the Case of the Coathangers

Posted on Thursday, 2002 October 24 by Anton

Miles Kington channels A.P.Herbert, sorta: introductory remarks; motive. (Thanks to Michael Travers.)

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hydrogen-ware

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 October 23 by Anton

Toshiba says a notebook computer running on fuel cells is two years away. (From slashdot by way of Bill St Clair – whose blog, I now notice, is “created with Emacs”. You go.)

update 2004 Oct 22: I’m waiting . . .

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“redneck Corvette”

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 October 23 by Anton

What’s the opposite of low-rider?

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ends and means

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 October 23 by Anton

The copyright clause of the US Constitution says: “Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

Other than the Preamble, is this the only passage of the form “to do something general by doing something specific”?

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no No Outlet

Posted on Monday, 2002 October 21 by Anton

Alas, Adam Greengard has wearied of writing/drawing No Outlet, the thinking dog’s comic strip. I’ll eagerly await his next project until, y’know, it slips my mind. (As one of his characters might say.)

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what right?

Posted on Monday, 2002 October 21 by Anton

Now and again one hears the phrase “Israel’s right to exist”. But I can’t recall ever encountering a statement of either the substance or the grounds for such a ‘right’. Are there states that exist without right (other than all of them), or states that have a right to exist but do not exist? If the form of government is altered, but not the boundaries, is a right violated?

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today in Poetry Corner

Posted on Monday, 2002 October 21 by Anton

“To his Koi Mistress” by Troy McClure.

Okay, not really, because there’s no way I could do justice to the premise.

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