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I'll be honest: "the alter of pedantic technical accuracy" made me snigger a little.

• WalterGR 11y ago
  Have you read the essay "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia" by Cory Doctorow? You may enjoy it: http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm My favorite expression from it: "the lab-coated guardians of epistemology". More fully: "In meta-utopia, the lab-coated guardians of epistemology sit down and rationally map out a hierarchy of ideas..."
  • bshimmin 11y ago
    I was actually poking fun at the misspelling of "altar" - seemed quite amusing given the context!
    • WalterGR 11y ago
      Ah, yes. :)
  • jerven 11y ago
    Yet in practice schema.org shows that people do put in their webpages and it has a benefit. Cory argues that you can't trust meta data therefore its useless. Newsflash nothing can be trusted, but its at least nice if you can parse it before deciding if its spam or ham!