Tuesday, 19 August 2008 links for 2008-08-19
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The article claims that 'Emily,' the woman in the animation, "is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' - which refers to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness." Over half the comments claim that her eyes look "dead" or that she is "like a talking corpse," but I was pretty convinced.
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Worst prose of 2008. The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. I particularly like "Joanne watched her fellow passengers - a wizened man reading about alchemy; an oversized bearded man-child; a haunted, bespectacled young man with a scar; and a gaggle of private school children who chatted ceaselessly about Latin and flying around the hockey pitch and the two-faced teacher who they thought was a witch - there was a story here, she decided."
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