John Carpenter - They Live

Remembering John Carpenter’s "They Live"Do any of the great movie fight scenes stick in the memory as much as Nada taking on Frank in an alleyway in 1988's They Live? Is Roddy Piper and Keith David’s epic fight scene in John Carpenter’s They Live the greatest of all time? Granted, there have been some epic one on ones over the years: Neo versus Agent Smith in The Matrix, Indiana Jones versus The German Mechanic in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Bruce Lee versus Han in Enter the Dragon. But do a...

Octopuses, AI, and the Future of the Nation State: In Conversation with Ray Nayler

Click here to watch the full video interview on our new YouTube channel. MB: Hi Ray. Your book The Mountain in the Sea explores themes of environmentalism, AI, and interspecies communication. What made you start looking into octopus communication specifically, and how did that link to AI for you? How did you connect those two threads together? RN: So when I first was conceptualizing the book, my first idea was that it was going to be a book about communicating with the octopus, prim...

Lau Kar-leung - 8 Diagram Pole Fighter - The

In the formidable stable of action directors who Shaw Brothers Studio employed throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, perhaps the greatest was Lau Kar-leung. Having previously established himself as the studio’s finest martial arts choreographer, Lau began to helm features in the mid-‘70s and produced a string of classics, most notably the wuxia staple 36th Chamber of Shaolin, that blended complex choreography, bullishly confronted themes, and antic comedy. His penultimate film for the studio, 1984’s...

Doctor Octopus (person) by disarmed42 - Everything2.com

Doctor Octopus (person) See all of Doctor Octopus, no other writeups in this node. There have been two Doctors Octopus in the Marvel Comics universe. The better known of the two, Dr. Otto Octavius, first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #3, written by Stan Lee with art by Steve Ditko.Dr. Otto Octavius was a brilliant nuclear physicist who had invented a four-armed device that he used to manipulate radioactive elements. The arms telescoped to varying lengths and were incredibly stron...

Knowledge as Taste - and sentience as experiences

8088 (thing) by Rancid_Pickle - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 8088 (thing) See all of 8088, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Rancid_Pickle Tue Oct 10 2000 at 4:12:33 Before the 8088 The 8086 by Intel was the first 16-bit microprocessor. It had twice the data throughput of older 8-bit systems. The 24 registers inside the chip were expanded to 16 bits as well. The 8086 had 20 address lines, and could address 1,048,576 bytes (or 1 Meg) of memory. The 8086 was available in 5, 6, 8 and 1...

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For YouYour LibraryLive RadioPodcastsArtist RadioGenresNewsFeaturesEventsContestsPhotosLog In|Sign UpGet The AppUpgradeMoreFor YouYour LibraryLive RadioPodcastsArtist RadioPlaylistsGenresNewsFeaturesEventsContestsPhotosFeedbackWhy February 8th Matters In Rock HistoryBy Dave BasnerFebruary 7, 2020AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Email AppShare to MoreIt’s February 8th and here are some reasons why this day matters in rock history: In 1969, Eric Clapton, Ginger ...

The spaghetti western and once upon a Time in the West

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