Humor

Groundhog Day: Names and Recursions

By |February 1st, 2016|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Groundhog Day: Names and Recursions

I’m sure you’re all just like me and waiting anxiously to hear the results from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, whence this very day we will find […]

Intelligence Is Not Only Determined by Language

By |January 27th, 2016|News, semantic|Comments Off on Intelligence Is Not Only Determined by Language

I have people in my life that would accuse me of making this up to justify my own vices. So imagine my extreme joy […]

Lost in Translation

By |January 13th, 2016|News, semantic, Technology|Comments Off on Lost in Translation

It has always been fun to play with automatic translators and see what they come up with. Kids are even doing it with Siri […]

Don’t Blame the Christmas Tree

By |December 25th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Don’t Blame the Christmas Tree

The general public is unaware that there are so many variety of Christmas trees. Sure they know of the blue spruce, a couple types […]

There Are No Words

By |December 2nd, 2015|News|Comments Off on There Are No Words

A picture may say a thousand words, but what about an emoji? Oxford Dictionaries has chosen an emoji as its 2015 word of the […]

Cocktail Logic

By |August 12th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Cocktail Logic

Records management is now handling the details of cocktails. Yes, you read that correctly. The Sydney Morning Herald brought this interesting information to us in […]

Expressing Culture in Coffee Classification

By |July 23rd, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Expressing Culture in Coffee Classification

It is always interesting to me when I find taxonomies of interesting and unusual topics. Even if they aren’t true taxonomies, they are typically […]

Where to Start?

By |July 17th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Where to Start?

The Library of Congress started taking steps in 2010 toward preserving the nation’s increasingly digital heritage — by acquiring Twitter’s entire archive of tweets […]