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a note (or two) on categorisation
“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
“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
on “Classification and Categorization” http://www.metabang.com/unclog/publisha/classifi.html
categorical acceptance
partially sucessful attempts at classification of the sprawling subject matters at hand. for example..
- Sounds and music
- Computer Science has a category collection all of its own
- Art and Artists
- paradoxes starting with “F”
- Fisch (Labyrinth Fisch and the InterFisch)
- SciFi psionic frictions
- Things to do
- make more categories
check if it is possible to automatically create a list of topics that are “categories” using dokuwiki…
categories from the former libarynth…
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)