Dan Visel at if:book, in a post titled "Wikipedia Before Wikipedia," looks at the Trictionary, a grass-roots trilingual dictionary (English, Spanish, and Chinese) created between 1978 and 1981 by high school students on New York's Lower East Side. Here's some text (from Tom MacArthur's 1986 book Wor...

In no particular order (and with no particular forethought): 1) The Big Three need access to credit, sure; it's a huge industry, credit is tight, and an underrecognized chunk of their business is tied up in financing loans, investing pensions, etc. -- GM is really a bank with a side business in auto...

Three "D.P." Moynihan's and a pair a Tiegs:...

Blogs define the undefinable -- that's why they're blogs and not logs or frogs. Monsieur, you might ask, mais, qu'est-ce que c'est le gridskipping? Indeed, all these years and nobody's had the balls to just ask. Is it because Gridskipper is a loan word that only cool, edumacated people know and prac...

Blogs define the undefinable — that's why they're blogs and not logs or frogs. Monsieur, you might ask, mais, qu'est-ce que c'est le gridskipping? Indeed, all these years and nobody's had the balls to just ask. Is it because Gridskipper is a loan word that only cool, edumacated people know and...

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The Double Wide mourns the loss of our founding editor, William F. Buckley....

I just wrote "IAWTC" in the margins of this article. Hilarious....

Cataloging was just switched to an online course. Now I have two online courses and two campus ones. Never taken an online course before. This could be interesting....