Monthly Archives: March 2002

alchemists

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 March 27 by Anton

I had not heard of Nicholas Flamel before Harry Potter. Here is an article about him from Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness Of Crowds.

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robots.txt

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 March 27 by Anton

Ftrain: Robot Exclusion Protocol. A story about the Google of the future. (From Amygdala. Scroll down a bit to see a rant on Star Treks past and present.)

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the final freedom

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 March 27 by Anton

From Jason Soon, the tale of an ingenious group effort to confound the State in a case of assisted suicide.

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wish carefully

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Last week I moaned about unemployment. So now I’m all-but-offered a job: doing work even more mechanical than before, at 3/5 the wage. Naturally the client won’t want to invest three weeks of training (on a proprietary system; the last … Continue reading →

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behind the digits

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Got an approximation to a real number, and want to know what formula is hidden behind it? Try Plouffe’s Inverter.

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forsooth thy knockers be bounteous

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

a chuckle from John and Antonio: We once knew a woman who got a job translating three porn flicks from Italian to Spanish. Why did they bother, you ask. Because they were done in (well, mostly out of) Renaissance dress … Continue reading →

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get the Kryptonite!

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Cintra Wilson raises the alarm: I must warn the world about Tom Cruise. I feel he is an utterly terrifying Superior Life Form, with the power to melt heads and braid spines. His eyes are as hard, shiny and brutally … Continue reading →

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