare book shop or have one of the online book folks track it down).
answered in the "Don't Panic" book. I don't have it on hand, but it is "Paul something someting something something", a real person who complained after the first broadcast of the programme, so it was altered in subsequent versions (including the radio script book).
This is about the most non-ambiguous ending to a series i've ever come across. how could you continue on from there in any direction? all the loose ends are tied up scattered into base elements.
of course, there could always be prequels and filler stories, such as "the extradinary sequence of events that happened to Marvin that he could never satisfactorily explain" (or something) when he escaped the Hagunenon (spelled wrong, i know) spacecraft.
This is already answered in great detail in the Radio Scripts book.
When will I hear your song on my local radio station?
What were the postive results of your meeting with the Pope? Did he let you wear his hat?
Glad to see some scientific research behind this age-old argument.
CBS uses this same method to shoot their logo all over NY landmarks during their morning "news" shows. again, i say "so what".
The thing that actually sickened me was watching the ball drop in times square (on TV) right onto a huge Discover(tm) ad. Nowhere else in the world (that i saw) was advertising space so blatantly exploited.
We're seeing more and more outside ad space (in the USA) being purchased not only for the impressions it will make in real life, but for those captured on tv and in movies, tv shows, etc. By starting to block them in this way, maybe we'll see a decline (however slight) in the selling of every square inch of public property to advertisers.
I have no idea if it was "right" or not but if enough ppl get pissed at CBS they'll stop doing it. I find it hilarious that NBC is outraged at this, as if when they purchased Jumbotron advertising it said in the contract "CBS will not mess with your ads during their broadcasts". Heck, the Real World on MTV blurs logos of companies all the time. Outrage! It is supposed to be "Real". says so right there in the title.
Presentation of news on televsion has been altered since tv began - beginning with what execs choose to show and exclude, including editing of soundbytes and videoclips, and now some digital jiggery-pokery. wake up, people. news is not nor never has been "pure" and this digital imagery trickiness is just another tool in a large arsenal. in these days of advanced digital imaging, i take anyting i don't see with my own eyes with a grain of salt.
i for one applaud CBS' move to use this technology to subvert advertising. let's see more of it! let's destroy an advertising culture infrastructure that is dominating our lives.
Not to slight the hard work of Scott James Remnant (the other main segfault guy), but Scott is often recognized in press interviews and in friends and family stock offerings of Linux IPOs. And Leonard is chained to his Internet connection fixing things while Scott is off having a life or something. I say $2,000 is a small price to pay to keep a sense of humor about things. After all, laughter is the best medicine and who can put a price tag on your health? :)
I seem to have faint memories of seeing a horse giving birth to an implanted Zebra of some sort on some nature show some time ago.
http://segfault.org/sto ry.phtml?mode=2&id=37da29ae-06cf9da0
http://www.thebeline.com/1999/0x02/is sue.html