Betsy Devine: Funny ha-ha and/or funny peculiarMaking trouble today for a better tomorrow...Some of Wikipedia baddest bits and pieces- May 27, 2008 Caution: Wikipedia trolls at play Originally uploaded by betsythedevine Is Hillary Clinton a giant shape-shifting reptile Do ghosts use cellphones Does Smithville, Iowa have a &8220;quaint little library&8221; And how should Wikipedia reflect (or not) each of these sincere, not trolling, beliefs. (Trolls create a whole new set of wiki-problems.) A veteran of some of the most hood-filled ...http://betsydevine.com/blog/2008/05/27/some-of-wikipedia-baddest-bits-and-pieces/ Reflection, translation, science and belief- May 22, 2008 Green on green Originally uploaded by betsythedevine Even a skilled translation is like the reflection in water of what the original thinker was trying to say. But such reflections may also have charms of their own. With this excuse, and with thanks to a friend in Babice for sending me a charmingly machine-translated from the Polish interview with ...http://betsydevine.com/blog/2008/05/22/reflection-translation-science-and-belief/ |