Monthly Archives: June 2007

even better than a pony!

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 24 by Anton

spam title of the day: geosynchronous pickup truck

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The first letter in this week’s Economist is from Nikolai Wenzel, assistant professor of economics at Hillsdale College, who says in part: . . . as of 2004 only 55% of America’s health spending was private . . . . this 45% does not capture … Continue reading →

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unseemly small world

Posted on Monday, 2007 June 18 by Anton

I got a spam for Viagra entitled unseemly nation, and 4 minutes later a Korean spam entitled RE: unseemly tomato.

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links without comment

Posted on Monday, 2007 June 18 by Anton

time flows differently in the funnies (except Gasoline Alley and For Better or For Worse) how to argue with a libertarian (Degrees of Freedom) arguments against state support for schools, including some that I had not encountered before

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Takana

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 17 by Anton

I had the idea to design a fantasy script from combinations of a small repertoire of features: namely, subsets of this set of twelve segments. Using a fixed number of segments gives some built-in error-detection. There are 924 subsets of … Continue reading →

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the trouble with imported cars

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 10 by Anton

Amara Graps writes: “Not being a blogger, myself, I’m seeing if the bloggers I know want to pick up this story I wrote.” What happened to Bush’s Cadillac 1? As recorded by a viewer of the motorcade and posted to … Continue reading →

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four million colors

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 10 by Anton

You may know from The Art of Computer Programming §4.1 (citing W. Penney, 1965) that, just as any positive real number can be represented by a bit string in base 2, any complex number can be represented by a bit … Continue reading →

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