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Monday, 2004 January 12, 14:59 — technology

prior restraint

By now you’ve probably heard that Photoshop refuses to process images of US currency. I wonder whether we’ll see movies cheekily alluding to such censorship by masking out (perhaps with a glowing effect) any currency that appears in shot.

Saturday, 2004 January 10, 17:36 — cartoons

the thrill of interstellar exploration

fantasy vs (presumed) reality

Saturday, 2004 January 10, 13:32 — language, politics

internal coherency

Mike Lorrey reports:

. . . the Vermont town of Killington, VT is considering the possibility of seceding from Vermont . . .

Well that’s a relief. If the Michigan town of Killington, VT were to debate seceding from Arizona, that would be silly.

Wednesday, 2004 January 7, 16:18 — cinema

return to Sunnydale

So I’m continuing to watch Buffy, beginning season two. Got a partial answer to one of my previous questions at the end of episode “School Hard” when two authority figures said:

“What do you suggest? The truth?”
“Gangs on PCP it is, then.”

The killing of the Anointed (in the same ep) was rather out of the blue, but in retrospect he wasn’t much use as a character.

Tuesday, 2004 January 6, 23:57 — blogdom, economics, politics

Russ Nelson

Russ Nelson is, if memory serves, a Quaker and an anarchist. He used to be on my favorite mailing list; I wonder why he dropped. Well, I just noticed that he has a blog; he calls it The Angry Economist.

Tuesday, 2004 January 6, 23:45 — politics, weapons

remarkable publicity!

Today the Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal set forth without comment the principles of “gun-toter” Jeffrey Jordan’s group Liberty Round Table. (Cited by Russell.)

Tuesday, 2004 January 6, 23:38 — blogdom, me!me!me!

another item that makes less sense than it did when written

My good friend Russell Whitaker, back from a week’s absence and full of the blogging itch, muses:

I wonder if my good friend Anton Sherwood would consider moving to a real hosted blogging solution like Typepad so that I might be enabled to actually comment on things he says in his blog?

You’ll find my mailing address is at the top and bottom of this page [old blog]; I have posted occasional mail-in contributions. Or you can use your own blog and I’ll probably link.

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