Author Archives: Anton

let’s not exaggerate

It’s tempting to say that the jail sentence of Alan Shadrake confirms his allegation, but no; it doesn’t show that Singapore’s judiciary is corrupt, merely that the Republic of Singapore is a coward.

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free peeks by appointment

I got a webcam for my birthday. If you want to see what I’m like in realtime, it can be arranged. I don’t promise to scintillate.

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link cautiously

Jonas discovered that, if you write a comment here with three links, you’ll be taken to a 403 page without explanation. I haven’t found the configuration setting that does this.

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webcomics update

Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life came back to life in July, after 15 months dormant. That doesn’t happen every day!

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toward a graceful imitation of the crude

I’ve long had an idea to design “outline” typefaces which, at appropriate low resolution, would mimic certain bitmap fonts that have sentimental resonance. The orange discs are the original dots, of course. The blue arcs are least-squares fits (linear, quadratic) … Continue reading

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superstition and the market

The local Humane Society has such a hard time placing black cats that it offers a deep discount on the adoption fee.

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yet another flavor of referral spam

In September, some clown created “user profiles” on thousands of sites in the names jennyl8221, jamessylar33, alberty788, melvinwong522, jinnlost5, rickdcurry82, jeffsmith7223, davemartial223. How do I know this? My HTTP log shows two thousand hits (most of them from customers of … Continue reading

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