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Thursday, 2004 August 26, 11:17 — heraldry, music+verse

what do you get when you cross a zebra?

Sir George Martin’s new coat of arms

Sunday, 2004 August 22, 17:00 — eye-candy, mathematics

not a butterfly’s wing

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

Sunday, 2004 August 22, 16:18 — cinema

movies rented this week

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.

Sunday, 2004 August 22, 13:12 — constitution

political speech

Alan K. Henderson sells shirts and a bumpersticker with the slogan

McCain/Feingold ’04
SILENCE THE VOTE!

Sunday, 2004 August 22, 12:57 — fandom

lethally cuute

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

Saturday, 2004 August 21, 12:01 — politics

grrr!

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 between covers since Progress Publishers collected Stalin’s speeches.

This is conservatism. There’s no use in denying it. The war party and American conservatism are interchangeable and inseparable.

Saturday, 2004 August 21, 10:56 — language, spam

Great English Vowel Shift II

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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