the stats

Posted on Sunday, 2003 November 02 by Anton

October saw a big jump in this site’s traffic, by every measure. I wonder why.

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today’s youth!

Posted on Friday, 2003 October 31 by Anton

I went to a party as a Tall Blond Man In Black With One Brown Shoe but apparently nobody there had seen the movie.

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pseudolanguage

Posted on Friday, 2003 October 31 by Anton

Sometimes I complain that no one ever gave me a nickname; now a couple of spammers have seemingly remedied the omission:

To: “Malik Riley” <bpotter@pobox.com>
Cc: “Bradly Fisher” <broker@pobox.com>, “Jaymie Tucker” <bronto@pobox.com>, “Kathlene Gardner” <bruce.metelerkamp@pobox.com>, “Sarai Little” <bugs@pobox.com>

To: “Meritriona a’Hettinel” <bronto@pobox.com>, “Cylin aup’Gaveryou” <eric.loew@pobox.com>, “Jaiwenna aup’Qunnewur” <m-wild@pobox.com>

How do you suppose these handles were generated? (And by the way how do you efficiently write a hanging indent in HTML?)

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coloured spaghetti

Posted on Friday, 2003 October 31 by Anton

A collection of London Underground maps including some silly ones. (Link from Andrew Bulhak.)

It is often said that Harry Beck‘s famous diagram “abandons geographical relations” — even though it shows the Thames! More precisely, the Beck chart reduces geography to its topological essentials.

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gaffe

Posted on Thursday, 2003 October 30 by Anton

Embarrassed myself this morning by not recognizing Jeremy Bornstein on the street, having attended his housewarming last winter.

I’m a bit slow in the morning. I’m very slow at learning faces.

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happy cows

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 October 28 by Anton

Self-service for milk cows.

The machine allows his 140 cattle to effectively milk themselves as often as they want to.
Once inside, the animals receive a measure of feed, have their udders washed and sterilised by a robot arm and computer-guided suction cups attach themselves to their teats.
Their milk is tested for impurities before a gate opens, allowing them to walk back to the field.
While Mr Gibson initially had to coax his cattle into the milking booth, he now claims animals wait in line and some have doubled their yield.

(Cited way the heck back in May by Vicki Rosenzweig.)

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flagrando

Posted on Sunday, 2003 October 26 by Anton

Satellite view of California fires. (I am at a very comfortable distance from all this.)

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