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A musing about the role of scholarship, diplomacy, and social work

A workflow for creating SVG images from PDFs

A quick note about African cloth and patterns.

Notes from my reivew of linux backup tools.

A short list of collaboration tools which are non-Google centric

An unexpected encounter with a snake.

Is the application of copyright on your website clear? Content can be independet from ‘the website’.

Rethinking language survey by looking at where audiences are headed, rather than where they are from.

Does the money we spend on ‘Language Documentation’ make a difference? I wonder if it wouldn’t be money better spent for language documentation and benefit to the academy, if organizations funding language documentation research for the academy would rather fund the collection of audio samples and video samples already appearning in grammars. In a way provide the support that modern grammars should have.

The need and vision for an Awesome List for Open Source Software related to minority languages.