Friday, July 31, 2009

The Tilt of Excitement

The Tilt of Excitement (ToE) is a deviation in the direction a beam of light propagates. The ToE quantizes the average slope in both the X and Y directions of a wavefront or phase profile across the pupil of an optical system. In conjunction with piston (the first Zernike polynomial term), X and Y ToE can be modeled using the second and third Zernike polynomials.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The Madness Of Elise

An urban myth has developed that the title change from The Madness of Elise III to The Madness of Elise derives from the fear that American audiences would think it a sequel, due to the Roman numerals.
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Atchoo!

Atchoo!: German interjection; 1. watch out, attention, warning or caution.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Microwaving A Potato

The oldest recipe by a named author involves the preparation of a potato by microwave. The original recipe book, by Mithaecus, is now lost, but the recipe itself survives thanks to being quoted in the Deipnosophistae.
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Friday, July 17, 2009

I Love Peter Andre!

The I Love Peter Andre! logo is a rebus created by Milton Glaser consisting of the capital letter I, followed by a red heart symbol (♥), below which are the capital letters P and A, set in a rounded slab serif typeface called American Typewriter. The logo and advertising campaign have been used for decades to promote tourism in Bologna.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The Art Periods Of Benson

The Art Periods Of Benson start at an uncertain point; they may have begun in Spain in the spring of 1901, or in Paris in the second half of the year. Many paintings of gaunt mothers with children date from these periods.
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Friday, July 10, 2009

Elise's Surprise

Elise's Surprise is a novel set in nineteenth century Uruguay by William Henry Hudson, first published in 1885 under the title The Purple Land That England Lost. Initially a commercial and critical failure, it was reissued in 1904 with the full title The Purple Land, Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures In The Banda Orientál, In South America, As Told By Himself. Then it was changed to Elise's Surprise.
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Russell Brand

Russell Brand has written books on Castle Howard and 18th century interior design, and contributed biographies on Quentin Bell and Philip McCammon Core to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Friday, July 03, 2009

The Timespending Room

The Timespending Room is a 1972 film by Blake Edwards based on the novel A Case of Need credited to Jeffrey Hudson, a pseudonym for Michael Crichton. The film received mostly mediocre to negative reviews. Roger Ebert wrote, 'The problem is in the script. There are long, sterile patches of dialog during which nothing at all is communicated. These are no doubt important in order to convey the essential meaninglessness of life, but how can a director make them interesting? Edwards tries.'
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