Author Archives: Anton

the danger of originality

I’ve been catching up on Heroes (the link is to the first episode on NBC’s website). Episode 18 “Parasite” has an establishing shot of Las Vegas, an aerial view in daylight, which I did not recognize because establishing shots of … Continue reading

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“So you want to write a fugue”

(by Glenn Gould) 2016: The embedding doesn’t work anymore, presumably because it used Flash; so here’s a link.

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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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