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“a pack, not a herd”

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 08 by Anton

Duncan Frissell: On September 11th, our president could have gone on national TV and said, “I call upon all armed citizens to load their weapons, and go outside to secure their communities against terrorists. Under the emergency powers granted to … Continue reading →

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call me primitive

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 08 by Anton

Teresa Nielsen Hayden greets me with: Hi there. Looks like you’re using barfy ol’ Netscape 4.x. I don’t want to seem unkind or rejecting, but it’s a real pain to design a web page that’ll work with Netscape 4. . . . … Continue reading →

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same but not same

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 08 by Anton

Some say rebuild the towers exactly as they were. Some say leave their footprints bare. Seems to me you can have both: rotate the plan by a quarter-turn.

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proud alumni of Wassamatta U.

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 08 by Anton

Jane Galt comments on the boorishness of Americans as seen by Europe: inter alia, They wear sweatshirts with the names of their colleges on them. Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Heh. American college sweatshirts were … Continue reading →

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next: nucleonic memory

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 08 by Anton

Single-atom bits. (Link from Eric Hall.)

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there goes Grandma’s plan for the first Dadaist hijacking

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 08 by Anton

Airport screeners seize GI Joe’s rifle. “We have instructions to confiscate anything that looks like a weapon or a replica.” Fair’s fair. Wouldn’t want our airports to be less secure(d) than our schools.

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a backward tribe

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 08 by Anton

It had to happen: I just got a “Nigerian scam” letter from someone representing himself as “the secetary of Africa White farmers co-operation (AWFC) OF Zimbabwe.”

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