A Different Perspective
What is better than one interesting and slightly humorous taxonomy? Two, you say? How about three?
What is better than one interesting and slightly humorous taxonomy? Two, you say? How about three?
I have a confession to make. I do not like sports. I do not watch sports. I know almost next to nothing about sports.
Sometimes Advanced Search just isn’t enough. On this date last year, you may recall, Google unveiled a Really Advanced Search, with more than a dozen different option fields that included searching rhyming slang, embarrassing grammatical faux pas, font, content that is true, and “this exact word or phrase, whose sum of unicode points is a mersenne prime.”
Exo Sanitations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, is pleased to announce the release of its new Universal Thesaurus. Designed by world-class taxonomists at Exo Sanitations, the Universal Thesaurus is designed to be compact, broad, and inclusive. While the taxonomy is relatively small in size, the terms in this newly deployed controlled vocabulary are general enough to suit all types of documents, datasets, and industries.
Things move very quickly in technology and computing these days. The overwhelming amount of information that is now available is incomprehensible, and it’s certainly a quagmire that is building faster than there are the tools to manage. At least that was the case.
Americans love idioms, probably more than any other country. We shoot the breeze, bend ears, pull legs, and put our feet in our mouths. These bizarre phrases are a staple of our language and conversation style. A collection of these idioms have been published in The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms and the new volume contains hundreds of new entries.
Regardless of your political affilitation, if you have any at all, this entertaining and interesting take on another taxonomy piqued my interest, and hopefully will do the same for you.
I have a confession to make. For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated with time travel. Many books I read as a teenager were related in some way or another with the subject and television shows like Land of the Lost as a child sucked me into the topic and I have never wanted to leave.
Because it is the famously sweet Hallmark holiday and I am feeling a bit silly, I went on search for a Taxonomy of Love. What better day than Valentine's Day than to dissect and tear apart what others see as mystical and ethereal?
Humor me while I share a funny (pun totally intended) with you. I stumbled across A Taxonomy of Cognitive Jokes and the more I […]