Monthly Archives: April 2002

why be just a little bit crooked?

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 April 03 by Anton

Got a spam today for police-seized cars, and gotta admire the symmetry: using ‘legally’ stolen bandwidth to sell ‘legally’ stolen goods. (They tell you that the cars belonged to “drug kingpins”, which even if it were true would not justify … Continue reading →

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contagion and corruption

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 April 03 by Anton

The Economist (Mar.30) paraphrases a paper on “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development” (by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, American Economic Review Dec.2001): The harder it was for Europeans to settle a region, the greater the culture … Continue reading →

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wildlife around us

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 April 03 by Anton

So that’s it! On the way home this evening, I saw a raccoon slip into a sewer-grate. In other news, frogs (or somethings) have been chirping in chorus at night; I guess they’re in the ditch by the railroad.

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bloody Vikings

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 April 02 by Anton

Today’s prize for chutzpah in spam goes to Technomages [what would JMS say?], whose ad ends with “Click Here to not receive future mailings of this offer”. If you click, you won’t see this ‘offer’ again, but you’ll get a … Continue reading →

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the clock has new numbers

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 01 by Anton

You may be hearing less from me in the next few weeks. Got a temp job that involves getting up at hours previously unknown to civilized man, at least this one.

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