9 Aug 2005
While putting together yesterday’s podcast on zoetrope I came across today’s word- heliotrope. Heliotrope is a noun with several definitions. One is a purple or violet color. Another heliotrope is a surveying tool for civil engineers and map makers. It allows them to focus a beam of sunlight and signal a fellow surveyor up to [...]
7 Aug 2005
Zoetrope in motion Originally uploaded by tempo. On a recommendation from Michael Geohegan I watched the Francis Ford Coppola movie the Conversation. Great movie. Frequent listeners of this podcast know I enjoy reading the credits. Well the credits for the Conversation include the name of Coppola’s production company Zoetrope. What a beautiful word. And a [...]
1 Aug 2005
Today’s word, Potemkin, is an entertaining political term. I have seen it on Boingboing.net many times. Recently it appeared in a post about the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin was an 18th century Russian military officer and politician. Who was rumored to have built fake villages along the banks of the Dnieper [...]