Category Archives: sciences

an even number of odd links

Posted on Friday, 2003 July 18 by Anton

In a surprising place, a history of the hamburger. (Linked by Bruce Sterling.) Time Cube Central: your unofficial timecube resource (found through Crank Dot Net). 2006: dead.

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Vanessa Layne observes (in mail): One of the significant problems in the marketplace for office automation software is that the person who uses it is almost never the person who decides to buy it. The feedback loop is never closed, … Continue reading →

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not so venerable

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 July 09 by Anton

The earliest known source of the “turtles all the way down” anecdote – variously told about William James, Bertrand Russell, T H Huxley and others – is a dissertation written in or about 1969, according to this page. (Cited by … Continue reading →

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life in n-space

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 July 08 by Anton

Ever since reading Greg Egan’s novel Diaspora (1998), part of which takes place in a five-dimensional universe, I’ve occasionally tried to imagine aspects of life in higher spaces (which is tricky, as I lack the knack of visualizing in such … Continue reading →

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those wacky economists

Posted on Monday, 2003 July 07 by Anton

A couple of weeks ago I happened to meet Jeff Hummel on Market Street. My eye was caught not by his face but by his t-shirt, which bore several crossed-out misspellings of Laissez Faire.

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stoners everywhere

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 June 24 by Anton

Jacob Sullum: Reefer gladness / Drug users in the next office and atop the corporate ladder Lewis, the man who accomplished all this, remains Progressive’s chairman and owns more than a tenth of the company’s shares, making him a billionaire. … Continue reading →

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Computer Graphics and Geometric Ornamental Design

Posted on Friday, 2003 June 20 by Anton

Craig Kaplan writes: Whenever possible, one’s thesis should be write-only. Nevertheless, I understand if once in a while a visitor to this page may choose to read what I’ve written.

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