Monthly Archives: September 2002

in Johannesburg

Posted on Monday, 2002 September 30 by Anton

Poverty-pimps get due recognition. I’m not a bit surprised to see that trouble-maker Leon Louw mentioned at the end of this article.

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the hard knocks of school

Posted on Monday, 2002 September 30 by Anton

Scrappleface explains why public schooling is better than homeschooling.

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Turkey City Lexicon

Posted on Sunday, 2002 September 29 by Anton

An amusing catalog of literary sins. (Blogged just now by Cory Doctorow.)

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pen and sword

Posted on Friday, 2002 September 27 by Anton

An op-ed advocating militia-based defense — from a professor of aesthetics at Harvard. What is the world coming to?

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QotD

Posted on Friday, 2002 September 27 by Anton

Theo Gray To think that a modern human should be able to do everything that previous generations have been able to do (hunt, speak Latin, do square roots by hand, etc.), and also have any time left over to learn … Continue reading →

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there’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium

Posted on Friday, 2002 September 27 by Anton

Theodore Gray built a wooden Periodic Table table, containing samples of 81 elements (so far). Look around for amusing anecdotes about how the samples were acquired, and what you might do if you have too much sodium to store safely. … Continue reading →

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another day, another blogpost

Posted on Thursday, 2002 September 26 by Anton

Learned this week: a pimple can be quite astonishingly painful, if it’s in the ear-canal. Miyazaki’s 千と千尋の神隠し Spirited Away was fun. I wonder how many of the monsters in the background could be recognized (by a trufan) from other works. … Continue reading →

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