Author Archives: Anton

prior restraint

Posted on Monday, 2004 January 12 by Anton

By now you’ve probably heard that Photoshop refuses to process images of US currency. I wonder whether we’ll see movies cheekily alluding to such censorship by masking out (perhaps with a glowing effect) any currency that appears in shot.

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the thrill of interstellar exploration

Posted on Saturday, 2004 January 10 by Anton

fantasy vs (presumed) reality

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internal coherency

Posted on Saturday, 2004 January 10 by Anton

Mike Lorrey reports: . . . the Vermont town of Killington, VT is considering the possibility of seceding from Vermont . . . Well that’s a relief. If the Michigan town of Killington, VT were to debate seceding from Arizona, that would be silly.

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return to Sunnydale

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 January 07 by Anton

So I’m continuing to watch Buffy, beginning season two. Got a partial answer to one of my previous questions at the end of episode “School Hard” when two authority figures said: “What do you suggest? The truth?” “Gangs on PCP … Continue reading →

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Russ Nelson

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 January 06 by Anton

Russ Nelson is, if memory serves, a Quaker and an anarchist. He used to be on my favorite mailing list; I wonder why he dropped. Well, I just noticed that he has a blog; he calls it The Angry Economist.

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remarkable publicity!

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 January 06 by Anton

Today the Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal set forth without comment the principles of “gun-toter” Jeffrey Jordan’s group Liberty Round Table. (Cited by Russell.)

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another item that makes less sense than it did when written

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 January 06 by Anton

My good friend Russell Whitaker, back from a week’s absence and full of the blogging itch, muses: I wonder if my good friend Anton Sherwood would consider moving to a real hosted blogging solution like Typepad so that I might … Continue reading →

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