Snow Crash

и о переводчиках :-)

"Want one zode, one kicker, fillerup," Eliot says. Suddenly Bruce Lee gets real serious and actually considers it. "Scope clause, chomsayen? Gauge and gag. Ombwas scope like twelves to me, hahaha." Fisheye speaks up on his own. "No, no, four-tens, totally!"

hi-fi sound

Где бы почитать краткий обзор современного состояния дел? Про всякие там оптические / коаксиальные / цифровые входы-выходы, 5.1 и 6.1 форматы, dsp и проч. А то мои знания сейчас ограничиваются тем, что в стереосигнале есть два канала, подающихся на правую и левую колонку соответственно.

words of the day

Revelry
n. Boisterous merrymaking.

Boisterous
adj. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury.

Tumultuous
adj. Conducted with disorder; boisterous.

how americans nuked aleuts

The Cannikin nuclear test conducted on November 6, 1971 cost over $200 million and was the largest underground nuclear explosion in U.S. history. The 730 underground nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. produced a total yield of 37 megatons, 18 and Cannikin's 5 megaton yield alone represents 14 percent of the total. The purpose of the Cannikin Project was to test the Spartan anti-ballistic missile (ABM) warhead.