Off the Mark

Sunday, 18 Mar 2007
Machery, Edouard amd Luc Faucher. “Social construction and the concept of race.” Philosophy of Science 72 (5): Dec 2005 Proceedings of the 2004 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I Contributed Papers, ed. by Miriam Solomon: 1208-1219.
[BTW, if anyone noticed the discrepancy in my comment that I received this [...]

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Sunday, 11 Mar
Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. 2005. Read:
Shakespeare, The Ghost’s Speech (from Hamlet)
John Donne, “The Flea”
Green, Rebecca. “Relationships in the organization of knowledge: An overview.” In Bean & Green, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge. 3-18. Re-read for Representation & Organization.
“Mereology.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Read because Allen Renear suggested I do so in relation [...]

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You won’t often find me linking to internet video because I don’t watch much of it. But if it were all this funny—luckily it’s not—I’d get no work done at all.
This is some of the absolutely funniest stuff I’ve ever seen in my life. “Swear by mr.deity.”
To my friends who don’t appreciate religious humor, [...]

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Despite working, and schoolwork which needs done, my Spring Break actually began yesterday with my last class of the week.
After class, I attended Metadata Roundtable as I’m wont to do on Wednesdays. Yesterday’s topic was on the Dublin Core Eprints Application Profile. I wasn’t sure I was going at first, but I’m glad I [...]

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I know I owe a couple folks a personal note, which I will get to, but I wanted to offer a quick update for those who are worrying about me.
I’m doing OK. For the moment, anyway.
I had the exterminator come out this afternoon and spray pretty much everything. Best I can tell, the [...]

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Sunday, 4 Mar
Zeng, Marcia L. and Yu Chen. (2003) “Features of an integrated thesaurus management and search system for the networked environment.” In McIlwaine, I. C., Subject retrieval in a networked environment: Proceedings of the IFLA Satellite Meeting held in Dublin, OH 14-16 August 2001 and sponsored by the IFLA Classification and Indexing Section, the [...]

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Several days ago, my PC decided to get stupid. I tried to turn it off right before heading out the door to catch the bus in the morning. It had decided to lock up and whole crap loads of stuff had to be forced to quit. Being in a hurry, I didn’t notice everything [...]

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got a garden of songs
where i grow all my thoughts
wish i could harvest one or two
for some small talk
seems like i’m starving for words
whenever you’re around
nothing on my tongue
and so much in the ground
nothing on my tongue
and so much in the ground
Ani DiFranco. “this bouquet.” Not A Pretty Girl.

Looking back at the [...]

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I just completed the upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2, so please let me know if you notice anything wonky.
In case you haven’t heard, if you upgraded to WordPress 2.1.1 in the last week or so—or at all for safety sake—you should immediately upgrade. It seems the downloadable file was hacked. See “WordPress 2.1.1 Dangerous, [...]

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Saturday - Sunday, 24 - 25 Feb
Lakoff, George. Women, fire and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chaps 6-8.
Sunday, 25 Feb
Vizine-Goetz, Diane. 2004. “Terminology services: Making knowledge organization schemes more accessible to people and computers.” OCLC Newsletter 266 (October/November/December). Available online from http://www.oclc.org/news/publications/newsletters/oclc/2004/266/ in either pdf (PDF:181K/1p.) or html formats.
Vizine-Goetz, Diane, Carol Hickey, [...]

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