Author Archives: Anton

the tortures of Tantalus

Posted on Monday, 2002 February 11 by Anton

Today some clown invited me to “Save over 300% on MEDICATION!” Sadly, the spam contained no valid address from which I might learn more about this offer to pay me $2 when I order $1 worth of Viagra.

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guns and cars

Posted on Sunday, 2002 February 10 by Anton

The meme “why not regulate guns like cars?” was much blogged last week. Anthony Swenson wrote: The real reason we should dislike the driver’s license model: Driving is not in the Bill of Rights. The right to keep and bear … Continue reading →

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you know my name, look up the number

Posted on Sunday, 2002 February 10 by Anton

Peeve: Redundantly numbered lists, such as this list of 134 worst movies, numbered in alphabetical order from 1 to 102. The median date of the champion turkeys, by the way, is 1988. Amazing. Update (December 2003): They took the numbers … Continue reading →

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soap films

Posted on Sunday, 2002 February 10 by Anton

I’ve begun to learn to use Ken Brakke’s Surface Evolver. Haven’t yet found whether it has the one feature that would make it ideal for my exploration of nonspherical ‘dome’ forms: ability to constrain the edges to equal length. The … Continue reading →

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are you threatening me?

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 07 by Anton

Sinfest borrows a riff from Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

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Grendel

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 07 by Anton

Today I bought Devil’s Legacy, a reprint of my then favorite of Matt Wagner’s Grendel stories. The new color job and slick paper make the Pander Bros artwork even more hard-edged and vivid, unless my memory (of 1986) is what’s … Continue reading →

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bugs in spaaace!

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 07 by Anton

This article (found at SciTech Daily) tells about tiny autonomous fliers proposed for Mars. Bees may also provide a solution for navigating on Mars, where there is no GPS network or magnetic field to tell one pole from another. Bees … Continue reading →

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