Author Archives: Anton

dentists in Beleriand?

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

“Jane Galt” (Megan McArdle) remarks in passing that “our bodies aren’t really up to the strain of physical labor for our new, improved lifespans.” Which reminds me of a puzzler: In all those stories where a drug/virus confers immortality, what … Continue reading →

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two colors are better than . . more

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

Ananova: EU rejects call to change flag. Whew, and yet – Is anyone somehow a bit disappointed?

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toon history

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

Am I the only one who remembers a cartoon carnivore saying “And then it’s lunchtime!” as he plotted to catch the innocent rodent or boid? Does anyone remember him less hazily than I do?

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sales pitches possibly unclear on the concept

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

(from a spam for growth hormone): “As seen on NBC, CBS, CNN, and even Oprah!” Speaking of spam, I almost wonder whether shiny new “Diplomas from prestigious non-accredited universities based on your present knowledge and life experience” might be more … Continue reading →

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does whatever a spider can

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

I haven’t read Spider-Man much in the last twenty years, so I forgive myself for needing to have it pointed out to me (in a review whose link I have lost) that the nonentity recently played by Ms Dunst is … Continue reading →

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I’m a poet and don’t knoet

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

Charlie Stross describes the FBI Carnivore email-snooper as “an indiscriminate Hoover”. That’s twice this month he’s made a pun such that I can’t tell whether he was aware of it. (The other was “Genetic Algorithm That Ate Calcutta”.)

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missing energy

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 31 by Anton

Got a spam (three or four times now) from a Christian kook. In the middle of the prophecies about nuclear war and the biochip of the beast is a paragraph about Creation, including: THE LATEST RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR PHYSICS HAS … Continue reading →

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