Monthly Archives: February 2002

hyperbolic, baby!

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Pretty things: hyperbolic planar tesselations by Don Hatch. Presented in the conformal Poincaré disc mapping, which is the most common; it’s analogous to stereographic projection of a sphere. Another favorite mapping is the half-plane, which has no analogue that I … Continue reading →

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the Senator from Low Earth Orbit

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

People say a lot of unkind things about John Glenn, and I won’t rule out the possibility that there might be good reasons for that. But I’d like to record that he did one good thing that I’ll never forget. … Continue reading →

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disclaimer

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Last night I mentioned linguists and misguided egalitarians in the same breath, and it occurs to me that some might take that somehow as a swipe at a certain public figure. Let me assure both my readers that I was … Continue reading →

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scandal

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Jay Zilber looks at a burning issue.

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you have three last chances

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Several blogs today have mentioned a certain former president of Megaserbia Jugoslavija; and that reminded me of Private Eye’s log of the twenty-two last chances in 1991-99.

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is nothing sacred?

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Oh dear. Tony Adragna frets about tax havens: . . . not all activity in tax havens is questionable, but when the activity has as its primary purpose the avoidance of taxation, then we run afoul of the letter and spirit of … Continue reading →

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where the chicks aren’t

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Rich Hailey asks whether “becoming a libertarian [is] a good way to meet chicks.” I gotta say no, at least not in San Francisco. (Although, come to think of it, the last time I got lucky was with someone who … Continue reading →

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