Brian Jones in his blog entry of 11 July 2006, comments on their recently announced ODF Translator: It's directly exposed in the UI. We're even going to make it really easy to initially discover the download. We already need to do this for XPS and … [Continue reading] about Traduttore, Traditore
50 years ago
I find it interesting to take a look back at the commemorative stamps issued in 1956. What do we choose to remember, and how do we remember it?For example, 1956 was the 100th anniversary of the the birth of Booker T. Washington, a great leader in … [Continue reading] about 50 years ago
Epithets
A few thoughts on the Epitheton Ornans, or ornamental epithet. This is more than a nickname, but a formalized word or phrase associated with a person. Classical epic poetry makes heavy use of this rhetorical device. For example, in Homer Achilles … [Continue reading] about Epithets
Ptolemy IV, Philopator
The word is “deaccession”, a fancy way of saying a museum is selling off a portion of its collection. This can happen for many reasons. For example, the museum may have received a bequest that was outside the parameters of its collection, it may have … [Continue reading] about Ptolemy IV, Philopator
Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
I’ve been reading Games and Songs of American Children by William Wells Newell, a Dover reprint of the 1903 edition. I find it fascinating how games are transmitted from generation to generation, games like “Tag”, “Button button who has the button?”, … [Continue reading] about Jingle Bells, Batman Smells