adding to the trickle

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 February 08 by Anton

What d’ya know, I see I’ve been blogrolled by Sunni Maravillosa; and according to Google this blog is “related” to a page on intestinal roundworm.

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under the hurtling moons

Posted on Sunday, 2005 February 06 by Anton

Too cool! Titan appears to have rivers of liquid methane.

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the Hugo was just the beginning

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 February 02 by Anton

Seeing a twist of yellow ribbon stuck sidewise on the tails of many cars, it struck me that the present conflict would be better symbolized if the loose ends of the ribbon were joined.

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remember the Future?

Posted on Monday, 2005 January 31 by Anton

how a “home computer” could look like in the year 2004. I wonder what the big wheel is for.

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nature itself

Posted on Saturday, 2005 January 29 by Anton

Yesterday we took a spin in the exuberantly wooded Santa Cruz Mountains. Bright winter sunshine with patches of rain made for a superb light.

On the way home near sunset, I saw my first sun pillar.

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linky goodness

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 January 25 by Anton

Mike Ruff: open carry as propaganda

Will Wilkinson: Remitting Disaster

Arimaa, “the first game that was designed intentionally to be difficult for computers to play.”

James D. Miller: The Depolarizing Power of the Blogosphere

Once More With Hobbits: filk of a peculiar kind

Michael McMenamin in Reason: T R gets a bad rap from isolationists

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interruption of service

Posted on Saturday, 2005 January 22 by Anton

Today’s excuse for inactivity is that my monitor is on the fritz. At first I thought it was a previously unseen mode of a screensaver that looks like bad TV reception: the blue channel suddenly covered the whole screen with skewed scan-lines. Then it was okay for a bit, and then the blue dropped out completely; shuffle to taste.

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