Archive for June, 2007
07-06-30
Tags:OddsnEnds
Aussies have fun with homo(-i)phones. Another title at the buttom right corner is really puzzling.
No hard cell needed for iPhones
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07-06-28
Tags:Computing OddsnEnds
AppleInsider | Santa Steve dishes free iPhones, next-gen iPod and Mac hints reports:
The Apple co-founder reportedly described the handset’s impending launch as an effort "to put the third leg onto a chair with only two legs" — the first two legs being the company’s Mac and iPod businesses.
English is not […]
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07-06-28
Tags:eye movement OddsnEnds reading Teaching Mark Liberman has a post on Language Log: Reading two pages at once that goes back to Barbara Partee. Reportedly ("A genius explains", 2/12/2005), Kim Peek, the real-life Rain Man, was able to do this feat. I […]
"Peek can read two pages simultaneously, one with each eye."
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07-06-24
Tags:Education History reading Teaching History of the horn-book was the Book of the Month of King’s College library last month.
Andrew W. Tuer. History of the horn-book. London: Leadenhall Press, 1896. [Rare Books Collection Z1033.H8 T8] When little children first are brought to schooleA Horne-booke is a necessarie toole. William Fennor, Cornucopiæ; […]
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07-06-21
Tags:Education policitcs reading Teaching Education Week reports: The Senate measure, approved 26-3 by the Appropriations Committee, would cut nearly $230 million from Reading First, a 22.3 percent decrease from the $1.1 billion it is receiving in fiscal 2007. Lawmakers want to make sure management problems cited in a series of reports by the Education […]
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07-06-21
Tags:Linguistics psychology SYMBOLS INVOLVE ICONS . . . we do not have to reflect upon the word as a sign but . . . it comes to affect the intellect as though it had that quality which it connotes. I call […]
Writings of Charles S. Peirce 1,172f 1865 MS 94 Harvard Lecture I
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07-06-21
Tags:Computing Research Watch List Tobii offers 120Hz eye trackers, up from 60Hz. The trade off is smaller head movement tollerance, from 44cm to 30cm at 120Hz. You can downsample to 60Hz and get larger range. Tobii X120 Eye Tracker Tobii x120 Eye Tracker Accuracy Drift Data rate Freedom of movement Binocular tracking Eye […]
0.5 degree
<0.3 degree
60Hz
120Hz
44×22×30cm
30×22×30cm
Yes
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07-06-20
Tags: An antidote to Bichakjian, something I read a couple of years back and just found under piles of junk on my desk. W. Tecumseh Fitch, - 2005 - The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review
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07-06-18
Tags:Computing Watch List
IMified has been around for a few months. It’s an instant messaging-based service that provides access to other web-based functionalities via custom-made modules. Sounds too abstract? Simply add one of their IM accounts to your contact list and say "hi".
Here’s the beginning of my first encounter with IMinied:
1:32 PM me: hi
imified: Your […]
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07-06-13
Tags:CiteULike Research
Duke’s Library Hack notes an articles on the UK journal Ariadne titled “Citeulike: A Researcher’s Social Bookmarking Service“
This article describes Citeulike, a fusion of Web-based social bookmarking services and traditional bibliographic management tools. It discusses how Citeulike turns the linear ‘gather, collect, share’ process inherent in academic research into a circular ‘gather, collect, […]
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07-06-09
Tags:Chinese dialect Linguistics Paperville phonology A title like this automatically triggers dismissal, but looking at the first sentence of the abstract, I’d give it a second chance — I reserve my judgment until after I read it. Linguistic tone is related to the population frequency of the adaptive haplogroups of two brain size […]
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07-06-08
Tags:Education Linguistics OT Paperville phonological awareness reading Teaching "I had learned symbols … 1 and 2 and 3 … so I wanted that for five-letter words … I had this idea that … I was going to know just by looking … But there’s no way you could possibly take […]
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07-06-06
Tags:OddsnEnds Lords of the Logistic and a lot more of crazy pictures.
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07-06-06
Tags:evolution language Linguistics OED Research Teaching While we are on evolution, I might as well add some etymology to the mix. It turned out that my folk etymology of the word had a big hole. evolving, as in turning […]
The word Evolution used to bring up the following thoughts in my mind.
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07-06-06
Tags:evolution Linguistics Paperville Research symbol symbol system
David and Ann Premack’s 2005 commentary on Science got it right (Evolution Versus Invention — Premack and Premack 307 (5710): 673b — Science):
…it is not language per se that is critical for understanding the transition from analog to digital numeracy, but the change from […]
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07-06-06
Tags:Linguistics Paperville It’s a matter of word play, I used to think, when people talk about the evolution of language. Evolution can simply be the synonym of change, development, improvement, optimization, adaptation, etc. More often than not, the evolution of language is talked about in these senses, which have only tangential relationship with Darwinian evolution. I […]
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07-06-05
Tags:ajax Computing Research scripting zotero Zotero is ready to take off, rolling over Endnotes on the runway.
[all the praise go here ]
But - you know it’s coming - here are some of the things I’d like to change. Sorry, no time for links now.
Automatic PDF fetching
Looks like the screen […]
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07-06-04
Tags: This is the Wu’er Kaixi I knew 18 years ago.
And this is what he looks like today, roughly, in Taiwan.
He has an article on WSJ today, The Tiananmen Knot. Nothing unexpected of him.
I have grown to talk less and less about 6.4. So let’s just stop here.
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07-06-04
Tags:Linguistics OED psychology What is a "word?"
A question that linguists cannot answer is not a problem for psychologists, it seems. While Larry Trask treats the word as a collection of related but separate units in different linguistic domains — phonological words, orthographic words, grammatical words, lexical words ("dictionary words"), among others — your Psych101 […]
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07-06-02
Tags:eye movement Paperville reading Research
I stumbled on a surprisingly comprehensive entry on Wikipedia on Eye movement in music reading.
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