Archive for January, 2008
08-01-30
Tags:CiteULike Computing Research Watch List
I am becoming more and more disappointed with CiteULike. Here’s my latest complaint:
They recently added a hidden field with MD5-coded junk in the copy/post page. The code is at the bottom of the HTML code. I fyou ommit the field of the two junk MD5 strings are changed, […]
dirty MD5 trick?
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08-01-28
Tags: You can get DNA samples and you can measure telomeres, but you still can’t measure causality.
I haven’t read the original article, that that’s beside the point. Talking about semiotics, DNA represents the ultimate causality in popular thinking and media reporting. In this case, do stressed folks get less physical activities, or does activities reduce […]
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08-01-24
Tags:Paperville Research psychology + semiology of mathematics
So I went first to linguistics and then, to what proved to be a lot more promising , to semiotics. Since then, I’ve written about mathematics from a semiotic/semiological point of view, first from the French structuralist one stemming […]
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08-01-23
Tags:psychology Peirce’s Arisbe - Quotes of the Day
The psychologists undertake to locate various mental powers in the brain; and above all consider it as quite certain that the faculty of language resides in a certain lobe; but I believe it comes decidedly nearer the truth (though not really true) that language resides in the tongue. […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Psychology) | 0
08-01-22
Tags:Chinese English Linguistics Language Log: A new way of 寫ing Mandarin reports a trendy expression in IM/internet Chinese.
A paper by Jia Lou, "From English morpheme to symbol of Chinese netizenship: Exploring -ing in Chinese blogs", NWAV 34, 2005.
I am too removed from the speaker community to have any intuition. But I was struck […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
08-01-10
Tags:Linguistics paraorthography Email is often misinterpreted. Duh. And now there is even psychological proof of just that.
The Secret Cause of Flame Wars
"Don’t work too hard," wrote a colleague in an e-mail today. Was she sincere or sarcastic? I think I know (sarcastic), but I’m probably wrong.
According to recent research published in the Journal […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
08-01-07
Tags:Computing Watch List I have been struggling with TightVNC and Windows Vista. See this earlier post for problems with the combination.
UltraVNC now has a Beta version that supports Vista. The 1.04RC6 allows you to log in at the login screen, and works well with the annoying User Account Control. It is reportedly compatible with other […]
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