Author Archives: Anton

Arlo nails it

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 10 by Anton

One of my favorite songs begins: It’s the tenth of January / and I still ain’t had no sleep

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globalization and the underground

Posted on Thursday, 2003 January 09 by Anton

Hm. I got this spam: Hello and welcome to our super-undeground site — Here you can find where to buy any drugs (including Cocaine and Ganja) absolutely risk-free, where to watch child pornography almost for free, where to find stolen … Continue reading →

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tank treads without the wheels

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 January 08 by Anton

MIT Leg Lab’s Recti-Blob Robot (1995-1997). Mentioned in passing on a geometry list.

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the case of the haunted teddybear

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 January 07 by Anton

A tale of exorcism. (Linked by Jim March, who is doing good RKBA work here in California.)

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would a Yankee professor lie?

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 January 07 by Anton

I sent Dad a pretty piece of meteorite, without explanation, knowing that he and his missus would have fun guessing what it is. I had never seen stuff like it: lumps of olivine (a translucent silicate rock) in a matrix … Continue reading →

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Cogito, ergo non possum dormire

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 January 07 by Anton

The above delightful phrase is the title of a new “mostly political (libertarian), mostly link-hound, mostly for my amusement blog.” Oops! For those of you whose Latin has gone rusty, that means I Think, Therefore I Cannot Sleep.

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the bathtub curve has two ends

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 January 07 by Anton

Average life expectancy for a population is normally given from birth; but it seems to me more useful to distinguish youth mortality (e.g. from birth-defects or malnutrition) from that of adulthood (violence, accidents) and age (heart disease &c). I’d like … Continue reading →

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