Author Archives: Anton

a better mousetrap

Posted on Monday, 2004 November 08 by Anton

Ballot Access News: Instant-Runoff Voting Makes Gains

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caught up

Posted on Saturday, 2004 November 06 by Anton

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

Posted on Saturday, 2004 November 06 by Anton

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

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fashions change

Posted on Friday, 2004 November 05 by Anton

Some of you are familiar with referral spam. The spammer issues HTTP requests for pages of yours, giving the advertiser’s address as the source of the link; you look at your HTTP log and say to yourself “whoopee, there’s a … Continue reading →

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secession, anyone?

Posted on Friday, 2004 November 05 by Anton

Joe Sobran’s view of Lincoln is more charitable than that of (say) Neil Smith or Thomas DiLorenzo, not that that’s saying much, but he still calls the war a tragic blunder. Given the timing of that column (October 7), I … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Thursday, 2004 November 04 by Anton

Thomas Babington Macaulay, quoted in The Economist Oct.30 p.48 If men are to wait for liberty till they become good and wise in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.