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Wednesday filler

meme goes meta When I decided I wanted a domain, about ten years ago, .nu was the cheapest registry. It’s now €60 to renew for two years; I suspect I can do better than that. So don’t be surprised if … Continue reading

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battling ampersands

Abercrombie & Kent, a travel agency that uses a Times Roman ampersand as a trademark, sued andBEYOND, a travel agency, not for the tacky capitalization but for using a Gill Sans ampersand as a trademark. I doubt that such a … Continue reading

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Ladle Rat Rotten Hut with a straight face

Someone considered this passage, in “The Night of the Legion of Death” (an episode of The Wild Wild West), worth quoting on IMDb: You’re not the Governor. Your one of the down faith, commandor present, your value silver voice! Your … Continue reading

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Incandescence

In Greg Egan’s latest novel, as is not uncommon in first contact novels, the chapters alternate between the viewpoints of a human explorer and a member of the newly discovered species. In defiance of convention, Rakesh never finds Roi’s world. … Continue reading

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how about them links, eh?

I laughed aloud. Stefan Molyneux on voting No one could have predicted the housing bubble pop, right?

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it’s a post, ain’t it?

a very clever picture — clean, but be warned, much of that site is NSFW. Bon mot from Sheldon Richman: Advocates of the free market are sometimes parodied for their seemingly all-purpose answer to any problem: Let the market handle … Continue reading

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link salad

The latest fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains recalls an idea of mine: import ice boulders from Saturn’s rings, put them in Earth orbit, and drop them on fires as needed. Is that crazy? Misc links: a somewhat nerdy pun; … Continue reading

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