Category: everything else

  • NetLing Release and Website

    From the Release Announcement: The bits are on the wire and NetLing is live! See the wiki at http://www.netling.org/ [The website is no longer available –josh 8 aug 2008] NetLing is a tool to aid in historical analysis and live monitoring of lexical variation using Internet-available bodies of text as corpora (i.e. Web, Usenet, mailing…

  • Down with Eclipse.org’€™s Flirtation with Playboy

    Okay, this irks me. Good old Eclipse, the Java development environment, is taking advantage of the generous offer of “Playboy Enterprises”€ to host a mirror site of much of its software. I publicly protest this tacit endorsement of one of the great producers of filth and destroyers of homes in our country. Eclipse Foundation, you…

  • Longing and Delight

    The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things — the beauty, the memory of our own past — are good images of what…