From Mark Morford's column today.
A music video that renders me simply speechless.
Humor: April 2005 Archives
This made me laugh out loud. A little geeky information-management humor...
Journal of Knowledge Research
Volume 42, 2005, Pages 12-37
Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
INFORMATION DOES NOT EXIST
Jack Napier1, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Seto Kaiba2 and Yuffie Kisaragi2
1James T. Smith Library, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States
2Kyuzo Institute, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Available online 1 April 2005.
Abstract
We proffer an epistemological, ontological, and ecumenical analysis of the informatics zeitgeist surrounding librarians and so-called information scientists. A fuzzy systems tautomerism and transformative hermeneutic lexiae with stemming metadata shows that behind an axiometric normalization of mutually reinforcing moieties, institutionalized metaphors, and naïve liturgical dogmas lies nothing more than gormandized aphorisms and pseudoscientific quanta. This endemic helix permeates the koans of nacirema determinates and quidditative paradigms alike. The operationalized gestalt is collapsed, as with its photonic counterpart, via an interaction among the cromulent a priori of epiphenomenal knowledge management and the parsimonious lorem ipsum of atomistic artificial intelligence and its ilk. Neither the nascent yet positivist hyperliteracy movement nor the transactive pedagogical convergence of jingoistic multiliteracies possess the constituent wherewithal for explicating the existence of information per se or affirming the verstehende of contemporary librarianship; you can't eat your cake and have it too. Ramifications for string theory and consciousness studies are also addressed.
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