Author Archives: Anton

Rock Names

Posted on Friday, 2003 March 28 by Anton

Yesterday I picked up a remainder copy of Rock Names from ABBA to ZZ Top: How Rock Bands Got Their Names, by Adam Dolgins. Looking through such a reference, naturally one thinks about what to call one’s own hypothetical band; … Continue reading →

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the PIS/SE standard

Posted on Monday, 2003 March 24 by Anton

Peter Stickney writes in alt.peeves: Voice recognition will not be mature until a system can transcribe “Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)” with 95% accuracy, in real time.

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about that sorry wave of suicide bombings

Posted on Sunday, 2003 March 23 by Anton

Also found in the archives, whom to blame.

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1914 and all that

Posted on Sunday, 2003 March 23 by Anton

Paul Berman in Salon It becomes ever more obvious that the First World War was the great trauma of modern civilization. Something huge cracked in the First World War and has never been repaired. Out of the First World War … Continue reading →

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where’s Barbra?

Posted on Sunday, 2003 March 23 by Anton

California Coastal Records Project: Our goal is to create a aerial photographic survey of the California Coast and update it on a periodic basis. . . . We currently have over 12,100 photographs (totaling over 82GB) of the California Coast online, covering … Continue reading →

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squish them before they get big

Posted on Saturday, 2003 March 22 by Anton

Clayton Cramer wrote, by way of introducing himself over at the Volokh Conspiracy: . . . As I look back on my youth, growing up in Santa Monica, California, I can identify three defining moments in creating my political ideology. The first … Continue reading →

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the law of the human jungle

Posted on Saturday, 2003 March 22 by Anton

More from my archives, 1998 April 04: If anarcho-capitalism depends on everybody’s goodwill, so what? If that’s a serious flaw then we’re in deep trouble, because DAILY LIFE IN ANY SYSTEM depends on everybody’s goodwill to the same degree. Every … Continue reading →

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