Home page for Cameron Laird
This is a work in progress. As
Jim Jewett
expresses it, regard this as an annotated hot-list. That's
certainly its purpose to me.
March 2001: GPS asks for a site map. I'll construct
one this month. I don't want to rush it; there are
security issues.
Surely someone has defined a reading room with all these entry points;
however, I haven't been able to find it yet, and it seems easier just to
be inclusive. I'd prefer that someone else take over the burden of
maintaining this nexus. Until then, though ...
References
There are many interesting
references
works on and about the Net.
Periodicals
The best writing-available-online for my money
(or, to make the figure of speech more accurate, my time) are
straightforward "ports" of periodicals that started in print: the
Bulletin
and Notices
of the AMS, and Joe-Bob
Brigg's columns.
Other current favorite periodicals are
SunWorld Online,
InfoWorld,
WebReview,
Feed,
CCM,
Successful Farming,
Object Currents,
Science,
Netday, ... Friends
and acquaintances have recommended
Boardwatch and
?.
Dailies
Columbus Dispatch
Dow Jones News/Retrieval
(fee-based ...)
Electronic Newsstand
French Embassy Press Review
via the home gopher hole.
Kommunal Rapport
Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot [contact: borrell@infi.net]
Ottawa Citizen,
Ottawa Hill Times, and Ottawa X Press (log in as "guest")
Palo Alto Weekly
Raleigh News & Observer
USA Today (available
only to registered Cleveland Freenetters
Scholarly and trade journals
Electronic
journals
InfoWorld
UnixWorld
FYIFrance
FROGMAG
Ctheory
IndustryNet
Hebdomaire
Chroniques de Cybirie
SunWorld Online
Books
IBIC home
page.
UoM's electronic text
archive.
Online Book Initiative
Bible Gateway
Human
Languages Page.
De
Proverbio
Travels
with Samantha.
This collection of Marx'
and Engels' writing ought to show up in the obvious on-line indexes,
but I haven't been able to find it through OBI, Yahoo, ...
(more on Marx is available
elsewhere, incidentally).
Words, Wit, and Wisdom
A page
on the songs and poetry of Robert Burns.
Bookstores
Online Bookstore.
Other
Historical perspectives
I strongly recommend John Lienhard's
The Engines of our Ingenuity and the equally
scholarly
Valley
of the Shadow. With more modest means, Bridget E. Smith's
Historical Gazette
affords similar satisfactions.
Net-ly wise
David
Sewell and Daniel Dern are
top-notch.
Angela's
World is hipper than mine, but I enjoy checking in.
Quotes from
the Net
I'm still reading what Michele
Tepper has put together.
Jorn Barger recently came up with yet another
interesting
perspective on Netnews, which gives whole new flavors of fun to
reading it.
Conspiracies
It certainly doesn't take me believing in 'em (but, incidentally,
Viva Dick Gregory! and Remember Nugnet Hand!) for them to be true.
Decide, for example, whether business is as usual for
the CIA.
Images
I'm slowly joining the generation that thinks of web-surfing as
something more than a textual experience. It pleases me,
for example, to see Bennett Battaile's
recognition.
One question that comes up over and over is
how to cite on-line texts.
I subscribe to NeoSoft, of Houston, Texas,
for my on-line access. Reach me as claird@phaseit.net.
I founded
sci.anthropology,
the on-line
index
to newsgroup archives, and the
Houston
WWW Business Guide. I'm supposed to edit
RESECON's
reviews,
but I've shirked that so far, despite R. M. Porter's great leadership.
Other recurring interests include
domestication;
innovation (I run a low-volume mailing list on the topic);
comp.software.interoperable, comp.lang.advocacy, comp.software-eng.reviews, ...
[explain this someday];
mathematics
(this is natural, as I am constitutionally a mathematician);
net culture; ...
Employment, most recently with
Gensym
Corporation, as a
professional
programmer has occupied most of my last two decades. I've also
demonstrated competence in
farm work
and radio broadcasting,
with shorter stints as a tree trimmer, construction worker,
college tutor,
parent,
market gardener, ... After years and years of struggle, my partner
has made me to understand that my preferences sometimes are as
interesting as my competences. This challenges my comfort; perhaps
I'll elaborate on the theme in a few more months.
other ...
My
brother,
among others, "holds down the fort" in bucolic northwest Indiana
(he currently lives
a
couple of miles from the Purdue University campus), where I
lived
almost all my life before the '90s. The exceptions were (too)
brief periods in
Mexico
and
northern
Norway. More recently, I've worked on the
Cote
(provencal) d'Azur and the Texas Gulf Coast.
Net.work on my mind just now: I'm trying to decide whether a
"manifesto"
I posted on professionalism in anthropology merits expansion to publication
on paper. Also, I'm sketching an
FAQ
for sci.anthropology, writing an
analytic
taxonomy
of net.services, and trying to understand what development environments
are propitious for
programming
multi-lingually.
I'm trying to decide if I want to subscribe to
ISDN
at home. Until SWBT adjusts its tariffs, the answer'll be "no".
Missouri
Biological Garden
Oxford Forestry Institute.
[PUT IN POINTER TO BIO-ANTH.]
I have collected information about many
computer
languages. I have a long-term infatuation with
asynchronous logic,
but no particular expertise in it. I am, however, an
accomplished
software engineer.
Luzeaux-iana
include theoretical papers on rule systems, ergodicity, ...
DEC's research center has good people working on a variety of
projects; of particular
interest to me are
Luca
Cardelli's
analyses.
Alf-Christian Achilles has collected many
bibliographies
on topics in computer science.
I'm currently working through the exercises in Mac Lane's
Categories ....
Functional analysis
Organizations
Prediction and control theories
Proof techniques
Why wavelets? They
- are useful to model physical reality, in its
simultaneously-time-and-bandwidth-limited aspects;
- have desirable computational properties (is this
profoundly or superficially true? CL needs to
think more); and, most dramatically,
- they represent a desirable flavor of harmonic analysis
in that they map certain normed spaces more regularly
than do Fourier transforms.
Perhaps Gilbert Strang will someday convince us all that wavelets
are fundamentally algebraic [give refs]. ... Explain more.
Online resources
The AMS has a
WWW page,
although my encounters with it suggest it's still a bit fragile. I
find that the best place to begin searching resources is at NIST's
GAMS project. Sometimes I've
had trouble bouncing from there to
NETLIB, though ...
"Boundary
math" is a project of Jeff James.
Earliest
Known Uses of Symbols
Jack Campin's
Food
Intolerance Resources
The
McCarrison Society Scottish Group
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