Monthly Archives: October 2010

link cautiously

Posted on Monday, 2010 October 25 by Anton

Jonas discovered that, if you write a comment here with three links, you’ll be taken to a 403 page without explanation. I haven’t found the configuration setting that does this.

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webcomics update

Posted on Sunday, 2010 October 17 by Anton

Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life came back to life in July, after 15 months dormant. That doesn’t happen every day!

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toward a graceful imitation of the crude

Posted on Friday, 2010 October 15 by Anton

I’ve long had an idea to design “outline” typefaces which, at appropriate low resolution, would mimic certain bitmap fonts that have sentimental resonance. The orange discs are the original dots, of course. The blue arcs are least-squares fits (linear, quadratic) … Continue reading →

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superstition and the market

Posted on Thursday, 2010 October 14 by Anton

The local Humane Society has such a hard time placing black cats that it offers a deep discount on the adoption fee.

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yet another flavor of referral spam

Posted on Friday, 2010 October 08 by Anton

In September, some clown created “user profiles” on thousands of sites in the names jennyl8221, jamessylar33, alberty788, melvinwong522, jinnlost5, rickdcurry82, jeffsmith7223, davemartial223. How do I know this? My HTTP log shows two thousand hits (most of them from customers of … Continue reading →

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