Author Archives: Anton

someone blew their self-reference roll

Posted on Sunday, 2006 January 22 by Anton

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

Posted on Thursday, 2006 January 19 by Anton

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

Posted on Friday, 2006 January 13 by Anton

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

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the urge to meddle

Posted on Thursday, 2006 January 12 by Anton

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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on the design of namespaces

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 January 11 by Anton

My home address is of the form m Rivendell Lane, #n. Rivendell Lane (name changed) is a condo with multiple buildings; each building contains multiple dwellings, each with an outside door. When tradesmen come calling, most of the time their … Continue reading →

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cinema 1965

Posted on Monday, 2006 January 09 by Anton

侍 Samurai aka Samurai Assassin (dir. 岡本喜八). Talk, talk, talk, talk, bloodbath, End. How To Murder Your Wife (dir. Richard Quine). Phooey. For comedy we make some allowance for a contrived story and an immoral resolution, but this one … Continue reading →