Author Archives: Anton

me and my chainsaw

Drunk with power, last night I did some severe pruning in Wikipedia’s main Heraldry article, taking out a lot of arcana that do not belong in an overview (barrulets? erminites?) and adding a few paragraphs on design principles, symbolism (or … Continue reading

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yet another state murder in progress

Brad Spangler provides contact info for the DA of Placer County, whose job it is to persecute Steve Kubby for trying to stay alive by unapproved means.

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one nocturne deserves

I’m on graveyard shift. Last night there were two of us but tonight I have the floor to myself. It’s so slow, I’d be tempted to strip down and run laps, if I could be sure there are no cameras; … Continue reading

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someone blew their self-reference roll

So there’s a banner ad (on Greg Dean’s Real Life Comics) that reads: Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend but do diamonds hold all of her d20’s? Yeah, we didn’t think so. Naturally, each “o” in the second line … Continue reading

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how to write about Africa

Binyavanga Wainaina in Granta Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these. If you must … Continue reading

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truncated icosahedra

I learn to my surprise that the iconic soccer ball is younger than I am.

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the urge to meddle

I recently began contributing to Wikipedia; my biggest contribution so far is these tables of convex uniform polychora (the data are borrowed, the arrangement mine). After a few days of this, wherever I see a webpage with awkward language I … Continue reading

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