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.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I saw a sign the other day saying "this area is being videotaped" and wondered if they actually used tape anymore. But there is no one-syllable verb to replace "tape". ("This area is being videoblogged?")

Heck, even "YouTube" is based on obsolete nomenclature. "YouPanel" doesn't have the same ring.

And "cablemodems" don't do any modulation or demodulation.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but most of the stuff I see on YouTube is from 70s TV shows, so I'm okay with that.