A Noise Within is an American theatrical company performing classic works of the European canon as well as American playwrights, in rotating repertory. It is based in Pasadena, California.

A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a literary device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of a second story (within the first one). Multiple layers of stories within stories are sometimes called nested stories.

<communications> 1. Spurious characters due to electrical <a href="">noisea> in a communications link, especially an <a href="">EIA-232a> serial connection. Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or <a href="">crosstalka> from other circuits, electrical storms, <a href="">cosmic raysa>, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires. 2. Any chunk of data in a file or elsewhere that looks like the results of electrical line noise. 3. Text that is theoretically a readable text or program source but employs <a href="">syntaxa> so bizarre that it looks like line noise. Yes, there are languages this ugly. The canonical example is <a href="">TECOa>, whose input syntax is often said to be indistinguishable from line noise. Other non-<a href="">WYSIWYGa> editors, such as <a href="">Multicsa> "<a href="">qeda>" and <a href="">Unixa> "<a href="">eda>", in the hands of a real hacker, also qualify easily, as do deliberately <a href="">obfuscatea>d languages such as <a href="">INTERCALa>. [<a href="">Jargon Filea>] (1994-12-22)