AIRPLANE DOUBLE FEATURES PART 2
GEE, THERE HAVE BEEN A BUNCH of good airplane flicks, whether viewed one by one or paired as double features. Here in Part 2, we serve a stint in World … Continue reading
AIRPLANE DOUBLE FEATURES PART 1
READER TOM ASKS, “How about an article on flying films?” Readers Bob and Andrew each responded with favorites. Indeed, here in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow is a … Continue reading
DOUBLE FEATURES PART 2
YESTERDAY WE CONSIDERED movie double features, both inexplicable and otherwise. Today in Part 2, there’s memorable endurance viewing, together with double features of operatic nature. Endurance Viewing. Here’s a double … Continue reading
DOUBLE FEATURES PART 1
THOSE OF A CERTAIN AGE may remember the motion picture phenomenon of double features. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits of exceptional twin billings, some … Continue reading
JANE’S ART PART 2
YESTERDAY, TIDBITS FOCUSED ON SEVERAL ADS from Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1919. Today in Part 2, we enjoy the high level of technical illustration in this particular Jane’s. Attributions. … Continue reading
JANE’S ART PART 1
A FELLOW NAMED JANE WAS a fin-de-siecle gamer with a special interest in naval battles. Wikipedia recounts, “He first began to sketch warships in his teens, and was notable in … Continue reading
COME SI DICE SPRITE IN ITALIANO?
THE QUESTION ABOVE (“HOW TO SAY SPRITE IN ITALIAN?”) has a perfect response in “Innocenti,” pronounced “I-no-CHEN-ty.” R&T concurred in May 1964: “A newcomer among the sports car currently offered … Continue reading
THE JAPAN YEAR BOOK 1918
NATIONAL “YEAR BOOKS” AREN’T THE SORT OF THING that a tourist totes around. Instead, they’re compendia identifying a country’s territory, its government, its people, its commerce, its general goings-on for … Continue reading
“FAIR USE” AND A.I. PART 2
COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL POPPING UP in generative A.I. is causing legal complications of the Fair Use Doctrine. Here in Part 2, more tidbits are gleaned from Paula Samuelson’s “Generative AI Meets … Continue reading
“FAIR USE” AND A.I. PART 1
THE USE OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS scooping up copyrighted material has become a complex legal issue. Paula Samuelson’s article “Generative AI Meets Copyright” addresses fascinating aspects of this in AAAS … Continue reading
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