Damnation Alley

Hey, there *is* a Zelazny film! Why did no-one tell me? I didn't know till I looked down at the book I was reading and it said "Now a Sensational[1] 20th century fox film".

Admittedly, it doesn't look like I'm missing much, the film converted the antihero Hell Tanner into Jeff Hale, I mean a random all american airforce officer not-Hell Tanner, and decided no post-apocalyptic world was complete without mutant cockroaches.

OTOH, it was a reasonable choice -- one of Zelazney's books that *is* set on earth, without a lot of special effects. As much as I'd like to see Lord of Light, I appreciate it could be tricky[2].

[1] Sensational: I guess bad emotions are technically sensational :)
[2] Blasphemous is often the word used. I'm not sure -- I interpreted it as having the fairly clear message that impersonating gods is bad, mmkay? but I can see others.

Wikipedia links

Last I heard there are ongoing wars on wikipedia between people who link every word in an article (come on, if you're reading about newton, are you really going to need to see a definition of apple?) and those who remove them again. Possibly they should have two[1] categories of link: technical terms related to the issue at hand, and ordinary words you should probably know, but might be curious about[2].

Or has someone who actually wikipedias thought of this?

[1] or more
[2] In fact, nearly everything would fit in the last category, but not quite. Maybe all nouns. But you would want to specify -- eg. apple would go to "apple (fruit)" not "apple (disambiguation)".

Picnic meme

This is a picnic meme.

There will be an LJ picnic on Jesus Green, Cambridge, UK on Saturday the 3rd of September, from around 2pm. We'll meet toward the town end of Jesus Green. Nobody is organising this, it'll just happen. Please turn up, be sensible, bring food and drink, meet new people, have fun.

Copy this invitation into your LJ with a link to this post in picnic_meme. Let's make this a picnic to remember.