Monday, November 4, 2002|
The Raven has an interesting thread on the loss of languages. 11:08:13 PM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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Skiffle to the End of the Line
"Musicians dream of this: Skiffle superstar and the rock at the heart of the Brit Invasion, Lonnie Donegan (MBE), at age 71, collapsed midway through a set yesterday, and passed away shortly..."
[TeledyN] 11:01:55 PM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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klogs: bottoms up KM development
"My recommendation: Start simple. Get that working and then add complexity when there is demand for it."
[Via Serious Instructional Technology]
Good plan - end user demand for complexity is fairly low... 9:58:57 PM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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Novelist Mistry cancels U.S. book tour over racial profiling
"As a person of color he was stopped repeatedly and rudely at each airport along the way -- to the point where the humiliation to him and his wife (with whom he has been traveling) has become unbearable," said a statement from Mistry's publicist." 9:56:05 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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Thanks to John for pointing me to the Phrase Finder site. As in
an albatross around his neck
or (my mom used to say this)
not worth a tinker's dam
or
Odds bodkins. 9:02:04 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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Word Up: Keeping Languages Alive
"More than half of the world's languages are expected to disappear within the next century. A group of researchers hope to save thousands of them on a single, tiny disk."
[Wired News] 8:50:11 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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My thoughts are with Dave and his father Leon, who is very ill and in the hospital. 8:43:21 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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An eBook usability triangle
"Successful onscreen publishing, whether in Help or eBook format, requires attention to appearance, behavior, and identity" 8:33:12 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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