Author Archives: Anton

watching the talkies, 1954-6

Posted on Friday, 2004 September 10 by Anton

Mister Roberts (1955) is the dullest movie I’ve sat through in some time. I did not turn it off because the characters have enough potential that one keeps thinking something might happen. I was mildly surprised to find that To … Continue reading →

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movies rented recently

Posted on Saturday, 2004 September 04 by Anton

Simple Men (1992), recommended on an INTP list. Extremely indie. I abandoned it, bored. Les diaboliques (1955), a murder story with a twist. From a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac; when they heard that Hitchcock had sought the … Continue reading →

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if the shoe were on the other foot, it would be a glove

Posted on Friday, 2004 September 03 by Anton

Worth a giggle: What if Scientists Behaved Like Fundamentlists?

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wouldn’t want to give anyone ideas

Posted on Thursday, 2004 September 02 by Anton

Justice Department Censors Supreme Court Quote The mind reels at such a blatant abuse of power (and at the sheer chutzpah of using national security as an excuse to censor a quotation [from a Supreme Court decision] about using national … Continue reading →

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we don’t need no education

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 August 31 by Anton

Why Nerds are Unpopular — an essay by Paul Graham blaming the neuroses of adolescence on the pointlessness of schooling. I’m surprised to find I haven’t blogged it already; so here it is so I’ll be able to find it … Continue reading →

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Elmer Ludd

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 August 31 by Anton

Ronald Bailey slaps Francis Fukuyama silly. Thanks to Monica White and Perry Metzger for the link. (See also Happy Fun Pundit‘s response to Fukuyama’s previous bio-luddite essay.)