字典介紹辭

此書最大的美德，是—切都以讀者的需要為主，不但設想周到，而且設備齊全。尤其對於外國的讀者，此書提供了種種方便，幾乎處處都有「詢問處」，可供遠客「入境問俗」，處處都有明確易認的路牌、指標，可以「按圖索驥」。遇有特殊情況，更有專業嚮導待命，立刻前來解圍。每一個字或詞都像一個人，此書會向讀者詳細介紹他的名字怎麼念(發音)，他的身份為何(名詞或動詞)，他的來意何在(各種定義)，他有什麼習慣，常與何人來往(例句與詞語搭配)，他與貌似的家人如何分辨(同義詞分析)，他與表親的鄉音有何差別(英語與美語發音並列)。

余光中

把外國讀者比喻為遠客, 妙.

Beckett on Stage: Silence & Whisper

愛麗絲劇場實驗室

貝克特的無聲與呢喃

小心用字，避免錯謬：
那有意將它毀滅的東西，往往就是我們最先要加以保存的東西；
那破碎的雖然破碎了，郤是無法毀滅的。
格言87
－卡夫卡－

貝克特無聲與呢喃

小心用字，避免出錯：
最著意毀滅，往往本最想保全；
破碎的，縱破碎，卻無法毀滅。
格言八十七
－卡夫卡－

手動解毒

電腦中毒怎麼辦？手動解毒移除教學
cleaning computer virus

penn and teller

from pyrinde:

1, Penn and Teller's magic 魔術
如詩 / (a old version)
Teller talks: the psychological principles to create magic
醇酒美人
憲法與表達自由 / (west wing 版)

More magic:
The colour changing card trick: quirkology
ASSC 11 Magic of Consciousness Symposium




2, UCTV, Grey matters: understanding language

Birth of a baby

哪一個更好?

version 1

Birth of a baby

After about 40 weeks, the foetus is ready to be born. Normally, the head of the foetus points towards the opening of the uterus. The birth of the baby begins as the muscles of the uterus contract*. Then the bag containing the watery liquid breaks. The opening of the uterus becomes larger. The muscles of the uterus contract more and more frequently and strongly to push the baby out. Normally, it is born with its head coming out first. Fig. 3.22 shows the process of birth of a baby.

Fig. 3.22

The doctor makes sure that the baby breathes on its own, and then ties and cuts the umbilical cord.

version 2

Birth of a baby

The baby is ready to be born, when its organs are fully developed (after about 40 weeks). The mother's uterus muscles contract in rhythms, more and more strongly and frequently, and finally push the baby out (normally, head-first).

a series of four figures, showing the process of labour (highlight the following points):
1. baby's head down
2. muscles are contracting
3. watery liquid comes out
4. baby coming out
5. ties and cuts the umbilical cord
6. placenta out

The doctor then makes sure that the baby can breathe on its own, and ties and cuts the umbilical cord. The placenta is pushed out by further contractions of the mother's uterus muscles.

北極熊

雅虎新聞

氣候變遷食物變少 迫使北極熊自相殘殺
(法新社)3月19日 星期四 15:05

全球暖化已經在北極熊身上留下記號，北極熊體型變得比較小，活動力也下降，且同類相食的情況有越來越嚴重的趨勢。

培根論讀書

論讀書（培根著，王佐良譯）
Of Studies by Francis Bacon

A.

A1/ 讀書足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以長才。其怡情也，最見於獨處幽居之時；其傅彩也，最見於高談闊論之中；其長才也，最見於處世判事之際。
STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business.

A2/ 練達之士雖能分別處理細事，或一一判別枝節，然縱觀統籌、全局策劃，則舍好學深思者莫屬。
For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best, from those that are learned.

A3/ 讀書費時過多易惰，文采藻飾太盛則矯，全憑條文斷事乃學究故態。
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar.

A4/ 讀書補天然之不足，經驗又補讀書之不足，蓋天生才幹猶如自然花草，讀書然後知如何修剪移接；而書中所示，如不以經驗範之，則又大而無當。
They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

A5/ 有一技之長者鄙讀書，無知者羨讀書，唯明智之士用讀書，然書並不以用處告人，用書之智不在書中，而在書外，全憑觀察得之。
Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

A6/ 讀書時不可存心詰難作者，不可盡信書上所言，亦不可只為尋章摘句，而應推敲細思。
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

A7/ 書有可淺嘗者，有可吞食者，少數則須咀嚼消化。換言之，有只須讀其部分者，有只須大體涉獵者，少數則須全讀，讀時須全神貫注，孜孜不倦。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

A8/ 書亦可請人代讀，取其所作摘要，但只限題材較次或價值不高者，否則書經提煉猶如水經蒸餾、淡而無味矣。
Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them bothers; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.


B.

B1/ 讀書使人充實，討論使人機智，筆記使人準確。因此不常作筆記者須記憶特強，不常討論者須天生聰穎，不常讀書者須欺世有術，始能無知而顯有知。
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not.

B2/ 讀史使人明智，讀詩使人靈秀，數學使人周密，科學使人深刻，倫理學使人莊重，邏輯修辭之學使人善辯：凡有所學，皆成性格。
Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores.

B3/ 人之才智但有滯礙，無不可讀適當之書使之順暢，一如身體百病，皆可借相宜之運動除之。滾球利睾腎，射箭利胸肺，慢步利腸胃，騎術利頭腦，諸如此類。
Nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like.

B4/ 如智力不集中，可令讀數學，蓋演題須全神貫注，稍有分散即須重演；如不能辨異，可令讀經院哲學，蓋是輩皆吹毛求疵之人；
So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectors.

B5/ 如不善求同，不善以一物闡證另一物，可令讀律師之案卷。如此頭腦中凡有缺陷，皆有特藥可醫。
If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind, may have a special receipt.

錯晒囉, etc.

1. My Life as Open Source, 錯晒囉！！！

憑三個藉藉無名的立法會議員可以「葬送香港國際形像」？香港的國際形像，早在拒絕王丹，高志活，馬英九這三位國際知名人士入境，再加上近日虧空國庫的津巴布韋總統夫人入境消費，晨早已經葬送掉，當時卻不見日月神報批評港府此舉與歐美國家背道而馳，有損國際形像云云？現在來兩隻假香蕉就擔心起來，真係比佢吹漲！

2. 袁建滔‧泥內漢 , 推："希特拉" 都取消唔到有線合約

Eminleo君很利害，不單老作對白，還能配合演員、剪接、節奏，強！

3. UC berkeley, Evolution 101