not enough lampposts

Posted on Saturday, 2006 September 16 by Anton

Bastards.

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ever wonder what a Toon funeral is like?

Posted on Saturday, 2006 September 02 by Anton

scene cut from Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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another batch of miscellany

Posted on Monday, 2006 August 21 by Anton

I was awakened this morning by geese. What do they talk about as they fly?

Flickr gallery capturing people’s reactions on seeing goatse for the first time. (Cited in a comment on Malfunction Junction.)

A novel method for the removal of ear cerumen in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. I especially enjoyed the footnotes. (Cited by devnull.)

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a perfect caper

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 August 16 by Anton

Today I watched Inside Man, my first Spike Lee joint since She’s Gotta Have It (1986) and, even more surprisingly, my first Denzel Washington ever. It’s swell. My housemate said after the opening shot, “Clive Owen is so great I’ll even watch him doing an American accent.”

I also watched an hour of Vermilion Pleasure Night, a Japanese cult tv show. Um. Imagine the most annoying of SNL’s recurring bits all strung together . . . .

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security theater kills

Posted on Tuesday, 2006 August 15 by Anton

Fake identifying documents save lives in Iraq:

At any time, the relevant authorities in Iraq could have decreed that all people get (as near as possible) forgery-proof biometric ID cards and carry them at all times – a great way to batten down a country, right?

Doing so would have fed directly into the strategy being used by the enemies of peace and security in Iraq today: setting up fake checkpoints and killing people who arrive there members of the wrong sect. Identity cards had a role in the Rwandan genocide just over 10 years ago, as well.

(Cited by Bruce Schneier.)

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spam title of the week

Posted on Sunday, 2006 August 13 by Anton

nun isn’t weatherproof

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one, um . . .

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 August 09 by Anton

Number Systems of the World: lists of number-words from 0 to 100, ranked, somewhat arbitrarily, by “complexity”. (Cited by LanguageHat.) To me the most remarkable is Alamblak (#7) whose number-words are all compounded from the words for 1, 2, 5 and 20, thus 56 is yima hosfi tir hosfirpati rpat = twenties two, fives two-one, one.

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