Monthly Archives: March 2002

packers and mappers

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 31 by Anton

Reciprocality: some interesting stuff about the psychology of creativity.

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oh yeah, that’ll help – but help whom?

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 31 by Anton

The latest from that great hypocrite Don Perata: Calif. lawmaker wants 5-cent tax on every bullet to support trauma centers. Perata said there was plenty of precedent for taxing bullets, noting that California has been taxing smokers 50-cents for each … Continue reading →

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ungrammatical boys, ungrammatical boys, whatcha gonna do?

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 31 by Anton

Okay, the Grammar Police gag has been done before, if not quite so stylishly. I don’t mind an excuse to plug my favorite college strip.

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lovely, wonderful

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 31 by Anton

Got a spam today that may have been designed purely to annoy me. The title is “hi, I fixed the problem . . .” and the entire content is <img src=”http://www.1stchannel.com/images/pixel.gif?track=1&entry=[myaddress]” border=”0″> Had I opened this with image-loading enabled, it would look blank … Continue reading →

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peeves

Posted on Saturday, 2002 March 30 by Anton

My clipping service (hi Jo) found these in alt.peeves: Well apart from coffee, algebra and astronomy, Positional notation/place value, soap and international trade, what have the arabs ever done for us? [link] and: Peeve: people who think the main purpose … Continue reading →

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short and stout

Posted on Saturday, 2002 March 30 by Anton

Steve Baker tells the tale of the Utah Teapot. (Found through another Steve’s links.) Links in turn to the Stanford Bunny. And what collection of digital models would be complete without Lena Sjööblom? I first saw her in Foley & … Continue reading →

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generic carnivory

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 29 by Anton

The oddest things sometimes bug me. Does anyone else remember a children’s book which mentions eating “roast beast”? Update. One reader (see, this is how I smoke you out) points it out in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I feel … Continue reading →

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