Category Archives: humanities

how’s your German?

Posted on Saturday, 2006 April 29 by Anton

I’d love to have an English translation of the German comments in fullgen.c, a program that counts the polyhedra that can be made of pentagons and hexagons (i.e. fullerenes), so that I can modify it. (None of the output modes … Continue reading →

Posted in language, mathematics, neep-neep | 3 Comments

it’s a day for anniversaries

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 April 19 by Anton

Several important things happened on April 19, but here’s one of which I was unaware: Charles Darwin died on this date in 1882. It came to my attention because the bookmark of the hour happens to be the Darwin-L archives. … Continue reading →

Posted in history, sciences | Leave a comment

awww!!

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 March 01 by Anton

I sneer at institutional sports, but — oh just go watch it. (Cited by Radley Balko.)

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brain-rot?

Posted on Sunday, 2006 February 26 by Anton

Am I the last to see this?

Posted in politics, psychology | 1 Comment

and then vampires come, and they start making these stupid little mini-pizzas

Posted on Thursday, 2006 February 16 by Anton

So there I was, getting into the swing of Wikipedia, doing my bit for (among others) numerous entries relating to Buffy. I noticed that the pages for Darla, Angel, Spike and Harmony repeated a bunch, so I created an entry … Continue reading →

Posted in fandom, me!me!me! | 1 Comment

incomplete information

Posted on Tuesday, 2006 February 07 by Anton

Another copy of the balloonist joke. I still wanna know what the second man is doing in the deep ocean. I also wanna know, LJ experts, how I can become a real boy in the eyes of LJ’s comment machinery … Continue reading →

Posted in blogdom, humanities | 2 Comments

Colorblind Web Page Filter

Posted on Saturday, 2006 February 04 by Anton

Ever worry about how your webpage looks to the colorblind? I am pleased to find that my doodles page looks pretty good in gray. (Cited by Sam Logan.)