Author Archives: Anton

one at a time

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 01 by Anton

Got a spam today (or rather almost got it: Pobox’s filter rejected it) whose Subject line is: abuse, destructPon or wanton takWng of a ljfe. Qt vs a crome no less than burnbng the Mona LFsa, for there Cs always … Continue reading →

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that’s all she staked

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 01 by Anton

So now I’ve seen the very last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Gotta say the final season drags more than a bit, because of a near absence of the lighter “Monster of the Week” episodes that, in most seasons, … Continue reading →

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go read

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 November 30 by Anton

Radley Balko: Who Is Being ‘Unserious’ on the Terror War? They hate our policies, not our freedom The Case for a Partitioned Iraq

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heard on the wind

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 November 30 by Anton

Gary Becker and Richard Posner have a blog (any day now)

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three extropian items

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 November 30 by Anton

Mike Linksvayer attended a lecture on “Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases During the Course of the Twentieth Century”. Perry Metzger shares a report (pdf) on infrastructure in Somalia. (Later: Michael Tennant comments on it at Strike The Root.) … Continue reading →

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pointless papers please

Posted on Friday, 2004 November 26 by Anton

I[dentifying]D[ocument]s and the illusion of security, op-ed by Bruce Schneier. Identification and profiling don’t provide very good security, and they do so at an enormous cost. Dropping ID checks completely, and engaging in random screening where appropriate, is a far … Continue reading →

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boarders repelled

Posted on Thursday, 2004 November 25 by Anton

Some little while ago, I changed the name of a file used in the comment process, and submission of comments by spambots ceased. Comments are now open, until another wave breaches the battlements. I’m betting that the number of good … Continue reading →

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