Chris Nicholson's Writing Weblog
November 29, 2004 • Monday
In the category of People With Interesting Ways to Kill Time, here's a website to check out: Star Wars ASCIImation. The site features almost the whole of the film Star Wars animated with ASCII text. You'll have to see it yourself to appreciate the obscene number of mind-numbing hours that went into creating it. And it was all done by one person: Simon Jansen of New Zealand. Bravo, Simon.
There's a great new article in American Journalism Review about the challenges that female sportswriters face in their male-dominated field. "Offensive Interference," by Sherry Ricchiardi, explores issues ranging from locker-room abuse to glass ceilings to reader acceptance. This quote from the article best summarizes one of the key issues:
"Female sportswriters often have been targets, says [sports sociologist Mary Jo] Kane, because they have 'backstage access' to one of the most powerful and revered symbols of male superiority in American culture, coupled with a public voice, through the media, to criticize men. That, she concludes, places them in a unique position regarding the power relationship between the sexes."
PNC Advisors has released its annual holiday economic analysis of how much it would cost to buy your truelove all the gifts from the song "The 12 Days of Christmas." In their press release, PNC reports the 2004 cost — if you were to buy everything on the 12-day shopping list, from the 12 drummers drumming to the one partridge in the one pear tree (12 times over) — as $66,334. That kind of makes me happy that I don't have a truelove this Christmas.
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I'm a few weeks behind on this one, but I just learned about a new television series called Drawn Together. It's an animated reality TV show. Brilliant.
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