What am I compared to the universe?
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Ron Schnell
What is "Dunnet"
Dunnet is a text adventure I wrote in 1983, which became part of Gnu Emacs in 1992. I'm proud to say that it's quite popular, and I get fan mail almost every day. To play it, login to any modern UNIX system and type the following at the command line:
emacs -batch -l dunnet
via driver-aces.com
Mac is included in this- go play it, very cool text advenure.
American Cinematographer Magazine’s List of the 50 Films with the Best Cinematography, 1998-2008
tobia: via erotic-transference: “This is an exhaustive list. They’ve covered more-or-less every brilliantly shot film from the last decade that’s worth a damn. Personal favourites: The Fall, The Man Who Wasn’t There and There Will Be Blood.”
1. Amélie: Bruno Delbonnel, ASC, AFC (2001)
2. Children of Men: Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC (2006)
3. Saving Private Ryan: Janusz Kaminski (1998)
4. There Will Be Blood: Robert Elswit, ASC (2007)
5. No Country for Old Men: Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (2007)
6. Fight Club: Jeff Cronenweth, ASC (1999)
7. The Dark Knight: Wally Pfister, ASC (2008)
8. Road to Perdition: Conrad L. Hall, ASC (2002)
9. Cidade de Deus (City of God): César Charlone, ABC (2002)
10. American Beauty: Conrad L. Hall, ASC (1999)
11. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Deakins)
12. Tie: In the Mood for Love (Christopher Doyle, HKSC, and Mark Li Ping-bin) and Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Navarro, ASC)
13. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS)
14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Ellen Kuras, ASC)
15. Gladiator (John Mathieson, BSC)
16. The Matrix (Bill Pope, ASC)
17. The Thin Red Line (John Toll, ASC)
18. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Kaminski)
19. Slumdog Millionaire (Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC, DFF)
20. Tie: Eyes Wide Shut (Larry Smith, BSC) and Requiem for a Dream (Matthew Libatique, ASC)
21. Kill Bill (Robert Richardson, ASC)
22. Moulin Rouge (Donald M. McAlpine, ASC, ACS)
23. The Pianist (Pawel Edelman, PSC)
24. Hero (Doyle)
25. Black Hawk Down (Slawomir Idziak, PSC)
26. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Deakins)
27. Babel (Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC)
28. Lost In Translation (Lance Acord, ASC)
29. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Peter Pau, HKSC)
30. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Claudio Miranda, ASC)
31. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Deakins)
32. The New World (Lubezki)
33. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez)
34. Atonement (Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC)
35. Munich (Kaminski)
36. The Prestige (Pfister)
37. Memoirs of a Geisha (Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS)
38. The Aviator (Richardson)
39. Zodiac (Harris Savides, ASC)
40. The Insider (Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC)
41. Gangs of New York (Michael Ballhaus, ASC)
42. Tie: Brokeback Mountain (Prieto) and The Fountain (Libatique)
43. The Fall (Colin Watkinson)
44. The Passion of the Christ (Caleb Deschanel, ASC)
45. Snow Falling on Cedars (Richardson)
46. House of Flying Daggers (Xiaoding Zhao)
47. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Eric Adkins)
There are some absolute awesome movies on this list, I hope to eventually see them all!
Six Writers on Their Favorite Reading -- New York Magazine
If You Liked My Book, You’ll Love These
SCIENCE FICTION
William Gibson
SF’s current visionary has a new novel, Zero History (Putnam), due out September 7.
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Tiger! Tiger! (1956)
By Alfred Bester
It’s also known as The Stars My Destination. My favorite literary expression of mid-century Manhattan, and I doubt I’d have written without having read it.
Dhalgren (1975)
By Samuel R. Delany
It won’t work unless you can allow it to become your head for a few weeks; it helps if you’re rather young. Closest thing I know to a great “sixties” novel.
Arslan (1976)
By M. J. Engh
A very different sort of alien invasion: America as Earth. One of the best works of science fiction you probably haven’t heard of.
The Crystal World (1966)
By J. G. Ballard
It’s hard to pick just one Ballard, but you could certainly start with this.
The Forever War (1974)
By Joe Haldeman
The most adult and intelligent novel of military science fiction.
Pavane (1968)
By Keith Roberts
The Roman Catholic Church still rules England in 1968, Protestantism having been destroyed in the wake of the 1588 assassination of Queen Elizabeth.
Random Acts of Senseless Violence (1993)
By Jack Womack
A heart-rending and perpetually more likely near-future Manhattan.
Great Work of Time (1991)
By John Crowley
Vast and all-encompassing, it’s a novel magically disguised as a novella.
Holy Fire (1996)
By Bruce Sterling
A glacially logical yet emotionally intelligent extrapolation of age-extension technology. Also brilliant on bohemias.
334 (1972)
By Thomas M. Disch
Everyday life in Manhattan, 2025, at 334 East 11th Street, a vast housing project. I think of it whenever anyone seriously suggests my work is dystopian.
via nymag.com
A great selection of books, by a great author. The Stars My Destination, is a personal favorite, even when I read it now, it feels as fresh as if it were written just yesterday.
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