Category: everything else
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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…
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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…
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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…