Author Archives: Anton

16 million colors

Nearly eight hours in the making, here it is: all the 24-bit colors in a tasteful, tilable fractal arrangement — 16million.png.gz (1 megabyte). And since Mads asked for it, the Python sourcecode: two files. Another way to flatten the color … Continue reading

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even better than a pony!

spam title of the day: geosynchronous pickup truck

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go Hillsdale!

The first letter in this week’s Economist is from Nikolai Wenzel, assistant professor of economics at Hillsdale College, who says in part: . . . as of 2004 only 55% of America’s health spending was private . . . . this 45% does not capture … Continue reading

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unseemly small world

I got a spam for Viagra entitled unseemly nation, and 4 minutes later a Korean spam entitled RE: unseemly tomato.

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links without comment

time flows differently in the funnies (except Gasoline Alley and For Better or For Worse) how to argue with a libertarian (Degrees of Freedom) arguments against state support for schools, including some that I had not encountered before

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Takana

I had the idea to design a fantasy script from combinations of a small repertoire of features: namely, subsets of this set of twelve segments. Using a fixed number of segments gives some built-in error-detection. There are 924 subsets of … Continue reading

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the trouble with imported cars

Amara Graps writes: “Not being a blogger, myself, I’m seeing if the bloggers I know want to pick up this story I wrote.” What happened to Bush’s Cadillac 1? As recorded by a viewer of the motorcade and posted to … Continue reading

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