Interesting Links for 18-04-2021

[andrewducker]

Wind power experts expect wind energy costs to decline up to 35% by 2035

(tags:windpower thefuture viaDanielDWilliam )

SMS can be trivially hijacked

(tags:security and phones )

Most phone and internet providers have no idea how their network is run - because they let third parties (frequently in non trusted countries) run them.

(tags:outsourcing China Europe USA network phones internet Doom )

The people we wonder about who lived & died millennia ago also wondered about the people who lived & died millennia before them

(tags:history poetry uk )

Colin the Caterpillar and the Art of War - why it is sometimes sensible not to enforce your legal rights

(tags:intellectual_property MarksAndSpencer cake )

What's the most convincing imaginary work of art?

(tags:art fiction )

The Muppets' secret weapon doesn't work in the Disney era

(tags:Muppets )

When freeze-dried food took Britain by storm

(tags:UK food history )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I've done work on my 17th century people's view of those who lived hundreds of years before them and it's fascinating stuff.

The most convincing imaginary work of art

[anna_wing]

Obviously, the original "The Princess Bride", by S Morgenstern...

I used to buy freeze-dried venison for my cats, until they decided one day that they didn't like it any more...

Re: The most convincing imaginary work of art

[andrewducker]

Cats are very fussy! Annoying bundles of fluff that they are.

And yes, excellent example!

[calimac]

Is it an imaginary work of art if it actually exists, created for the actual work of art in which it has its fictional existence? Or, considering that most of the examples offered are that way, is it an imaginary work of art if it doesn't actually exist?

[andrewducker]

An excellent question!

So a song which exists in media where you get to hear it clearly still exists, even when it's not in the same societal position as it is in the fiction.

But one which is merely described in a book is different.

And something like "the original version of The Princess Bride" is different again.

Clearly we need a classification system!

[snippy]

I think it is still an imaginary work of art, because its existence is dependent on the work of art of which it is a part.

[simont]

Is that the first ever appearance of the tag "and"? :-)

[andrewducker]

It is. Because I'd been awake since a child decided that "light outside" meant "okay to go and talk to the parents"and typed something stupid.

So I think I've now removed it from Dreamwidth and Livejournal. Left it in Pinboard mostly through laziness (and harassment by aforementioned children).