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Books

It’s cool to be evil

I think Dave’s got the right of it: kicking Google, like kicking Wikipedia, is the new cool. Oh, I have my doubts about both; but then, I’ve always had my doubts about both. Even when the lemmings flocked on the side of do no evil. I do want to point out, though that my Practical RDF book is in […]

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Writing

Clarion call

AKMA wrote on authenticity and referenced me in his work. He wrote: Or to put it another way (because I admire Shelley, and I want to share out my links), if we were to find out that the Burning Bird’s phoenix-song were very carefully composed, to convey the effect of having been written by someone very […]

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Writing

Word

This is an environment composed almost exclusively of words. They may be written, they may be spoken, and they might even be converted into images or code and thus need to be interpreted, but ultimately this is about words. Some of the words I like, others I don’t. Some of the words may incite me […]

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Writing

Eats, Shoots, and leaves does Ms Manners

Lynn Truss, the author of the acclaimed Eats, Shoots, and Leaves is interviewed in the New York Times about her new book, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door. The interviewer, Deborah Solomon, does a marvelous job capturing the uniqueness that is Truss, but […]

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Weblogging Writing

Mundane

am eating an apple. I am eating a red apple. I am eating a red Fuji apple. I am eating a juicy sweet, red and green Fuji apple. I am eating a juicy, barely blushed Fuji apple, which leaves a tart-sweet taste across my tongue. I am eating the apple, and the taste takes me […]