Monthly Archives: June 2003

the copper peril

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 June 17 by Anton

Could a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building kill a pedestrian on the street below? The Experiment. (Thanks again to Joanne Schmitz) 2021: Closing comments on this one to cut down a little bit on spam.

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argh

Posted on Monday, 2003 June 16 by Anton

Another thing I’d like to know is why I was able to run cdrecord on Red Hat 6.2 but not on 7.1 or 9. Later: The CDR had gone bad in the interim. I replaced it with a DVD/CD burner.) … Continue reading →

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bagboys get the chicks?

Posted on Monday, 2003 June 16 by Anton

Who knew?

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the promised what?

Posted on Sunday, 2003 June 15 by Anton

Why Jews Don’t Farm. Link from Matthew Yglesias, whose commentors don’t think much of the essay.

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bioethics IV

Posted on Sunday, 2003 June 15 by Anton

Amy Greenwood takes on those pestilential ‘bioethicists’ whom I have heckled more than once. Yes, if the world is different, we will think about it differently. So what? A worldview in flux is not an ethical problem, and why assume … Continue reading →

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one appealing candidate

Posted on Sunday, 2003 June 15 by Anton

Dave Barry for President. (Link from Virginia Postrel)

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superhero rays

Posted on Friday, 2003 June 13 by Anton

In the Spiderman movie that appeared a year ago, one striking departure from canon was to have a bio-engineered spider, rather than a radioactive one, bite Peter Parker. (Makes more sense anyway.) I wondered at the time, would Daredevil make … Continue reading →

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