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# why do all the pics of the mona lisa on teh webs
have that green stripe just left of top centre?
it's not on the original, as far as i remember

/dull-as-shite blog
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:11, archived)
# sssshhhh!
don't give dan brown any new stupid ideas!
(I helped save b3ta! Kaiser, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:13, archived)
# dan brown has never had a new idea.
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:15, archived)
# i've read all four of his books
they're entertaining to read, to be sure... but they all have the same plot skeletons (ESPECIALLY angels and demons vs. the da vinci code)

Digital Fortress was pretty good.
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:17, archived)
# i enjoyed the da vinci code.
it was harmelss airport fun.
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:23, archived)
# I thought it had:
- a fun if unoriginal premise
- a cracking plot (for, as you say, an airport book)

unfotunately it was:
- so badly written that at times I dropped out of the literary trance that books drop you into because I noticed a particularly poor piece of prose. I am by no means a great writer or particularly discerning reader, but that book had some shit passages in it.

please take a ticket and wait for number to be called if you wish to laugh at the words "shit passages"
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Wed 16 May 2007, 9:15, archived)
# "Digital Fortress was pretty good"
i never thought i'd ever see or hear that sentence.

the problem with Dan Brown books, is that he has no idea how any technology works. therefore all his books are riddled with errors regarding computers.
(coobeastie Used to Be in Evil Gazebo, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:29, archived)
# like this:
www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-127
???
(I helped save b3ta! Kaiser, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:31, archived)
# ah
"People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data. (See the opening credits for The Hunt For Red October) "

anachronistic at the time... but "hibernate" on any windows laptop now.
(coobeastie Used to Be in Evil Gazebo, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:36, archived)
# the most amazing thing
is how they never use the space bar
(I helped save b3ta! Kaiser, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:38, archived)
# or for that matter the mouse.
most of it is tapping on keyboards with no thought for where the letters actually are...
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:39, archived)
# watched Red October last night
the most glaring error in it is at "Heathrow"...

all the cars have British plates, but are driving on the wrong side of the road!

another one from war games: after he severs the connection with joshua, his screen keeps updating the time to launch.
(coobeastie Used to Be in Evil Gazebo, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:41, archived)
# Clearly the internal clock form his workstations...
...is calculating the time based on the launch time.

How his display turns from raster to vector is the real mystery. Uber leet 80s video card?
(I helped save b3ta! Jimvin dropped plates on your arse at, Wed 16 May 2007, 8:27, archived)
# meh, I'm not interested in factual accuracy
it's dan brown. the shameless appearance of factual accuracy is what's important


s'why I always point and laugh at fundamentalists that protested the da vinci code movie... it's just fucking fiction
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:51, archived)
# just like the bible then?
(coobeastie Used to Be in Evil Gazebo, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:56, archived)
# haha this
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Wed 16 May 2007, 3:15, archived)
# Yeah, it's fiction
Problem is, some people actually believe it and get the wrong idea.
(I helped save b3ta! idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Wed 16 May 2007, 3:33, archived)
# it's not dan brown's fault that these people are misguided and stupid
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Wed 16 May 2007, 5:16, archived)
# are you refering to the bible, dan brown or both?
?
(I helped save b3ta! evilamnesiac says fuck you Prince, Wed 16 May 2007, 9:49, archived)
# A rugged male diver/engineer
teams up with a beautiful female scientist?

to save the world from a conspiracy!
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:32, archived)
# involving the government AND the church!
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Wed 16 May 2007, 5:31, archived)
# Haha had to google that.
Now I know who you mean... I don't think there's any danger of Dan Brown having any new ideas, since he didn't have any of those ideas in the first place. They were all copied from other sources.

Edit: dammit, mindpissed
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:16, archived)
# That's not dull
it's a interesting question. I do think the original is damaged there. Some pics on the net show what looks like a crease, crack or tear just there, and others show the green stripe.
My guess: someone ineptly tried to digitally remove the crease and the badly shopped copy has been propogated over the web.
I'd be genuinely interested to know the real reason though.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:15, archived)
# Was that not in the original?
Shit.
i'll have to amend the 4,000 forgeries in the cellar
(I helped save b3ta! Want Bartender Time gentlemen please.., Wed 16 May 2007, 2:18, archived)
# hmm
clicky

somewhat non green damage

guess it's a case of someone trying to be clever

edit: meanwhile erm..
yes... quite


actually, google image searching for it brings up subtly different effects :D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:24, archived)
# do they have "this is a fake" scrawled in marker pen under the paint?
see Doctor Who "City of Death"
(coobeastie Used to Be in Evil Gazebo, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:32, archived)
# maybe from a flash from a camera?
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:16, archived)