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Dienstag, 22. November 2005

Dirk Baecker: "Employees become authors, yet this demands that they learn to read and to argue as well. Rhetorics and hermeneutics become basic skills, which means that we will have to reverse almost two thousand years of history in the West that tried to undo their invention due to alleged sophistry."

2005-11-22-db1

Stephen Taylor in Vector: Discover, Learn, Profit

Starting with the current issue (21.4), Vector, the magazine of the British APL Association, will be published simultaneously online and on paper. That's a fantastic development.

2005-11-22-v1

"If [...] chatspeak abbreviations like 'LOL' had become popular long before there were computers and character sets, they might have, over time, become new symbols, like 'et' became '&' and 'at' became '@'. What might they look like?" [ Ø K10K • ]

2005-11-22-wtf

Fresh from Knallgrau: tagthe.net.

Monsieur live.hackr: "[...] immerhin aus Österreich".

Whatever that may mean.

2005-11-22-ttn