Author Archives: Anton

words about letters

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 29 by Anton

I feel like mentioning, for no particular reason, that The Font Bureau’s Graphite Condensed looks remarkably like Walt Kelly’s Henry Shikuma’s lettering in Pogo.

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Jack and the nanotube ribbon

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 29 by Anton

The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality. (And with only three popups!) Dragging lines up seems so inelegant, though, compared to bringing in a carbon-bearing asteroid and extruding the whole thing down. Maybe next time.

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the music goes round and round

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 28 by Anton

At a party in 1981 I predicted that within twenty years there would be digital music players with no moving parts. I was a bit worried there until MP3 players came along. (Good thing nobody remembers I predicted that such … Continue reading →

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those bastards!

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 28 by Anton

Medical marijuana refugees in Canada. So that’s what happened to Kubby! (Link from Alex Knapp.)

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paper forever

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 28 by Anton

In the New Yorker, a review of The Myth of the Paperless Office. (Link from Monty Solomon on a private list.) Paper enables a certain kind of thinking. Picture, for instance, the top of your desk. . . . The piles look … Continue reading →

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alchemists

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 March 27 by Anton

I had not heard of Nicholas Flamel before Harry Potter. Here is an article about him from Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness Of Crowds.

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robots.txt

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 March 27 by Anton

Ftrain: Robot Exclusion Protocol. A story about the Google of the future. (From Amygdala. Scroll down a bit to see a rant on Star Treks past and present.)

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