Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Leonardo da Vinci's to-do list

Leonardo da Vinci's to-do list: "Another giant, Michel Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, wrote that no single idea could hold him. "I cannot keep my subject still," he wrote. "It goes along, befuddled and staggering, with a natural drunkenness."

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scraped - Google Search

scraped - Google Search: "Copy (data) from a website or Web page using a computer program"
This meaning is not in my oxford american English (english is checked by spell checker, you know!) dictionary.
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Longio+Saluzzi.jpg (664×1030)

Longio+Saluzzi.jpg (664×1030):
Watch hands can be like these.
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House on the Bluffs By Taylor Smyth Architects | Design Milk

House on the Bluffs By Taylor Smyth Architects | Design Milk: "cantilevers"
I found Google dictionary Chrome extension does recognize context and shows "cantilever" as a verb, although the first (in corpus sense) entry in the dictionary is noun sense.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools, Logarithms

History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools, Logarithms: "proportional"

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Trivia on History of Roget's Thesaurus | Trivia Library

Trivia on History of Roget's Thesaurus | Trivia Library: "He wrote treatises on electricity, galvanism, and electromagnetism; he tried to make a calculating machine; he devised a successful slide rule for performing mathematical operations of involution (raising a number to any power) and evolution (extracting any root of a number);"

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