Monthly Archives: October 2007

Public Domain Under Attack

Posted on 2007-10-29 by alan

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

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Times Less

Posted on 2007-10-21 by alan

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 … Continue reading →

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Cave Man DidnT Have Classrooms

Posted on 2007-10-03 by alan

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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