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I have mixed feelings about DeFrancis’ work, but this should be a useful resource.

Digital cameras Tip: Rename your digital photos automatically in Windows XP - Tips, Tricks, and How-tos at CNET.
Unless you really have a lot of time on your hands, I doubt you want to go through the massive folder that contains your European vacation photos and rename them Europe_1.jpg, Europe_2.jpg, and so on down the line. [...]

Good Math, Bad Math : Roman Numerals and Arithmetic provides a discussion of doing arithmetic with Roman Numerals.
Back in 1995, David Paredes and I wrote a chapter that discussed this in part,
Miller, K.F., & Paredes, D. R. (1996). On the shoulders of giants: Cultural tools and mathematical development. In R. Sternberg & [...]

from TheRegister

Apparently this slide was much of the basis for U.S. post-Saddam planning for Iraq. Sigh. Via Arms & Influence from the book Fiasco by Thomas Ricks.

Twenty-five years ago, today, IBM announced its first personal computer. I remember that day because I happened to be in Ann Arbor, working with some people here to write a large grant proposal to do some research in China. The proposal wasn’t funded, but I ended up doing the work that I’d planned to do [...]