Author Archives: Anton

the final freedom

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 March 27 by Anton

From Jason Soon, the tale of an ingenious group effort to confound the State in a case of assisted suicide.

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wish carefully

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Last week I moaned about unemployment. So now I’m all-but-offered a job: doing work even more mechanical than before, at 3/5 the wage. Naturally the client won’t want to invest three weeks of training (on a proprietary system; the last … Continue reading →

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behind the digits

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Got an approximation to a real number, and want to know what formula is hidden behind it? Try Plouffe’s Inverter.

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forsooth thy knockers be bounteous

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

a chuckle from John and Antonio: We once knew a woman who got a job translating three porn flicks from Italian to Spanish. Why did they bother, you ask. Because they were done in (well, mostly out of) Renaissance dress … Continue reading →

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get the Kryptonite!

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Cintra Wilson raises the alarm: I must warn the world about Tom Cruise. I feel he is an utterly terrifying Superior Life Form, with the power to melt heads and braid spines. His eyes are as hard, shiny and brutally … Continue reading →

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Popshot

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Popshot, a new punk rock magazine, scolds naïve anti-capitalists for getting the wrong end of the stick. (Found in Aaron Krowne’s blog of which I was not previously aware; he was on my list of sites to look at because … Continue reading →

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greenery on the red planet?

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

Mammoth trees near Martian south pole? Well, they’re curious, whatever they are. Could be accretions of something sticky, as in the ‘Coral’ screensaver. Reminds me of a book I have, Where will we go when the Sun dies?, which I … Continue reading →

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