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What we know, how we know it, and how we share what we know in the academic sense where the knowledge is more the goal than the use of it.

It’s frightening – I’net apps as targets

Kelly7552 has some advice to word press dreamhosters at the Dreamhost customer discussion forum that is well worth perusing, I think. He got into analyzing the error and access logs to his 6 wordpress installs and what he reports is frightening. many of the trolls are not specific to wordpress ,like trolls trying to access [...]

What about just sitting on the beach?

Mark Roberts describes a conundrum some face when laid off work or retiring in Creation, Contentment, and Work. Human beings are not simply to sit on a beach and enjoy the beauty of creation. Nor are they simply to sit in a cathedral and enjoy the beauty of God. Rather, they are to be actively [...]

Words mean things?

Cognitive scientists develop new take on old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings at PhysOrg has some interesting implications for legal and technical prose as well as for the nature of some arguments in the online forums and discussions. To understand why ambiguity makes a language more efficient rather than [...]