Author Archives: Anton

The Incredibles . .

. . is totally swell. I shall have to see it again. Fannish notes: In one brief shot we see what looks like the personal fliers of L Neil Smith’s Pallas. Two bystanders could be Lee & Kirby, or not.

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it’s easy for puppets to keep a straight face

Astonishing language for children’s television. I knew British television was more liberal, but really! (cited by Nev Dull) Later same day: Er well sorta. Here’s the straight dope.

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JotD

Get the system to work for you.

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can’t resist a new toy

I’ve added a background to my front page. Does it make the text harder to read?

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a better mousetrap

Ballot Access News: Instant-Runoff Voting Makes Gains

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caught up

In three weeks I have gone through all fourteen hundred odd entries to this here work in progress, deleted a few, cleaned up the rest, corrected some broken links, given each entry a title (the hardest part), and classified them. … Continue reading

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by zombies’ bootstraps

Diagrams of Heinlein’s time travel stories (cited by Travis)

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