Washingtonpost.com does a lot of quoting of the senate documents. They could use a better way of quoting these collections in context.
Almost 13 years after the CIA established secret prisons to hold and interrogate detainees, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the CIA’s programs listing 20 key findings. Click a statement below for a summary of the findings:
W3: The Group That Rules the Web
When the Web was brand new, many computer-savvy people despised it—compared to other hypertext-publishing systems, it was a primitive technology. For example, you could link from your Web page to any other page, but you couldn’t know when someone linked to your Web page. Nor did the Web allow you to edit pages in your browser. To élite hypertext thinkers and programmers, these were serious flaws.
.. “Technology standardization is commercial diplomacy,” wrote Stephen R. Walli, the senior director of platform engineering at Corbis Images and a veteran of many such efforts, in a paper on the subject, “and the purpose of individual players (as with all diplomats) is to expand one’s area of economic influence while defending sovereign territory.” Or, as Charles F. Goldfarb—who co-created a forerunner to HTML called Standard Generalized Markup Language, in 1974—once delicately put it, on an e-mail list: “Multi-year projects in a highly political arena with changing personnel contributes to a loss of focus.” Which is to say: standards, like laws, emerge from fundamental conflict.
.. The automatic validator is an encoded belief system. Not every Web site offers valid HTML, just as not every Catholic eschews pre-marital sex.
.. Using EmotionML, this is how you would indicate a pleasure value of 0.5:
<emotion dimension-set=”http://www.w3.org/TR/emotion-voc/xml#pad-dimensions”><dimension name=”pleasure” value=”0.5″/></emotion>
Roget Invented the Thesaurus at Age 73
Being nuts, it turns out, was in his blood: His grandmother was mentally unstable, his mother was nearly psychotic and his sister and daughter had suffered severe mental breakdowns. As if that wasn’t enough, his father and wife died young, and one time his uncle slit his throat in front of him. Peter was actually the sane one in the family, or as it was known to people who weren’t in his family, “still crazier than a shit house rat.”
.. The only thing that seemed to calm him was making lists, a somewhat creepy hobby he’d had since childhood. When he retired from medicine at 61, he realized he might as well spend all day making one huge, all-encompassing list of all the things ever — so that’s exactly what he did.
The Success:
Twelve years later, at age 73, Peter Roget published his giant list of words as a book, Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases … otherwise known as “the thesaurus.”
Simple explanation of counterpoint?
In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are interdependent harmonically (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.
.. Counterpoint, in simple terms, is a technique for creating “good” harmony with independent voices (independent on contour & rhythm). Another way of looking at it is: Counterpoint is a technique for playing various independent voices without messing up the harmony.
.. All it means is that is that both voices add up to some kind of harmony (think of chords although they don’t have to be), while the the musical lines themselves don’t sound or feel alike. These voices can also typically each be perceived as a different melody.
There is a much simpler way to say what counterpoint is which is “The study of how to make two voices independent within the context of harmony.”
.. If you want good examples of how counterpoint can be used listen to some fugues and inventions.
Youtube example: Fugue