Monthly Archives: May 2002

a penny here, a penny there

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 27 by Anton

How to make money off blogs according to Eve Kayden. If any advertising moguls are reading this, I’m willing to have a go. Six hundred pairs of eyeballs a month, baby!

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zero tolerance

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 27 by Anton

Darth Vader’s War on Terror.

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no nukes here, really!

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 27 by Anton

Since logging began in November, I’ve had 13 referrals from www.iaea.org, which appears to be dead; whois says it’s the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna. Ha? Is someone spoofing? Update 6/01: That site is up now.

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victory is around the corner

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 26 by Anton

Freezerbox: This Is American History On Drugs California now imprisons more people than do France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the Netherlands combined. It has more people in jail for drug offenses than were in jail in the entire United States … Continue reading →

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a great icosahedron

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 26 by Anton

. . made in PoV-Ray using a couple of beta features. I took the liberty of naming the pigment “Tufte” : it uses unsaturated colors to represent angles in a natural way.

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your tweezers, please

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 26 by Anton

Security can be more about power trips than safe travel. Hooray, we cranks are not alone in saying it. (Link from Monty Solomon.)

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the final enemy

Posted on Saturday, 2002 May 25 by Anton

Charles Murtaugh quotes from the NY Times obituary an interesting sentence from Stephen Jay Gould (apparently in 1982 when he first had cancer): “When my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way,” … Continue reading →

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