RE: [xml-dev] Webelo 2.0: The Mythed and Mythstery (WAS RE: [xml-dev] YouTube videos re: documents and XML)

> Text only reads in one [direction]

Mostly... some Mesopotamian poets/scribes amused themselves or others
by writing compositions in which the first syllable of each line
(read top to bottom, or bottom to top) spelled out a palindrome,
while and all the line-final syllables (read one or two ways) gave
the answer implicit in the riddle/question posed in the initial-syllable
palindrome.

Of course, this secret was usually hidden.

Imagine the heady experience of the modern assyriologist
who discovered this maybe in the 1960s, after a couple decades
of casual reading by others -- who, not looking for secrets,
found none.

- Robin

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On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Len Bullard wrote:

> So it would seem but the handwriting was bad enough that they might have
> been scribbling something else.
>
> On the other hand, linear can go in two directions, yes?  Text only reads in
> one unless someone is keeping secrets from me again. :-)
>
> len
>
>
> From: Rick Marshall [mailto:]
>
> is unilinear a tautology?
>
> Len Bullard wrote:
> >> From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:]
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Have you seen this one on XML and Web 2.0 yet?  Be sure to have the
> >> sound on for the music.
> >>
> >
> >
> >>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
> >>
> >
> > Text is unilinear.
> >
> > o  Information is situated.
> >
> > Form is separated from content
> >
> > o  Formless content is more complex than situated content.
> >
> > HTML is complicated code.
> >
> > o  CSS + XML is more complicated code.  CSS + XML + XQuery + SQL is more
> > complicated than that.
> >
> > XML was invented to separate form from content.
> >
> > o  XML was invented to prove SGML + HyTime + DSSSL was bad.
> >
> > XML facilitates automated data exchange
> >
> > o  XML feeds complicated syntax to complicated code written in dumbed down
> > C.
> >
> > XML allows people to upload text without writing complicated code
> >
> > o  if they use less powerful unilinear text entry applications written in
> > complicated code.
> >
> > o  Video too:  if they learn to manage a firewall.
> >
> > o  Writing to a blog only requires you to type in unilinear text.
> >
> > o  Each time we forge a link, we state an opinion.
> >
> > o  Each time a link asserts a false relationship, we publish superstition.
> >
> > o  Web 2.0 is linking opinions into mass superstitions that are retarding
> > the planet.
> >
> > o  ... and foisting bad loops off as good music.
> >
> > o  Bad loops are a good reason to turn off the sound.
> >
> > The web is more of less and less of better.
> >
> > The web is linking more of less.
> >
> > We need to think more about rethinking less.
> >
> > See Gresham's Law.  See YouTube/Viacom.
> >
> > len
> >
> >
> >
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