From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d1905051513581034e59c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 06:58:50 +1000 From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] MST3k funnies featuring Bell Labs In-Reply-To: <357d32990714078fe0f3f4a6ace541a7@plan9.ucalgary.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <357d32990714078fe0f3f4a6ace541a7@plan9.ucalgary.ca> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4c4b96da-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hilarious. Did you spot the PathStar? brucee On 5/15/05, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > warning: only relation to Plan 9 is historical: >=20 > i'm a fan of the Mistery Science Theatre 3000 show and from time to > time get to watch an episode of two. it's a lesson in movie > appreciation (or depreciation, depending on the point of view) >=20 > anyway, if you're unfamiliar with MST3k here's a short (albeit > fanboy-ish) description of the show and what it tries to accomplish: >=20 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MST3K >=20 > the concept is as follows: the guy and the two robots sitting in the > audience (shadowing the film) are commenting on it, adding their own > dialogue and generally making fun of it. >=20 > the stuff i watched today started with a preview made by the Bell > Telephone Company, introducing their newest telephone inventions in > the 50's or 60's... i thought it'll be nice to show other 9fans what > the future was promised to be. given the commentary by mike and the > robots it only gets funnier. >=20 > mplayer should have no problem playing this in lunix, but beware -- > it's 106mb. >=20 > url: >=20 > http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/bell.avi >=20 > andrey >=20 >