Linnaean bookmarks

[robinturner]

Sorting my Mozilla bookmarks is a last-ditch displacement activity (I get a mental image here of someone jumping out of a ditch, dripping water and shouting "Eureka!"). Beyond this lies only work.

One thing I noticed during this time-wasting activity was that the hierarchical organisation of bookmark files (reminiscent of Linnaean biology) really doesn't fit the way I think. For example, "Occult" goes under Philosophy::Religious, since it started with a couple of links on Thelema, and Thelema is both a philosophy and a religion; however, most occultism does not qualify as either (I could have a subdirectory called Ideas::Nutty, but that would cover far too much). Then there are all my Iraq war links. Do they go under Politics::Middle East or Politics::Americas::USA? I need some kind of intellecutally fashionable cogsci prototype / family resemblance / neural net way to store bookmarks.

Anyway, for the enjoyment of other procrastinators, I have posted my bookmarks page here.

Comments

[vret.livejournal.com]

I don't bother with bookmarks much these days. I find it quicker to use google than hunt through my bookmark lists.

I could write you a really clever database with features like reading the page as you add the bookmark and storing a full text index (a bit like a mini-google), categorising bookmarks by multiple Dewey numbers etc, but it would be in .net and so no use to you (yet).

[solri.livejournal.com]

No, I don't suppose it would. But it's given me some interesting ideas for things I could do with Perl if I ever want to do some serious bunking off work.

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

This link, Myers-Briggs Personality Typing - INTP, under "tests" is dead b/c the company discontinued free webhosting services.

Cool links list; I've bookmarked it. :-P