Monthly Archives: January 2008

I ain’t got no software

Posted on Sunday, 2008 January 20 by Anton

… that I can depend on. I updated my MacOS to 10.5 “Leopard”, and now the shell command sort no longer recognizes the ‘+’ option (to skip a specified number of words before beginning the key). Argh.

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a curious concentration

Posted on Tuesday, 2008 January 15 by Anton

All of the Cyrillic spam I see has Moscow phone numbers (495). How come no one in the rest of the Slavic Orthodox world is getting in on the game? Next day: What d’ya know: I got one with (3435), … Continue reading →

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Court unpacking

Posted on Tuesday, 2008 January 15 by Anton

One occasionally hears that the upcoming election is especially important because the incoming President may have to fill umpty-leven vacancies on the Supreme Court. To remove this jackpot effect, I had the idea of letting the President appoint one member … Continue reading →

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LiveLand

Posted on Saturday, 2008 January 05 by Anton

Here’s a pretty thing: an animated fractal mountain generator (Java). The text unfortunately doesn’t explain anything about the algorithm, but it’s evidently the familiar triangle-subdivision mountain – with the offsets oscillating, so you see the land rising and tilting and … Continue reading →

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