oh, my....

[miriam_e]

fas·cism (fashiz´em) n. 1. A philosophy or system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerant nationalism.

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[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I'd love to get a good electronic dictionary. So far the only one I have found that is fairly big is the Gnu free dictionary, but some fool decided it was worth putting into XML. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time, but without specialised software XML just doesn't seem to be good for anything. (I'll write a rant about the empty promise of XML another time.)

I started recoding it in standard html (yes, I have no life) so it could be loaded into an ordinary web browser or into the Palm, or wherever, but stopped when I found that so many modern (like since 1913!!) words aren't in it. [sigh]

The Project Gutenberg thesaurus is my favorite thesaurus. I keep a link to it on the desktop of all my machines and a copy on my Palm. I have several paper thesauruses (thesauri?), but never use them anymore. Electronic is sooo easy to use.