Friday, November 25, 2011
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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This meaning is not in my oxford american English (english is checked by spell checker, you know!) dictionary.
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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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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
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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