Category: Random
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Seeing Stars
Rating things is all the rage. I suspect that rating scales can influence ratings given and that there are other factors that influence the ratings a person is comfortable giving publicly. Except for the “thumbs up” idea (only occasionally paired with a “thumbs down” to go along with it), there’s been somewhat universal usage of…
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By Any Other Descriptor
I really have not been paying attention. Apparently there are various editions of Shakespeare’s works, with vastly different text among them, with no definitive versions. In fact, the earliest versions seem to be considered the least reliable. This is the opposite of how original publications of musical works are generally treated, where urtext (original text)…