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September 01, 2004
Abba was I ere I saw Abba
OMG, two weeks has passed without a single entry! And I thought my 1-week hiatus will give me ample time to write something on Angels and Demons (A&D) as I promised...
Okay, A&D follows the footsteps of Robert Langdon into discovering the reappearance of the millennia-old Illuminati clan, a secret society formed by scientists long time ago. The story starts with a murder and a stolen weapon that threatens to wipe out the Vatican City more effectively than a nuclear bomb. As a typical Dan Brown's book, the plot is full of twists and turns that will make you gasp at the ending. Can't say more here, or else I'll spoil the fun. Grab it! It's a must-read.
To whet your appetize, I personally find that the ambigrams featured in A&D are deviously ingenious. To the uninitiated, an ambigram (coined by Douglas Hofstadter, College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science and Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Psychology in Indiana University, Bloomington) is a generic term for inversion, a word or name written so it reads in more than one way. In the instance of A&D, the ambigrams (7 of them) can be read upside down. My interest lead me to this webpage which features animated inversions. Just click on GALLERY to see the links to some 58 cool animations.
Posted by peixin at September 1, 2004 02:01 PM
Comments
shouldn't it be Able Was I Ere I Saw Alba ?
Posted by: MunKit at September 2, 2004 02:39 PM
typo.. last word of previous sentence should be Elba
Posted by: MunKit at September 2, 2004 02:43 PM
isn't ABBA a group of four singers?
Posted by: panserborne at September 2, 2004 03:38 PM
Alba or Abba; it still makes a good palindromic. Paserborne, nice seeing you commenting. It'll be even nicer to see you stop being a blog lurker on my site.
Posted by: zx at September 4, 2004 04:08 PM
lol munkit, guess u r right! I can't recall it correctly.. thanx man..
Posted by: px at September 7, 2004 01:40 PM
bro, how do u know 3rd bro lurks around ur site? u have a tracker?
Posted by: px at September 7, 2004 01:41 PM
i do post comments on your blog. Sometimes maybe.
Posted by: panserborne at September 7, 2004 06:12 PM
Yeah... I have a super cool tracker installed. It knows who visits my site, what he/she is wearing at the time of visit, how hot he/she is on the am-i-hot meter and stuff like that.
Posted by: zx at September 7, 2004 09:16 PM