Monthly Archives: November 2002

a talented family

Too cool! Today’s Bizarro cartoon credits my stepbrother Seth Chabay for the gag.

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wee folk on the big screen

Seeing a light blue Ford Anglia in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was a special treat for me, because we had one when I was about seven. Too bad about the script, though. In the trailer for The … Continue reading

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fans rejoice

Lost Doctor Who show revived: the BBC is remaking Shada, an episode (by Douglas Adams) that was aborted by a strike in 1979.

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libertarian strategy, in two senses

Tony Woodlief quotes Murray Rothbard: “Most classical liberal or laissez-faire activists have adopted, perhaps without much thoughtful consideration, a simple strategy that we may call ‘educationism.’ Roughly: We have arrived at the truth, but most people are still deluded believers … Continue reading

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group hygiene

Rumor concerning Yahoogroups: Attention: Owners & Moderators please read Important!!! If you are on other groups, or are a moderator or owner of other groups, please crosspost this notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . Someonehas been joining communities with the nickname YAHOO COMMUNITYMONITOR, and … Continue reading

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wanted: abstract plumber

Joel [Spolsky] on Software – The Law of Leaky Abstractions means that whenever somebody comes up with a wizzy new code-generation tool that is supposed to make us all ever-so-efficient, you hear a lot of people saying “learn how to … Continue reading

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the virtue of crudity

In Praise of Evolvable Systems: Why something as poorly designed as the Web became The Next Big Thing, and what that means for the future. (Thanks to Joel Levin for the link)

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