Author Archives: Anton

how about them links, eh?

I laughed aloud. Stefan Molyneux on voting No one could have predicted the housing bubble pop, right?

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a futile protest

Charlie Stross, interviewed in H+ magazine, mentions in passing . . . the more socially dysfunctional libertarians (who are convinced that if the brakes on capitalism were off, they’d somehow be teleported to the apex of the food chain in place of … Continue reading

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because you asked for it, or because you didn’t

retro MacOS theme for WordPress. I’m pretty sure this is before it was called MacOS, that’s how old it is. (Hat tip to Bill Detty.)

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Takana go goth

See Takana. The 306 figures shown there can be reduced to 45 by rotation and reflection. I fitted a polynomial curve to each partial path, and superimposed them.

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it’s a post, ain’t it?

a very clever picture — clean, but be warned, much of that site is NSFW. Bon mot from Sheldon Richman: Advocates of the free market are sometimes parodied for their seemingly all-purpose answer to any problem: Let the market handle … Continue reading

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to make a mark

Some work of fiction, possibly Varley’s Steel Beach, mentions a service called First Footprints that takes tourists to untrodden parts of the Moon. I’d pay extra for a temporary inflated tent so as to make bare footprints.

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Martian months

Most proposed calendars for Mars have 24 months, and various systems have been offered to name them. Here’s one more: use the names of the 24 brightest stars, in order of longitude right ascension (relative to the rotation axis of … Continue reading

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