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, 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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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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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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Sunday, 18 Feb
Section 5, “Review of current terminology service activity,” in Tudhope, Douglas, Traugott Koch and Rachel Heery. Terminology Services and Technology: JISC State of the Art Review [pdf version] Read for Independent Study.
Henson, Jim, The Muppets and Friends. It’s not easy being green and other things to consider. Reviewed by The Gypsy Librarian.
Don’t care [...]

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Sunday, 11 Feb
Henricus Cornelius Agrippa. Declamation on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex. Translated and edited by Albert Rabil, Jr. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series. Read pp. 13-65.
The resemblance [of sons to mothers] is often evident in their physical appearance but it is always present in their character: if the [...]

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Sunday, 4 Feb
Farrugia, James. (2003) “Model-theoretic semantics for the web.” In WWW 2003, Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on World Wide Web, ACM: 29-38. Read for Ontologies and author visit.
Frege, Gottlob. (1956) “The Thought: A logical inquiry.” Mind, New Series LXV (259) July, 1956: 289-311 [via JSTOR] Read for Ontologies.
Section 4, “Activities with TS,” [...]

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I received my pre-ordered Ani CD, reprieve, in the mail today. Yay! It’s not due in stores until August 8th.
I’ve been “listening” to it over and over while writing the previous post. That said, it’s been mostly serving as background music for now so I’ll refrain from saying much about it.
As a [...]

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Maybe none of you are asking this question, but I have to admit it has been pestering me a lot lately. The sad part is that I honestly don’t have an answer.
I have been pursuing my own self-education this summer amid all the apartment hunting, moving preparations, job searching, relaxing and whatever else I’ve [...]

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