A metaprime example is something that IS an example of itself in a self-referential way. Metaprime examples can be words themselves, or names, or names of things, or things themselves. Metaprime examples can be ideas or objects, abstract or literal, metalanguage or existential. They can be intentional or un. Sometimes they make you laugh, and usually they make you dizzy if you think about them too long!
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Friday, August 29, 2014
Dirty Harry Toschi
From www.cracked.com
Interesting coincidence: I just watched Zodiac a couple of days ago.
That film actually portrays the character Toschi attending a showing of Dirty Harry. The real Toschi worked as an advisor on Zodiac, which means at some point the real Toschi attended a screening of a film portraying him, played by an actor, attending a screening of a different film portraying him, played by a different actor.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article/99_5-badass-movie-characters-you-didnt-know-were-real-people/#ixzz3BmkTTZ8T
5 Badass Movie Characters You Didn't Know Were Real People
Interesting coincidence: I just watched Zodiac a couple of days ago.
That film actually portrays the character Toschi attending a showing of Dirty Harry. The real Toschi worked as an advisor on Zodiac, which means at some point the real Toschi attended a screening of a film portraying him, played by an actor, attending a screening of a different film portraying him, played by a different actor.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article/99_5-badass-movie-characters-you-didnt-know-were-real-people/#ixzz3BmkTTZ8T
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Orwell estate hits back at Amazon's corporate 'doublespeak'
http://www.businessinsider.com/george-orwell-quote-amazon-hachette-battle-2014-8
Internet retailer accused of using tactics from Orwell's 1984 in war of words with the publisher Hachette