Monthly Archives: January 2006

yet another state murder in progress

Brad Spangler provides contact info for the DA of Placer County, whose job it is to persecute Steve Kubby for trying to stay alive by unapproved means.

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one nocturne deserves

I’m on graveyard shift. Last night there were two of us but tonight I have the floor to myself. It’s so slow, I’d be tempted to strip down and run laps, if I could be sure there are no cameras; … Continue reading

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someone blew their self-reference roll

So there’s a banner ad (on Greg Dean’s Real Life Comics) that reads: Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend but do diamonds hold all of her d20’s? Yeah, we didn’t think so. Naturally, each “o” in the second line … Continue reading

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how to write about Africa

Binyavanga Wainaina in Granta Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these. If you must … Continue reading

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truncated icosahedra

I learn to my surprise that the iconic soccer ball is younger than I am.

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the urge to meddle

I recently began contributing to Wikipedia; my biggest contribution so far is these tables of convex uniform polychora (the data are borrowed, the arrangement mine). After a few days of this, wherever I see a webpage with awkward language I … Continue reading

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on the design of namespaces

My home address is of the form m Rivendell Lane, #n. Rivendell Lane (name changed) is a condo with multiple buildings; each building contains multiple dwellings, each with an outside door. When tradesmen come calling, most of the time their … Continue reading

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