spam magnets?

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 April 05 by Anton

I had a look at the Trash folder in which I archive notices of attempted comments on the blog (most of which are spam). Since I last cleaned it, 164 posts have received two or more, and #1301 has had eighteen. Why? 1301 is not obviously a magic number.

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give me liberty or give me subsidies

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 March 29 by Anton

Will Wilkinson spanks someone or other at The New Yorker for worrying too much about income inequality and disregarding the psychological benefits of autonomy.

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talking heaps of goo in spaaace!

Posted on Sunday, 2006 March 26 by Anton

I see that I have not yet mentioned the scifi strip Schlock Mercenary.

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a protected minority?

Posted on Friday, 2006 March 24 by Anton

Hee hee. The Economist says of V for Vendetta:

. . . only fans of detention centres, torture, unfettered government surveillance, screaming-mad television pundits and laws against alternative lifestyles will find anything here that could possibly offend.

Perhaps I’ll go see it today.

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no golf, no glory

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 March 22 by Anton

Of the 87% of Americans who have one, half say they dislike the one they have.

That was this evening’s prize question on KDFC, the classical radio station. When the announcer came on again he said that the answer is not car, job, cell-phone, iPod or spouse, and indeed nothing to do with technology. That inspired me to guess middle name, which was indeed the winning answer. But I declined the prize – golf stuff – and so the announcer didn’t even read my name on the air. Is that justice?

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another one for Perry?

Posted on Tuesday, 2006 March 21 by Anton

How many MacOS experts read this?

When I launch Grapher, I get a Warning:

Font Conflict
Several characters (Greek letters, e.g.) cannot be displayed correctly because of a conflict between the installed fonts. If you are using MathType, please make sure that version 5.0a or higher is installed.

Font Book’s function “Resolve Duplicates” does not help. Any suggestions?

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a surprising choice of medium

Posted on Sunday, 2006 March 19 by Anton

Chris Bliss interprets the Abbey Road suite . . in juggling. It’s awesome. (bigger version, 27MB)

See also the Chris Bliss Diss, in which Jason Garfield does a very similar routine with five balls to Bliss’s three (and some added tricks). Garfield’s friend writes:

Watch the video, and understand: THIS is great juggling. That Bliss guy may put on a good act, but he is not a good juggler. There is a huge difference.

I’m not sensitive to what makes it great juggling, so what I see is that Bliss gives a better show. Garfield’s performance fits the music less well, I think.

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