Author Archives: Anton

linky goodness

Adventures of Mr Coo, a wacky bit of Flash animation from Basque-land. (Cited by JoAnne Schmitz.) At Languagehat, some interesting brief remarks on the Belgian aristocracy’s efforts to seem less alien to Flanders. Warren Meyer on why libertarians write blogs … Continue reading

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what’s up at Keenspace?

Most (according to casual sample) of the comic strips hosted at Keenspace have had their archives disappear, in whole or in part, this week; as if Keenspace had been taken over by Blogspot.

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where have all the spammers gone?

This week I saw a sudden decline in two kinds of spam: comment spam on this here blog, and referral spam in my HTTP log. I have not done anything recently to improve filtering.

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longchanged

Yesterday I received in change an Irish €.02, whose resemblance (in size and color) to US $.01 is striking.

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cinema 1949

Three Ealing comedies recently became available that I had long wanted to see. Evidently I’m not alone: I waited several weeks for these on Netflix. Alas that the sound on these discs is not as clear as one might hope. … Continue reading

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it ain’t you either, babe

Every few days I check my HTTP log to see who has linked to me. (It is entertaining sometimes too to see what search keywords led here.) The pleasure of that little chore has long been tainted by spammers; I … Continue reading

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it ain’t me, babe!

Some clown is using my address to spam everyone@amherst.edu with what appears to be an account of the bombing of Dresden. Why??

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