Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[tikay]

Answering my own questions here, but wowzer......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica



 

The 'Criticisms' section is very interesting.

And in another "times have so changed", is this......

Critics have charged past editions with racism and sexism. For instance, the 11th edition (1910–1911) characterises the Ku Klux Klan as protecting the white race and restoring order to the American South after the American Civil War, citing the need to "control the negro", to "prevent any intermingling of the races" and "the frequent occurrence of the crime of rape by negro men upon white women."

[gatso]

Enc Brit is sooo useful.    .....for standing on when you want to get your lappy from the top of the wardrobe.

presumably you also used it to put the lappy there so if you didn't have the encyclopedia you wouldn't have put it there so wouldn't need it to get the lappy

so the encyclopedia has actually created a use for itself, pretty clever in a world where t'internet is rendering it obsolete

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Enc Brit is sooo useful.    .....for standing on when you want to get your lappy from the top of the wardrobe.

presumably you also used it to put the lappy there so if you didn't have the encyclopedia you wouldn't have put it there so wouldn't need it to get the lappy

so the encyclopedia has actually created a use for itself, pretty clever in a world where t'internet is rendering it obsolete

Now that's logic that you can't argue with.

[Bongo]

I'm rather amused by a wikipedia article criticising something else's accuracy.

[tikay]

I'm rather amused by a wikipedia article criticising something else's accuracy.

....says the IT guy.

Paul, I won't have a word said against IT peeps, you know that.

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Does anyone know of a simple programme that I could use to present the results of a survey in the form of a graph or a pie-chart?

[Bongo]

Excel? Open Office Spread Sheet, Google Docs, this web page(http://www.jonwinstanley.com/charts/) by someone I went to uni with.

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Excel? Open Office Spread Sheet, Google Docs, this web page(http://www.jonwinstanley.com/charts/) by someone I went to uni with.

Fabberlious!!

[Tonji]

And whatever happened to Encyclopedia Britannica? Used to be a HUGE business.


A: The Internet


I have a mint condition full set of 1957 Enc Brit in 27 volumes plus Appendix volume. Must see what it is worth, sometime

That would be a big zero.

The only edition vaguely saleable is the 1910 Eleventh Edition on india paper.

I can sell you my 1970s edition with all atlas volumes & dictionaries at a reasonable price, post extra 

[thetank]

How much fun can you have with a thesaurus?! GG dictionaries.

I always thought of a thesaurus as being part of a dictionary.

Now that things are moving away from books, you can click on pretty looking tabs in your online dictionary, to see the thesaurus bit in the same way that you have tabs with etymological information or examples of a where the word has been used.

A thesaurus could no more gg a dictionary than wheels could gg the car.

[AlexMartin]

red, thought u should know; i saw a squirrel eating mushrooms this morning! that was quite a shock.

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red, thought u should know; i saw a squirrel eating mushrooms this morning! that was quite a shock.

According to my sources, (T'internet) squirrels will eat almost anything, including Mushrooms, plants, bulbs etc, even those that may be poisonous to humans. This apparently, is due in part to their short digestive tract, which seems to be able to handle these compounds.

I had a rescue squirrel called Cyril once. He was very fond of tea and biscuits.  

[Tractor]

Stow Horse Fair Pictures : http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9116000/9116065.stm

[RioRodent]

Stow Horse Fair Pictures : http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9116000/9116065.stm

I fancy the last picture may be the subject of some debate? 

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Zelda!