QotD

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 09 by Anton

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference. —Marshall McLuhan

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Framestore CFC Press Release

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 09 by Anton

noitulovE, a quick recap (in reverse) of the last few hundred million years of life; gorgeous animation (Quicktime). Cited in povray.off-topic by Gilles Tran.

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partial translation

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 08 by Anton

I see that in Yahoo’s Chinese translation my name is “安東 Sherwood”, i.e. Anton becomes ‘peace+east’ (which in Japanese is pronounced antō, unfortunately).

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travelogue

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 October 05 by Anton

Someone mounted a camera on the back seat of a convertible to shoot a compressed record of a trip from Los Angeles to New York.

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a day’s air traffic

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 01 by Anton

I downloaded this two years ago but never watched it before: animation of US airline movements around the clock

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“Joss Whedon is my master now”

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 September 28 by Anton

Naturally, Serenity rawks. I’ll have to see it again with fewer noisy fans to drown out the jokes!

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a symptom of something or other

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 September 27 by Anton

Each member of the California State Bar Association (which is a state entity) has a number, and the Bar’s website lets you search by number or by name. Barrister No. 1 was William Harrison Waste, admitted in June 1894. The highest number is 237747, belonging to Rex John Phillips, admitted in September 2005. You might ask, how long has it taken for the roster to double? Easy: look up barrister #118874, Andrew Henry Milinkevich, admitted in July 1985.

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