Some highlights of Na’vi gives us a brief look at the language spoken by the inhabitants of Pandora, in James Cameron’s Avatar. It was created by Paul Frommer from USC’s Marshall School of Business. He gives the Language Log an overview of the phonetics and phonology behind the language.
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The Language of Avatar
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December 27 2009, 5:15am | Comments »
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Dog with a pipe
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An awesome photo from The National Library of Wales photostream. That is all.
December 26 2009, 5:30pm | Comments »
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dd-wrt - Unleash Your Router
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December 26 2009, 5:23pm | Comments »
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Space battle physics
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The Physics of Space Battles. It won’t really be like the dogfights or naval style battles in our scifi books, movies and television shows. In principle, yes, your enemy could come at you from any direction at all. In practice, though, [they] are going to do no such thing. At least, not until someone invents an FTL drive, and we can actually pop our battle fleets into existence anywhere near our enemies. The marauding space fleets are going to be governed by orbit dynamics — not just of their own ships in orbit around planets and suns, but those planets’ orbits. For the same reason that we have Space Shuttle launch delays, we’ll be able to tell exactly what trajectories our enemies could take between planets: the launch window.
December 26 2009, 3:29pm | Comments »
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The decade in photos
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The Big Picture has a good collection representing the decade in news photography.
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December 26 2009, 12:28pm | Comments »
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Making music
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Making Prodigy’s “Smack my bitch up”. Pretty cool to see how the song is constructed, makes me believe I can sit down and bang out the next great club hit.
December 24 2009, 10:04pm | Comments »
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First FontFont specimen
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5 Dutch Type Designers was the first FontFont specimen, published in 1990. There’s a PDF of the original Dutch version available for download, as well as some commentary and recollections.
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December 17 2009, 6:12pm | Comments »
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Alice as mathematical satire
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The absurdity in Alice in Wonderland is often attributed to drugs or a dark trip into the subconscious. For her PhD work, Melanie Bayley examined some of the most popular scenes from a mathematical perspective, which is summed up in Alice’s adventures in algebra. Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Caroll) was a rather conservative mathematician, who disagreed with many of the new mathematical theories emerging during the 19th century. The madness of Wonderland, I believe, reflects Dodgson’s views on the dangers of this new symbolic algebra. Alice has moved from a rational world to a land where even numbers behave erratically. I don’t imagine that Tim Burton’s new Alice in Wonderland will delve too deeply into mathematical theory.
December 17 2009, 11:08am | Comments »
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