Category: words
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The five laws of information management
Originally posted on notnull.blog: In 1931 the librarian S.R. Ranganathan published ‘The Five Laws of Library Science’, a set of core tenets which contributed to the foundation of modern librarianship. These five laws were remarkably prescient and are as relevant to libraries today as they were last century. This article introduces an adaptation of…
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Lewis Lane
I thought it would be interesting to compare different roads around the world which share the same name by viewing them through the all-seeing lens of Google Street View. Actually, I originally wanted to compare shots of the skies above similarly named places, but if you spend any time looking only at the sky on Street View, you’ll quickly discover that it is predominantly…
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2012: My Year in Review
January: Started cutting my own hair. February: Photographed a particularly bad example of illegal and dangerous parking – unsuccessfully petitioned the local council to issue a parking ticket. March: Promotion at work. April: Short stint as a war photographer. May: Came 1330th in a 10K. June: Rowed down the river Dee in an inflatable dinghy. July: Issued a Freedom…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: In His Own Words
The following are extracts from ‘Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story’, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s autobiography, presented verbatim without comment. “Up till then, I’d thought that only girls cry, but I ended up crying quietly in the dark for hours.” “Our apartment was always way cleaner than anyone else’s I went to, men or women. Especially…
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