Author Archives: Anton

argh

And now I’m getting spammed by Frappr: DOWN CLOTHING from Chino (CA) would like to be your friend and join your Friend Map. I only bloody joined Frappr because one of my groups wanted to get everyone on the map. … Continue reading

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and then vampires come, and they start making these stupid little mini-pizzas

So there I was, getting into the swing of Wikipedia, doing my bit for (among others) numerous entries relating to Buffy. I noticed that the pages for Darla, Angel, Spike and Harmony repeated a bunch, so I created an entry … Continue reading

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stopped for speeding?

Yesterday I saw Officer Friendly take a man’s pulse. Why? I didn’t see the beginning of the encounter. They were standing on a street corner; there was a bicycle standing by, apparently belonging to the examinee, who showed no obvious … Continue reading

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keep the customer occupied

I have an idea for an automatic cat-teaser. (Too bad I haven’t tried to build anything since childhood.) It consists of a double pendulum driven by two perpendicular oscillators.

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photorealistic animation

– clikclak – the movie – (Quicktime) (cited by Scott McCloud)

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busted?

Today an anonymous user made controversial changes to Wikipedia’s article on the Second Amendment and five related pages. The IP address used, 141.156.208.66, belongs to bradymail.org, i.e. Handgun Control Inc. the Brady Campaign to Monopolize Gun Violence. Who’d have thunk … Continue reading

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incomplete information

Another copy of the balloonist joke. I still wanna know what the second man is doing in the deep ocean. I also wanna know, LJ experts, how I can become a real boy in the eyes of LJ’s comment machinery … Continue reading

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