Monthly Archives: December 2002

a big non-container

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 18 by Anton

making a really big glass Klein bottle

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dark and light

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 18 by Anton

Paracelsus gives some links about something of concern to many of us at this time of year: the time of sunset. FAQ; Navy calculator 2006: the FAQ link is broken; I imagine it’s merely moved on the same site, but … Continue reading →

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it’s the special berries

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 18 by Anton

Drunken moose alert in southern Norway

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Operation Gnashing Butterfly

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 18 by Anton

Ftrain Random Military Operation Names Generating Device

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monsters

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 December 17 by Anton

David Brin writes: Next time you reread LOTR, count the number of powerful beings who are vastly uglier than anybody with that kind of power would allow themselves to be. Er . . . one? And that’s rationalized in the story; Sauron … Continue reading →

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if you do not appease us

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 December 17 by Anton

I heard once that in Sweden or Norway (curse the porosity of my memory) there was an organized campaign to stamp out an offensive second-person pronoun, with buttons proclaiming “I don’t say ___!” Unfortunately, the person who mentioned it did … Continue reading →

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a pox on bioethicists II

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 December 17 by Anton

Apparently Mr Bush has created something called the President’s Council on Bioethics. Now, I’ve never heard that term except in connexion with some chin-puller’s opinion that it’s naughty to tamper with God’s Will Nature by curing infertility or whatnot; so … Continue reading →

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