Monthly Archives: August 2004

what do you get when you cross a zebra?

Posted on Thursday, 2004 August 26 by Anton

Sir George Martin’s new coat of arms

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not a butterfly’s wing

Posted on Sunday, 2004 August 22 by Anton

Voronoi cells of nodes of the golden sector spiral, colored according to three different cycles (one for each primary), all with irrational periods.

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movies rented this week

Posted on Sunday, 2004 August 22 by Anton

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Formulaic fluff, but fun to watch. The Trouble with Harry (1955), a farce by Hitchcock, disappointingly thin. Shirley MacLaine’s first film.

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political speech

Posted on Sunday, 2004 August 22 by Anton

Alan K. Henderson sells shirts and a bumpersticker with the slogan McCain/Feingold ’04 SILENCE THE VOTE!

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lethally cuute

Posted on Sunday, 2004 August 22 by Anton

Kevin of The Smallest Minority shows off a pair of t-shirts: pink Kalashnikitty, blue Kalashnikitty

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grrr!

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 21 by Anton

The Violence of Conservatism by Jeffrey A. Tucker So there we have it. The magic of the marketplace, delivering via your computer screen straight to your doorstep, for only a buck, hundreds of pages of the most violent rhetoric put … Continue reading →

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Great English Vowel Shift II

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 21 by Anton

I am moderator of two lists which received a spam entitled: Nid the chiipaast mads on wab? We gut it! — evidently from a dialect which has lost most of its mid vowels!

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