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• Graphic: How Sustainable is Unsustainable

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 121
  From xkcd.com (hat tip Mark Perry)
  1 day ago

• The 2012 World Intelligence Congress (WIC 2012)

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 120
  The 2012 World Intelligence Congress (WIC 2012) December 4-7, 2012, Macau, China CALL FOR PAPERS Homepage: http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012 A Special Event of the Alan Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turings birth). The congress includes five intelligent informatics ...
  6 days ago

• Random Linguistics Definitions Beginning with the Letter "P"

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 103
  pandialectal A term used primarily in dialectology and sociolinguistics to characterize any linguistic feature, rule, etc., which is applicable to all the dialects of a language. paronymy A term sometimes used in semantic analysis to refer to the relationship between words derived from the same root. It is ...
  1 week ago

• Taking the semantics of swearing literally

  
  The Schizo Stroller — Authority: 112
  What does Fuck off mean?Does it mean you can no longer take your vicarious pleasure out of my suffering.If we then re-inject the connection between the pleasure drive and the erotic principle into the semantics of this form of swearing, are we then, when we refuse the right of someone to tell you to ...
  1 week ago

• Super Tracker Yields Super Nutrition Data

  
  Food+Tech Connect — Authority: 481
  The advice awaited me in my inbox Monday morning. “Use fat-free or low-fat evaporated milk in place of cream in coffee and tea for a smooth taste, more calcium, and little or no fat.”  Low fat evaporated milk? I thought. Why would anyone recommend evaporated milk for healthy eating? The email was one of a [[ ...
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• Press Conf.: Black Pastors Confront Southern Poverty Law Center for Smearing as ‘Hate Groups’ Pro-Family Organizations Opposed to Homosexual Agenda

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 554
  Americans For Truth Press Release January 16, 2012 Contact: Peter LaBarbera; americansfortruth@gmail.com Raleigh pastor Dr. Patrick Wooden rejects the comparison of black civil rights to sinful and unnatural homosexual behavior. MONTGOMERY, Alabama – A coalition of African American pastors and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quarreling, Arguing, and Debating

  
  Dr. Goodword's Language Blog — Authority: 98
  We have lost sight of the different between argue and quarrel so much that we often use them as synonyms of one another. Arguing is reasoning based on facts; quarreling is wrangling angrily over personal preferences using facts or not. We quarrel from entrenched positions; the winner of an argument is whoever ...
  2 weeks ago

• What satisfies your customer?

  
  ComMetrics: social media monitoring => best practice — Authority: 92
  Summary Have you joined HSBC and IBM in using sentiment analysis ? We discuss people’s 4 biggest mistakes . Some time ago, I posted  Sentiment analysis for online content: Honest? , and moderated a discussion about it in our Xing Social Media Monitoring group . This is another update in our 2012 ...
  2 weeks ago

• What I want from Web 3.0

  
  RC Gale — Authority: 106
  I don’t want Web 3.0 to predict my buying habits or push products on me. I don’t want it to be an extension of consumerism. I want it to help me put connections together. I want it to help me research and think and find new ideas. I want it to be an extension of my brain, not my wallet. I want it to guide me to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taking A Candidates Word For It

  
  1115.org — Authority: 109
  Earlier today, the New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane wrote an interesting piece  that delved into the question of whether the news media should add disclaimers to quotes by political figures that can demonstrably be proven false. Brisbane phrased it like this: I’m looking for reader input on whether ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6 Social Media and Text Analytics Questions

  
  Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research — Authority: 99
  The challenge for social media analytics is in going deeper not just broaderBusiness 2 Community did a short interview with me yesterday asking a few questions about social media and text analytics. It’s up on their site now in case you’re interested.I think social media analytics has a lot of growing up to do. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Should You Change or Add to Your Hebrew Name When You Have a Second Conversion?

  
  When You're Converting to Judaism, Sometimes You Just Wanna Know You're Not Crazy — Authority: 106
  I find it interesting that Hebrew names is the #1 topic that brings people to this blog through search engines. I wonder where all this interest in names comes from! Based on the search terms themselves, it appears to be adults choosing a name for themselves, rather than parents naming a baby. Well, this weeks ...
  2 weeks ago

• insourcing

  
  The Laughorist — Authority: 97
  You are hearing it here first: "insourcing" will be the word of the year for 2012. If that prediction turns out to be correct, the dotted red line I am seeing under the word insourcing as I compose this blog post, indicating a strange word or a misspelling, will disappear into the cyber-ether because the word will ...
  2 weeks ago

• Further/Farther on up the Road

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 103
  Lord knows the difference between further and farther has been covered on the internet too many times to count, but if a ballpark number helps to illustrate, consider the following google results: "difference between further and farther" About 14,900,000 results (0.23 seconds) "difference between farther and further" ...
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• Mean What You Say: Overcoming Semantic Confusion in BI

  
  Balanced Insight Blog - Solutions to the challenges of business intelligence delivery — Authority: 85
  We came across a humorous post at a Harvard Business Review blog the other day about silly business language. All the acronyms, consultant-speak, jargony slang and high-tech spin are making basic business communication nearly impossible: you get phrases like, “You should meet this guy with the SIO. He’s sort ...
  2 weeks ago

• Defending the Indefensible

  
  An American Lion - MICRO Print Edition — Authority: 111
  Ann Althouse does a stellar job of trying to defend Christ Christie after his ill-advised oral sex threat to a female heckler. The problem is, Althouse seems to hinge her argument on the transcript and not the tone of voice that Christie used. Having watched Christie make his comments, let me say that Althouse is ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Flawed Justification of the Comment Policy at The Uppsala Initiative

  
  Debunking Denialism — Authority: 105
  No, I am not saying this because my comments where removed or not published. In fact, as far as I can tell, all of the comments I made there have been published. I posted a critical comment about this earlier, but I decided to expand it into a blog post. Today I am going to take on some Swedish allies in the ...
  4 weeks ago

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