The rationale for my focus on the airplane owes to how this topic reveals diverging portrayals in each of the three languages under discussion, such that these Wikipedia entries provide fruitful territory for considering the links between languages and historical knowledge. In addition to encyclopedic...
Wikipedia’s algorithm ponders more weight to people who write and edit more articles: journalists; and their followers, generally more journalists who represent a very specific point of view. Even when the editors of this controversies try to keep a neutral tone to convince all readers that the...
Note that the macro \`\printedbooks` (in the file `main.tex`) with the marks of all the books we want to process (see section~\ref[main]) contains ``s, not ``s. In the third parameter after \`\BookTitle`, the book names are in brackets. File with 66 entries of \`\Book...
On Nathaniel Philbrick’s “In the Heart of the Sea” 24 Feb In the Heart of the Sea [2000] by Nathaniel Philbrick (Photo from Wikipedia)Certain events in human history become something more than just a popular story or a factoid in a text book. Some events become growing, breathing, ...
Episodes ranged from the brilliant, with installments like "73 Yards" and "Boom," to more disappointing entries like "Space Babies" and "The Devil's Chord."Right now, the future of the Whoniverse at Disney is somewhat precarious, although we've got at least one more season and a spin...
25 Black Female Singers Who Defined 2000s Music Culture Share Pin In the 2000s, lots of amazing Black female singers lit up the music scene. Artists like Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, and Ashanti brought their own styles and sounds, making hits that we still groove to today. From ...
This bit of mainstream science is not blasted on TV “news,” but you can read about it in Wikipedia, or at this interesting website where I found the above graph. Earth’s historical temperatures gyrate wildly to and from the dominant freezing cycles, but for humans, this planet is ...
The idea was that people would run the code against the Twiki, then delete the marked entries. After a couple code reviews (thanks Derek and Nick!), the script was packaged and put onto GitHub as the TwikiChecker a.k.a. Twiki Health Checker. Sep 3, 2012 What's your average ...
I am leaving the old entries as-is so we always have this living shrine to my incompetence. After last week and figuring I had this totally solved, it turns out I was wrong. Last week’s episode had nothing to do with the series. We’re back this week to apparently what is the ...
Your blog entries are full of errors.If you’d represent yourself, yourwriting,so poorly, how are you going to represent this company? So, cancel the angry reply you were planning. Refrain from telling me it wasn’tyourfault that Word’s resume template screwed up the bullets, or that I...