Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Cloak and Swagger
An auction house just sold Ol' Ben Kenobi's cloak for £54,000.
Which is a rip-off, because the original was destroyed during the explosion of the first Death Star.
The sale of Dr. Who's entire outfit for about £24,600 was a relative bargain, and scientifically plausible considering that Dr. Who had a time machine, most recently used by Pete Townshend et. al. to continue touring in support of their new album.
By the way, did you know that "The Who" was originally a problematic Google search? The words "the" and "who" are both considered "stop words," which were ignored by search algorithms. Now, if you search for a term that contains only stop words, Google will conduct the search. The results for "the who" – just as expected.
But Google hasn't yet figured out "The The" (search results here).
Which is a rip-off, because the original was destroyed during the explosion of the first Death Star.
The sale of Dr. Who's entire outfit for about £24,600 was a relative bargain, and scientifically plausible considering that Dr. Who had a time machine, most recently used by Pete Townshend et. al. to continue touring in support of their new album.
By the way, did you know that "The Who" was originally a problematic Google search? The words "the" and "who" are both considered "stop words," which were ignored by search algorithms. Now, if you search for a term that contains only stop words, Google will conduct the search. The results for "the who" – just as expected.
But Google hasn't yet figured out "The The" (search results here).
Labels: auctions, movies, music
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