Tim Bray <> wrote:
>[Attribution stream is muddled up -- someone said:]
>>"I'm attempting to approach knowledge science by first
>>"red-shifting" the operating system. That shift in
>>systemic approach is first realized by conjectively
>>shifting all data when received immediately into a
>>convolution of the data against a sense-of-conjecture, and
>>in so doing, literally create a scale of meaning along the
>>one dimension of sense as a memory retrieval mechanism via
>>ordinal position along this scale of sense.
>Sounds like a bunch of BS dressed up in $10 words ("conjectively"!?!?).
>This is the kind of stuff that has given KR a bad name.
To me it sounded like it was generated using the
Postmodernism Generator:
http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/
(Just keep hitting 'refresh' in your browser and read the
resulting documents. They're hilarious. I could probably
take one of these documents and submit it to certain
humanities journals and get it accepted.)
Sorry for the digression from this thread, but I could not
resist.
Jon Noring
Windspun
http://www.windspun.com/
