Author Archives: Anton

QotD

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 07 by Anton

Eve Tushnet People call themselves “liberal” because they feel more comfortable with reluctant Gore voters than with reluctant Bush voters.

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wet process

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 07 by Anton

My correspondent calls it “Watermarking images in a whole new way”: After the accident, Eaves spent weeks broiling, baking and blow-drying the camera . . . but it still sloshed. So he decided to see what a soggy Nikon could do, and … Continue reading →

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aw, damn.

Posted on Saturday, 2002 April 06 by Anton

Got a spam today with the intriguing title “Look, I’m totally into you, I totally want you, but we have dinner plans.”

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one among many

Posted on Friday, 2002 April 05 by Anton

Isaac Asimov (1920-92) died of AIDS, from a tainted transfusion in 1983. (Locus; Ansible.) Was he the most famous such victim? Bill Detty asks: was he more famous than Arthur Ashe?

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blinked and missed it

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 04 by Anton

Most Overrated Events of the 20th Century — as chosen by (what else?) a Web poll in 1998-9

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why be just a little bit crooked?

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 April 03 by Anton

Got a spam today for police-seized cars, and gotta admire the symmetry: using ‘legally’ stolen bandwidth to sell ‘legally’ stolen goods. (They tell you that the cars belonged to “drug kingpins”, which even if it were true would not justify … Continue reading →

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contagion and corruption