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Just Shelley

Uncle Sam owns my soul

I just finished doing my taxes for 2004. I had filed an extension in April, as I didn’t have money to pay for taxes then. The day of reckoning has finally arrived, and I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I only owe 4.00 for Missouri state taxes. The bad […]

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Just Shelley

Just stuff

I am going to take a timeout from writing about technology and lists and weblogging and “____women_____” (fill blanks with relevant info), to write about, well, stuff that isn’t technology, lists, weblogging, and not necessarily women, in general, but woman, which is me. As such, this will be a quiet post, littered with photographs, most […]

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Stuff

Looking for solid foundations

Peter Merholz writes an exceptionally good response to Clay Shirky’s Ontology is Overrated. Clay’s whole argument predicates a black-and-white distinction between evil hierarchy on one side and good tags on the other… And while Clay is right to question hierarchy, and, particularly, Yahoo’s less-than-optimal use of it, he neglects to distinguish truly useful forms of professionally-created classification and […]

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Semantics Web

Snapshot in semantic time

Danny Ayers: I’m guessing Shelley’s comment was where the ‘lower-case semantic web’ thing originated. You betcha. And I’m going after royalties, baby. I figure a dime for every mention, and my taxes will be paid and groceries bought. For a month. Yup, I just hope that Technorati has lots of money. Lots and lots of money. Corante, […]

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Critters People

Shout out to the squid people

Let’s hear it for the Squid People! Fans of all things invertebrate! Martin Wisse is a squid fan or at least a family member is. And PZ Meyers at Pharyngula, my favorite BioMan, points to a great video that gives one pause when expressing a wish to meet a live Architeuthis Dux or Architeuthis Colossal in person someday.