2006 1

Cats are fooled by HDTV

Cats are fooled by HDTV. Our cat tends to ignore normal TV completely. Guess HDTV looks real enough. Comments Dhar 19 Jan 2006 2:29 pm: I see you have given Ender’s Game 5 stars. Have you read Dune? You might like that too. S Anand 20 Jan 2006 11:59 am: I HAVE read Dune. Thought it was quite different, but I didn’t like it as much as Ender’s Game, though. I started off on Dragonlance, but gave up mid-way. Now I’m reading Terry Pratchett. SP 23 Jan 2006 4:13 pm: For more than one reason, i dont like Terry Pratchett, though I have read a lot of his books.. Always feel he’s ripped off Tolkien. Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, Dune are all pretty good. S Anand 23 Jan 2006 9:46 pm: Haven’t tried the Dark Tower series. Will give that a shot. Dhar 24 Jan 2006 3:12 am: Errr… Pratchett’s books are a work of parody. I wouldn’t be too surprised to find passages which seem to be “lifted” out of works of Tolkien and others… S Anand 24 Jan 2006 5:44 pm: Haven’t read enough to spot lifted passages… let me see I can spot them :-) Dhar 25 Jan 2006 8:45 am: Check the Annotated Terry Pratchett file.

2005 2

Sound effects

It’s interesting how Steven Spielberg created his sound effects in movies. For example, in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy’s whip is the treated sound of a jet taking off; the punches in fist fights are the result of bashing leather jackets with baseball bats; and the rolling boulder rumble is a Honda station wagon coasting down a gravel road mixed with a rocket blast-off. … or in E.T. The Extra Terrestrial ...

2002 2

Dogs prefer Bach to Britney

Dogs prefer Bach to Britney. So do I.

Meows of cats

A study on the meows of cats.