Monthly Archives: March 2002

Yahoo alert

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 29 by Anton

(I received about three versions of this warning today. This one came first, from Harvey Newstrom of Extropy Institute, and is the most detailed.) Yahoo has added a new section to your “Account Info” that requests spammers to send you … Continue reading →

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the secret origin of the Nanites

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 29 by Anton

Dave Krieger, whom I haven’t seen in too long, tells the tale of his role in the creation of Krieger Waves. (This is not new but I don’t remember seeing it before.)

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words about letters

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 29 by Anton

I feel like mentioning, for no particular reason, that The Font Bureau’s Graphite Condensed looks remarkably like Walt Kelly’s Henry Shikuma’s lettering in Pogo.

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Jack and the nanotube ribbon

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 29 by Anton

The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality. (And with only three popups!) Dragging lines up seems so inelegant, though, compared to bringing in a carbon-bearing asteroid and extruding the whole thing down. Maybe next time.

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the music goes round and round

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 28 by Anton

At a party in 1981 I predicted that within twenty years there would be digital music players with no moving parts. I was a bit worried there until MP3 players came along. (Good thing nobody remembers I predicted that such … Continue reading →

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those bastards!

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 28 by Anton

Medical marijuana refugees in Canada. So that’s what happened to Kubby! (Link from Alex Knapp.)

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paper forever

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 28 by Anton

In the New Yorker, a review of The Myth of the Paperless Office. (Link from Monty Solomon on a private list.) Paper enables a certain kind of thinking. Picture, for instance, the top of your desk. . . . The piles look … Continue reading →

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