links for 2007-05-21

• Robot Wisdom auxiliary: Autobiographical calendar of reading
  “if i compiled a personal ‘canon’
  the primary criterion would be
  how often, day to day
  i’m reminded of an artist’s work”
  (tags: robotwisdom reading list books)
• Amazon.com: The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Books Collection): Books: Freeman Dyson
  “his writings on Einstein, Teller, Newton, Oppenheimer, Norbert Wiener and Feynman will amuse while presenting deep insights into the nature of science and humanity. Virtually every chapter deserves to be savored. (Dec.)
  Copyright © Reed Business Inf
  (tags: book good eclectic interesting freemandyson esther dyson freeman war dennett swhpl sobering worthwhile global climate england germany russia ww2 review nyrb reductionism humanism spirit lue philosophy)
• Studies in Bibliography, Volume 54 (2001) – Thoughts on the Authenticity of Electronic Texts by G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation
  “The implication that one can do without specialists when the material seems commonplace is anti-intellectual and anti-scholarly. All of us, not simply as scholars but as human beings, make decisions all the time about when to accept specialists’ jud
  (tags: expert authority good interesting text etext authenticity bibliography bibliographic)
• David Chudnov Jon Udell
  “That problem is to follow the history of thought in a problem space when you read somebody’s article and they relate it to work that’s come before. You want to be able to follow the references and see which giant’s shoulders they’ve been standing on and
  (tags: judell openurl quote good transcript why library swhpl)
• Musings of a Semantic / Rich Web Architect: What’s Next? ✏Copia
  (tags: json rdf sparql xforms xml semweb logic python oche)
• Comparing notes on speaker preparation « Jon Udell
  “I’ve finally trained myself to use dictation effectively. I’ll go out for a long walk, like two or three hours, and dictate a rough draft of the talk. I’m not able to do that continuously, I have to stop and think and start again, but I turn the re
  (tags: judell writing presentation how)
• XTech 2006: SQL, XQuery, and SPARQL:
  “SPARQL syntax makes virtually all join operations implicit, while SQL syntax usually makes them explicit. A consequence of this design decision is that the SQL expressions to answer typical questions that will be asked against RDF collections tend to be
  (tags: via sparql popular sql xquery rdf comparison query)
• No. 669: Baidarka
  “Baidarka is a Russian word. The Russians came to the Aleutian Islands in 1732. To the sea north of the Aleutians, they gave the name of their captain — the moody, stubborn, meticulous Dane, Vitus Bering. But, to the delicate Aleut kayak, they gave their
  (tags: eooi george dyson georgedyson kayak marine alaska)
• No. 668: Ivan Veniaminov
  “Then Veniaminov heard that missionaries were needed among the Aleut natives on the south Alaska coast. So this intellectual, whose hands had learned right along with his head, set off for Unalaska. That’s one of the Aleutian Islands.”
  (tags: eooi alaska russion history orthodox marine)