Archive for October, 2007

Public Domain Under Attack

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Why a Great Music Site Died :: Mediacheck :: thetyee.ca

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Times Less

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

In Do the math - The Boston Globe columnist Jan Freeman dismisses objections to the common usage of “three times less than” to mean equal to one third of.

But the Merriam-Webster editors (per JF) are completely off base if they claim that “times less” has never been misunderstood.

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Cave Man DidnT Have Classrooms

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

I got this post by Roger Schank via Stephen Downes and share Stephen’s concern with some of its polemical conclusions. The following counterpoint to Schank’s article may be a bit silly, but no more so than the original.

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