Interrobang's Journal: My Scarily Long List of Indexing Keywords

Those of you who've been around for a while know that every so often (when the madness strikes), I slap up another index entry for this journal (alas, despite my recent posting pace that resembles a tortoise climbing a greased glass ramp, probably not as fast as I write the damned things, although I tend to index 'em 25 at a time). I'm currently working on Index Entry #3 (50-75), but it's going to take me a while, since some of the posts in the queue involve lots of keywords, lots of links, and lots of content.

In the meantime, amuse-toi bien with my Truly Massive List O' Keywords.

1984 (book)
2600 Magazine
abstinence education
ACM [Association for Computing Machinery]
activism
activism (boycotts)
AI [Artificial Intelligence]
American Exceptionalism
Amnesty International
Andrew Ortony
Andrew W. Osler
Al Qaeda
animals (fish)
art
aviation
Baltimore
Bell Canada
Benito Mussolini
bioethics and medical issues
birth control
Bruce Sterling
C-POP Gallery
calligraphy
Calvinism
cartels
civics
climate change
clothing and costume
clothing and costume (19th. C.)
clothing and costume (fashion)
clothing and costume (medieval)
community issues and communitarianism
computer-mediated communications
communication theory
conservatism
conspiracy theories
consumer affairs
copyright
corporations and corporate issues
Counterpunch Magazine
Coventry Patmore
credit cards
cryptography and cryptanalysis
cultural issues
Darth_brooks
David (Aleksandr)
Dayglo Abortions
Dead Kennedys
DeBeers
Detroit
DGlenn
diamonds
disability issues
DTD
economics (capitalism)
editing
education and education issues
Edward Bernays
EHS Corporation
electric cars
Ellem
engineering
ETD
"Fascism for Beginners"
feminism
Feodor Dostoevsky
food and cooking
French (language)
FUSE Gallery
geekdom
General Motors
George Orwell
George W. Bush
Google
gun control
HCI [Human-Computer Interaction]
health issues
Heliocentric
heraldry
Heritage Foundation
history and historical issues
history and historical issues (1950s)
history and historical issues (1960s)
history and historical issues (19th C.)
history and historical issues (20th C.)
history and historical issues (Arabic)
history and historical issues (Byzantine)
history and historical issues (Greek)
history and historical issues (medieval)
history and historical issues (Victorian Era)
HTML
humour (black)
humour (computer)
humour (gaming)
humour (political)
humour (SCA)
humour (sexual)
humour (sick)
humour (Slashdot)
humour (workplace)
individualism (philosophy, American)
intellectual property and related issues
Internet and Internet issues
Iraq
James Dobson
Japan
Jaques Derrida
Jello Biafra
Jerry Falwell
John Donne
John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
Joseph Goguen
Katha Pollitt
KMFDM
Knute (Skippy, James Kennedy)
language geekery
Libertarianism
linguistics
LiveJournal
London [Ontario]
Marie Curie
Marshall McLuhan
Martha Stewart
MarvinMouse
media and media issues
memorials
Microsoft
Ministry (band)
minutiae
moderation system
monogamy
Moral Majority
MPAA
MSDSs
music
Nash Jewellers
Neil Randall
New York City
Notes From Underground
NRDC
OHIP [Ontario Health Insurance Plan]
Osama bin Laden
OSes [Operating Systems]
OSes (Linux)
OSes (Windows)
OSes (Solaris)
OxyContin
Panda (Jeff Stan, Jeff Timbrell)
Peter Crisp
PDF
pedestrian issues
Pennsic
personal debt
phreaking
Pierre Trudeau
politics
politics (Canada)
politics (car)
politics (gender)
politics (marriage)
politics (sexual)
politics (US)
politics (world)
"Politics and the English Language"
polyamory
poverty and poverty issues
power and power issues (lobbying)
privatization
programming
public and social policy (drugs)
public and social policy (financial, monetary)
public and social policy (medicare)
public and social policy (public works)
public and social policy (welfare and social assistance)
public and social policy (women's issues)
publishing
race relations
radio
relationship issues
religion
religion (Islam)
REM (band)
reproductive issues
rhetoric
RIAA
Robert Herrick
Robert Jensen
Robert M. Young
Saddam Hussein
satire (social)
SCA
science and technology
Scientology
September 11th
sex
SF [Speculative/Science Fiction]
SF Eye Magazine
SGML
Sian (Barbara Slade)
SIGDOC [Special Interest Group on Design Of Communication, see ACM]
Slashdot
smoking (tobacco)
smoking (marijuana)
"Song of Myself"
structured documentation
Stuart Hood & Litza Janz
"Taklamakan"
telephony
Terry Winograd
The Nation
Toronto
Toxic Sludge Is Good For You
TTC [Toronto Transit Commission]
UI and UI issues
UN
University of Waterloo
University of Western Ontario
Village Voice
Visual Basic
Voynich Manuscript
W. Edwards Deming
Walt Whitman
War on Drugs
Winston Smith
W.P. Kinsella
World Bank
writing
writing (technical)
writing (fiction)
writing (journalism)
writing (poetry)
Zora Neale Hurston


Endnote: The point of this is, of course, to sort of revisit Rustin's entry from some time ago on subject competency. Besides giving people a look at exactly what is here, buried in the (copious quantities of) back issues, the other point of doing these indices is to give myself more consciousness of exactly what sorts of things I talk about, and what I can talk about.

Howzabout ranked by frequency?

[perfessor multigeek]

It'd be fascinating to see these with frequency rankings and interassociations.

A is very frequent but turns up in brief entries. L and Q rank low but are always seen together. F turns up very rarely but when it does it refers to at least four hundred words of text.

Numbers! Stats! Happy, happy, joy, joy!

-Rustin

Re:Howzabout ranked by frequency?

[Interrobang]

Uh, so, do you have a recommendation for an easy way of doing that, or am I supposed to spend countless hours hand-tabulating statistics? No thanks! I could be, you know, writing and stuff, which, frankly, fills me with far more joy than counting things.

You are, of course, more than welcome to do your own statistical analyses of my index entries, if it turns you on, although if it does, I suggest immediate professional help...