The color of the sky

[dougo]

Bruce Sterling's article in the Washington Post uses the phrase "the sky was the color of a dead television channel", referring to a similar line in William Gibson's Neuromancer. Ironically, on most TVs nowadays, tuning to a dead channel gets you a solid blue screen.

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[dkw.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice Wikipedia page. I remember having (in the 1960's) a portable AM radio that proudly proclaimed "7 transistors"! To "micromicrofarads" they should add "cycles per second".