Author Archives: Anton

a perfect sphere would be so ordinary.

Posted on Friday, 2002 August 02 by Anton

Satellites Reveal a Mystery of Large Change in Earth’s Gravity. In the last five years, Earth has grown more oblate, reversing a trend since the Ice Ages. Amazing what they can measure nowadays, eh?

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The Boring Part

Posted on Friday, 2002 August 02 by Anton

I need to vent, and welcome any advice, on several matters which are somewhat entangled with each other.

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vote with your tectonic plate

Posted on Friday, 2002 August 02 by Anton

GPS sparks boundary wars. New measurements tell Rhode Islanders that they live in Connecticut, and so on. (Thanks to Monty Solomon for the link.) If it were a question of private property, I believe the rule of adverse possession would … Continue reading →

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if it’s Thursday, this must be a blog item

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 01 by Anton

No fair! This list of blogs ranked by number of links (each way) omits me, though I’ve been linked (at least in passing) by about fifteen of those on the list. I must have forgotten to turn off the Romulan … Continue reading →

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was it the voices?

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 01 by Anton

“Oh my God, it’s Chianti! And from a year when the grapes died and they used foo instead!” Who the heck said that, and what was foo?

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something for everyone

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 01 by Anton

You already know about the peculiar poetry of the Arcata Eye police log, right? How about Ed Pegg’s Mathpuzzle? It’s a dense log of matters Gardneresque, with new material about once a week.

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are there still girls in apartment 3-G?

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 July 30 by Anton

Today I spent a pleasant while browsing Don Markstein’s Toonopedia, a growing database of cartoons of all types.

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