Monthly Archives: March 2002

Popshot

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Popshot, a new punk rock magazine, scolds naïve anti-capitalists for getting the wrong end of the stick. (Found in Aaron Krowne’s blog of which I was not previously aware; he was on my list of sites to look at because … Continue reading →

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greenery on the red planet?

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

Mammoth trees near Martian south pole? Well, they’re curious, whatever they are. Could be accretions of something sticky, as in the ‘Coral’ screensaver. Reminds me of a book I have, Where will we go when the Sun dies?, which I … Continue reading →

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Flo control

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

Visual cat-pass filter (relayed by Spastic Mutant)

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counting the unseen

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

politechbot.com: AAAS statistician testifies at Milosevic trial in The Hague

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Schelling points

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

New Scientist: Neural network ‘in-jokes’ could pass secrets This reminds me of a discussion, years ago on Extropians, of “Schelling points”: for under-constrained problems there may be a cultural preference for particular solutions. For example, if I ask you to … Continue reading →

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found poetry

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 24 by Anton

If I were given to clichés, I might suggest that if you were to look in the dictionary under “you cannot make this shit up” you’d find a picture of www.We Made Out in a Tree and This Old Guy … Continue reading →

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Anton ‘Mr.’ Sherwood wants to know

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 24 by Anton

How old is the convention of writing nicknames as middle names, e.g. (taking a handy fictional example) “Tim ‘Curly’ Beamish”? Why do you see even “Tim ‘Curly Tim’ Beamish” (gordelpus) rather than “‘Curly’ Tim Beamish”? What is the convention (if … Continue reading →

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