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| ==== a note (or two) on categorisation ==== | ==== a note (or two) on categorisation ==== |
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| "These ambiguities, redundancies and deficiencies remind us of those which doctor Franz Kuhn attributes to a certain Chinese encyclopaedia entitled 'Celestial Empire of benevolent Knowledge'. In its remote pages it is written that the animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies." -- [[Jorge Luis Borges]] | "These ambiguities, redundancies and deficiencies remind us of those which doctor Franz Kuhn attributes to a certain Chinese encyclopaedia entitled 'Celestial Empire of benevolent Knowledge'. In its remote pages it is written that the animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, ( c ) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies." -- [[Jorge Luis Borges]] |
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| "I'm not a fan of classification. It's very difficult to come up with a classification scheme that's useful when what you're most interested in is things that don't fit in, things that you didn't expect." -- [[Ward Cunningham]] | "I'm not a fan of classification. It's very difficult to come up with a classification scheme that's useful when what you're most interested in is things that don't fit in, things that you didn't expect." -- [[Ward Cunningham]] |
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| * Sounds and music | * Sounds and music |
| * [[OnlineLabels]] | * [[Online Labels]] |
| * [[FreeMediaTools]] | * [[Free Media Tools]] |
| * [[AlgorithmicMusic]] | * [[Algorithmic Music]] |
| * [[DigitalSignalProcessing]] | * [[Digital Signal Processing]] |
| * [[SoundSoftware]] | * [[Sound Software]] |
| * [[MediaSynthesis]] | * [[Media Synthesis]] |
| * [[Computer Science]] has a category collection all of its own | * [[Computer Science]] has a category collection all of its own |
| * Art and Artists | * Art and Artists |
| * [[Category Energy]] | * [[Category Energy]] |
| * [[Category Food]] | * [[Category Food]] |
| | * [[Category Gardens]] |
| * [[Category Index]] | * [[Category Index]] |
| * [[Category LuminousGreen]] | * [[Category Luminous Green]] |
| * [[Category Mathematics]] | * [[Category Mathematics]] |
| * [[Category Network]] | * [[Category Network]] |
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| and of course, there is all the other stuff i forgot to mention -> [[Web Index]] | and of course, there is all the other stuff i forgot to mention -> [[Web Index]] (NOTE: this page was known as CategoryIndex in a former incarnation) |
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