Author Archives: Anton

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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the trouble with neutrality

Alan Bock writes: So it was time to break out one of the oldest canards in American political discourse – the assertion that anybody who questions any particular military adventure is – cue the boo track – a nasty old … Continue reading

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Colorblind Web Page Filter

Ever worry about how your webpage looks to the colorblind? I am pleased to find that my doodles page looks pretty good in gray. (Cited by Sam Logan.)

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