Linnaean bookmarks
Thursday, June 24th, 2004 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinturnerSorting 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.
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.
