Schlagwort: Ordnung

Hyperlaw.

Creating PDFs without clickable links and references should be illegal.

Lückenfüllen.

I am annoyed by gaps, misalignments, holes and other mess more often than it is of any use to care about.

Multibibliomensional.

The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.

Neal Stephenson: The Confusion

Märchentlich.

The Germans have a fondness for faery-tales, or Märchen as they call them, that is strangely at odds with their orderly dispositions.

Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver

Londsterdam.

You’ve spent time in Amsterdam, which may give you some idea of what London is like, except that London is not nearly as well organized.

Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver