Stephen Leacock explained, a century ago, about book indexes. His essay begins: “Readers of books, I mean worthwhile readers, like those who read this volume, will understand how many difficulties centre round the making of an Index. Whether to have an Index at all? Whether to make it a great big one or just a […]
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Appreciation: “No index…, no table of contents…, no order”
“There is no index at the back, no table of contents at the front, and the subjects covered are not arranged in alphabetical, or any other, order. A hotchpotch is a hotchpotch, but not being able to locate or then re-find anything slowly drove me insane with fury. ” That’s one of the delightful passages […]
The Index of The Indexer
Dip, if you dare, into the Cumulative Index from 1996 (vol 20) onwards of The Indexer. The Indexer is, by its own admission, “the international journal of indexing”. (Disclaimer/proclaimer: I am an entry in that cumulative index, because of “The“, which led to this.)
The Golfball Index (UPDATED: May/June 2012)
The May 2012 figures for the Golfball Index (the count of nep patents for golfballs) were again somewhat lacklustre. As in April 2012 there were just 7 new US golfball patents. But the index made good headway back into positive territory during June 2012 – when the US patent office issued no less than 10 new […]
