Haunting the net [was: Re: [UA] Short Cons]

[Nick Wedig]

>An encyclopedia entry that gets cited often but is almost impossible to
>track down once, and absolutely impossible to track down twice - (Borges
>wrote something similar to this... Tlalon of Uqbar,

Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertium, you mean?  Other Borges stories are closer to this idea than that story, especially "The Book of Sand", which is about an inifintely long book where you could never find the same page twice (a refinement of the Library of Babel idea)

> or something?), the
>pilot of a series that never got aired, 

Seems I can't go a day without mentioning _American Gods_, but it hints at one point at a fairly sinister explanation of how, whenever you watch a single episode of a televeision series you don't normally watch, it will be the one single episode you've already seen.

Television adepts must be out there in some form, and I bet they'd have all sorts of stuff going on with that phenomena.  (ooo... and watching channels of static until words appear, and other cool bits)

Mr. Teapot
television obsessed mage

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