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The opposite of science

For some time, I’ve been trying to create a Library of Congress-style taxonomy for all of my books, with plans to make it practical enough to use in any categorization. One of the uses would be (and has begun to be) for this blog, in categorizing all post subjects. The LOC system is, as efficient as it seems on the surface, horribly flawed. Let’s take a look at why:

• Class A – General Works
• Class B – Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
• Class C – Auxiliary Sciences of History (General)
• Class D – World History (except American History)
• Class E and F – American History
• Class F – Local History of the United States and British, Dutch, French, and Latin America
• Class G – Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
• Class H – Social Sciences
• Class J – Political Science
• Class K – Law
• Class L – Education
• Class M – Music
• Class N – Fine arts
• Class P – Language and Literature
• Class Q – Science
• Class R – Medicine
• Class S – Agriculture
• Class T – Technology
• Class U – Military Science
• Class V – Naval Science
• Class Z – Bibliography, Library Science

The problem? Several of those categories should be broader or combined. History has four big categories and all of literature is combined with language? So I thought, Why not combine them logically? Putting the different sciences together into one big category and then subdividing it thusly:

Science

• Applied Science
  • Agriculture
  • Electronics
  • Genetics
  • Mechanics
  • Medicine
• Formal Science
  • Logic
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics
• Natural Science
  • Astronomy
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Earth Sciences
  • Physics
• Social Science
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Criminology
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • History
  • Linguistics
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

…and so on. But where to put things like film, music, sports, games? In an opposite category of course. But what do I call it? Art? (No, that’s about arranging elements to invoke emotion, and that would discount sports, generally) Emotionality? Intuitivity? Aesthetics? FUN? This was a stumper and had been bothering me for a couple of years at least. But I think I finally have some sort of idea — in fact, I’m pretty sure that by simply repurposing an existing word and following word-coinage convention, we can split everything up into two major categories: science and… not-science. Continue reading…

Site progress.

Working on the site as best as I can, given that I’m also trying to get work done. The tweaking of the design is pretty much done (a few minor points excepting) and the content is building. The Us page is up, even though the roster isn’t completed. Suggestions? Corrections? Let us know. Use the nifty new Contact page.

UPDATE: The Us page is complete. [090310.1550]

(posted from my iPod touch)

Administrative gobbledygook.

Tonight, I put in a little effort to get the blog a-movin’ along. Trying out various WordPress themes, modding ‘em a little, gathering some inspiration from various sources. So I guess we’ll see what we’ll see, right.

My long-term plan is to create my own CMS from scratch (I had a name for it years ago; can’t seem to recall.. Oh yeah: Hot Cement) and create a beautiful and classy design for it. But before that happens, I need to make sure this one is running smoothly. After that, I’ll work on getting my old Courteous Miner entries potted over. Then my Radiopedia entries. Then Ready Demolition. Then Livejournal, Blogspot, Vox, etc. Then I have find a way to sync entries across all remaining blogging platforms I choose to stick with.

Until then, I’ll just work on getting back into the swing of blogging. Tweets to the right in the meantime, in-between time.

(posted from my iPod touch)

The ipod touch.

Just testing this out at the library. Does it work? You tell me in the comments. Thanks.

(posted from my iPod touch)