{"id":1973,"date":"2004-04-20T19:29:43","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T02:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/04\/20\/1973.html"},"modified":"2004-04-20T19:29:43","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T02:29:43","slug":"extended-oddments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/04\/20\/extended-oddments\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended oddments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some more items, but these ones are categorized in groups.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnivore.com\/francis\/archives\/000367.html\">Pericles, Prince of Tired Plots<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lyrics to Adam McNaughton's song \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www-cs.canisius.edu\/~salley\/Bard.book\/three.hamlet.html\">Oor Hamlet<\/a>,\" a.k.a. \"The Three-Minute Hamlet\"; apparently it's meant to be sung in a thick Scottish accent, so another site provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeagranoff.com\/lyrics\/Hamlet.htm\">more Scottish lyrics<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read Niven's story \"Chicxulub\" in a recent issue of <cite>Asimov's,<\/cite> and wasn't sure what the title meant, so I looked it up.  Turns out in real life it's the location of the asteroid impact believed (at least by some) to have caused the mass extinction at the K\/T boundary (end of Cretaceous period, beginning of Tertiary), 65 million years ago.  Also turns out there's some amazing stuff about it online:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap000226.html\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a> for 26 February 2000 shows gravity and magnetic field data for the region.  If you turn it upside down, it looks a little like a C-in-circle character, leading me to wonder if perhaps someone was just putting a Copyright stamp on the Earth, to prevent piracy.<\/li>\n<li>The NASA\/UA Space Imagery Center has web pages at the U. Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpl.arizona.edu\/SIC\/impact_cratering\/Chicxulub\/Chicx_title.html\">information about Chicxulub<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>That whole site is worth looking at, but particularly astonishing are the pages on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpl.arizona.edu\/SIC\/impact_cratering\/Chicxulub\/Regional_Effects.html\">regional effects<\/a> (\"Because part of the crater was in a shallow sea, giant tsunamis radiated across the Gulf of Mexico. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. If the impact had occurred in a deep ocean basin, these waves might have been 4 to 5 km high and affected coastlines as far away as 10,000 km.  Because the Chicxulub impact occurred in relatively shallow water, approximately 100 m deep, the waves were probably not nearly as large. One estimate suggests waves that hit the Texas coast were 'only' 50 to 100 m high.\") and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpl.arizona.edu\/SIC\/impact_cratering\/Chicxulub\/Global_effects.html\">global effects<\/a>. (\"Current estimates suggest that the dust made it too dark to see [worldwide] for 1 to 6 months and too dark for photosynthesis for 2 months to 1 year.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.\"  And then there were the greenhouse gases, the acid rain, the ozone layer damage, the massive forest fires, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of movies of note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106961\">Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life<\/a>, a 24-minute film written and directed by Peter (<cite>Local Hero,<\/cite> <cite>Lairrrr of the White Wyrrrrrm,<\/cite> <cite>Dangerous Liaisons,<\/cite> <cite>Neverwhere<\/cite>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0134922\/\">Capaldi<\/a>, starring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001290\/\">Richard E. \"Withnail\" Grant<\/a> (better known lately as the 10th Doctor).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0295949\/\">Escape from It's a Wonderful Life<\/a>, a 1996 TV movie, apparently a redubbed and re-edited version of the original: \"George Bailey is sick of doing the Wonderful Life film and wants to star in action films.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may be familiar with the idea of face-blindness\/prosopagnosia.  I sometimes think that I may have a very very minor form of it, but more likely I'm just not very observant.  Anyway, I find it fascinating.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bill Choisser's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choisser.com\/faceblind\/\">Face Blind!<\/a> site, an online book on the subject (from a gay male point of view) originally published in 1997, with expansions and addenda since then.<\/li>\n<li>Cecilia Burman's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosopagnosia.com\/\">face-blindness site<\/a> features a really excellent page that demonstrates what it's like to be face-blind by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosopagnosia.com\/main\/stones\/index.asp\">introducing you to some stones<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Harvard has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceblind.org\/\">Prosopagnosia Research Center<\/a>.  It includes a page on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceblind.org\/research\/impairments.html\">other recognition impairments<\/a>, some of which I have a vague idea were described in \"Liking What You See: A Documentary\" or maybe in \"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation.\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more items, but these ones are categorized in groups. 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