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• Wikipedia Regulate (song) Synopsis - Wikipedia On a cool, clear night (typical to Southern California) Warren G travels through his neighborhood, searching for women with whom he might initiate sexual intercourse. He has chosen to engage in this pursuit alone. Nate Dogg, having just arrived in Long Beach, seeks…

  August 2 2010, 12:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Thing - Wikipedia Thing may refer to: In philosophy: * An object (philosophy), being, or entity * Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant In history: * Thing (assembly), also transliterated as ting or þing, a historical Germanic governing…

  July 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Wikipedia Anatomy of a wiki-hoax

  June 24 2010, 3:02am | Comments

• Wikipedia Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best ... There are some great ideas here; so many many ideas. Almost too many, need to refer back to this site often.  And, no reason why we couldn't add some of our successful ideas/programmes here too :-)

  June 21 2010, 6:44pm | Comments

• Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game",[4] or alternatively, "You are always playing The Game.") Whenever one thinks about…

  April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments

• Wikipedia Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The word steganography is of Greek origin…

  April 22 2010, 2:50am | Comments

• Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is 'other' than the concept being considered. The term often means a person…

  January 26 2010, 1:48pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Coriolis effect In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. For example, consider two children on opposite sides of a spinning roundabout (carousel), who are throwing a ball to each other. From…

  January 20 2010, 5:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest…

  November 30 2009, 7:12am | Comments

• Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

  October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The last section, titled "Tomorrow's World" is interesting in hindsight: having looked at…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality. Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a discussion of the…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Alan Watts - Wikipedia Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books…

  March 12 2009, 6:07pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Outsider Art | Wikipedia The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (IPA: /aʁ bʁu/; meaning "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the…

  January 6 2009, 5:43am | Comments

• Wikipedia Henry Darger | Wikipedia Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls,…

  January 6 2009, 5:41am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fictional location - Wikipedia Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as backdrop for their fictional works. Fictional locations are also created for use as settings in Role-playing games such as Dungeons…

  December 19 2008, 8:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fictional cities and towns - Wikipedia This category contains fictional towns and cities. If on Earth, they are found in the subcategories by real-world location (state or country), so that those categories may connect with their real-world counterparts.

  December 19 2008, 8:09am | Comments

• Wikipedia List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed. (This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.)

  December 16 2008, 8:52am | Comments

• Wikipedia List of inventors - Wikipedia This is a list of inventors.

  October 6 2008, 3:35am | Comments

• Wikipedia Phaedrus (dialogue) - Wikipedia After Phaedrus concedes that this speech was certainly better than any Lysias could compose, they begin a discussion of the nature and uses of rhetoric itself. After showing that speechmaking itself isn't something reproachful, and that what is truly shameful is to engage…

  September 28 2008, 10:24am | Comments

• Wikipedia Textual criticism - Wikipedia Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts. Ancient scribes often made errors or alterations, while copying manuscripts by hand.[1] Given a manuscript copy,…

  September 16 2008, 11:23am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alphabetic principle - Wikipedia The alphabetic principle is the understanding that letters are used to represent speech sounds and that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken words. The alphabetic principle is the foundation of any alphabetic writing system, which is the most…

  September 3 2008, 11:01am | Comments

• Wikipedia Novgorod Codex - Wikipedia The only known hyper-palimpsest: the Novgorod Codex, in which maybe hundreds of texts have left their traces on the wooden back wall of a wax tablet

  June 24 2008, 2:12pm | Comments

• Wikipedia MetaGlossary.com MetaGlossary harvests definitions from the entire web, the world's largest, constantly-updated repository of information. Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day. MetaGlossary is as dynamic as the we

  April 21 2008, 2:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Collocation - Wikipedia Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation refers to the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepos

  March 25 2008, 4:08pm | Comments

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• Wikipedia Regulate (song) Synopsis - Wikipedia On a cool, clear night (typical to Southern California) Warren G travels through his neighborhood, searching for women with whom he might initiate sexual intercourse. He has chosen to engage in this pursuit alone. Nate Dogg, having just arrived in Long Beach, seeks…

  August 2 2010, 12:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Thing - Wikipedia Thing may refer to: In philosophy: * An object (philosophy), being, or entity * Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant In history: * Thing (assembly), also transliterated as ting or þing, a historical Germanic governing…

  July 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Wikipedia Anatomy of a wiki-hoax

  June 24 2010, 3:02am | Comments

• Wikipedia Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best ... There are some great ideas here; so many many ideas. Almost too many, need to refer back to this site often.  And, no reason why we couldn't add some of our successful ideas/programmes here too :-)

  June 21 2010, 6:44pm | Comments

• Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game",[4] or alternatively, "You are always playing The Game.") Whenever one thinks about…

  April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments

• Wikipedia Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The word steganography is of Greek origin…

  April 22 2010, 2:50am | Comments

• Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is 'other' than the concept being considered. The term often means a person…

  January 26 2010, 1:48pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Coriolis effect In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. For example, consider two children on opposite sides of a spinning roundabout (carousel), who are throwing a ball to each other. From…

  January 20 2010, 5:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

  January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest…

  November 30 2009, 7:12am | Comments

• Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

  October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986. The last section, titled "Tomorrow's World" is interesting in hindsight: having looked at…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality. Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a discussion of the…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Alan Watts - Wikipedia Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books…

  March 12 2009, 6:07pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Outsider Art | Wikipedia The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (IPA: /aʁ bʁu/; meaning "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the…

  January 6 2009, 5:43am | Comments

• Wikipedia Henry Darger | Wikipedia Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls,…

  January 6 2009, 5:41am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fictional location - Wikipedia Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as backdrop for their fictional works. Fictional locations are also created for use as settings in Role-playing games such as Dungeons…

  December 19 2008, 8:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Fictional cities and towns - Wikipedia This category contains fictional towns and cities. If on Earth, they are found in the subcategories by real-world location (state or country), so that those categories may connect with their real-world counterparts.

  December 19 2008, 8:09am | Comments

• Wikipedia List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed. (This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.)

  December 16 2008, 8:52am | Comments

• Wikipedia List of inventors - Wikipedia This is a list of inventors.

  October 6 2008, 3:35am | Comments

• Wikipedia Phaedrus (dialogue) - Wikipedia After Phaedrus concedes that this speech was certainly better than any Lysias could compose, they begin a discussion of the nature and uses of rhetoric itself. After showing that speechmaking itself isn't something reproachful, and that what is truly shameful is to engage…

  September 28 2008, 10:24am | Comments

• Wikipedia Textual criticism - Wikipedia Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts. Ancient scribes often made errors or alterations, while copying manuscripts by hand.[1] Given a manuscript copy,…

  September 16 2008, 11:23am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alphabetic principle - Wikipedia The alphabetic principle is the understanding that letters are used to represent speech sounds and that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken words. The alphabetic principle is the foundation of any alphabetic writing system, which is the most…

  September 3 2008, 11:01am | Comments

• Wikipedia Novgorod Codex - Wikipedia The only known hyper-palimpsest: the Novgorod Codex, in which maybe hundreds of texts have left their traces on the wooden back wall of a wax tablet

  June 24 2008, 2:12pm | Comments

• Wikipedia MetaGlossary.com MetaGlossary harvests definitions from the entire web, the world's largest, constantly-updated repository of information. Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day. MetaGlossary is as dynamic as the we

  April 21 2008, 2:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Collocation - Wikipedia Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation refers to the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepos

  March 25 2008, 4:08pm | Comments

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