Category Archives: sciences

Brent gets desperate

Posted on Thursday, 2005 October 20 by Anton

how to impress chicks?

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Free Market Anti-Capitalism

Posted on Thursday, 2005 October 13 by Anton

I wonder what I did to deserve being blogrolled by Mutualist (Kevin Carson).

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Framestore CFC Press Release

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 09 by Anton

noitulovE, a quick recap (in reverse) of the last few hundred million years of life; gorgeous animation (Quicktime). Cited in povray.off-topic by Gilles Tran.

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“for god’s sake, please stop the aid!”

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 August 23 by Anton

Spiegel Interview with African Economics Expert If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn’t even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Friday, 2005 August 19 by Anton

Letter to The Economist, August 13 issue: My professor on an accounting course at Harvard Business School 25 years ago introduced it thus: “When most of you read accounting statements now, you do not understand them. At the end of … Continue reading →

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One Of These Things

Posted on Thursday, 2005 July 14 by Anton

I’m looking at a banner ad that says Q. Which is not like the others? 63 57 98 01 I saw quickly that none are prime (1 is usually not counted as prime, so that each integer’s prime factorization is … Continue reading →

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time-sink of the week

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 July 12 by Anton

Planarity, a Flash puzzle: rearrange the vertices so that no edges cross. (Cited by Joshua Burton.) When a solution is near, the program gets very slow, which seems backward. (Thursday: It has been changed to test only on the player’s … Continue reading →

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