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Being a word-freak from way back I used to scorn those who actually "used" a thesaurus, or a similar book of synonyms to enhance web-searching.
How the prideful hath fallen. The inside of my skull still resembles the night-sky over the desert, but to my horror, black holes are popping up all
over it, each one being where a cluster of word-galaxies has blinked out forever.
So does any 'baker know of a browser, good bad or indifferent that has a thesaurus on tap to save me from fumbling with a book? Now if Google had one ...
Cool Thesaurus
http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/
For Java fans [hippo, Nov 23 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Moby Thesaurus
http://elza.lpi.ac.ru/cgi-bin/mth
My favorite thesaurus of all time. Alas, this link is shaky at best. It used to be reliable. [bristolz, Dec 15 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
AikSauris, based on Moby Thesaurus
http://aiken.clan11.../aiksaurus/012demo/
There is no peer for this thesaurus, imho (other than Moby Thesaurus). Frankly, I'm surprised that this was not already linked to by one of the demi-weazened [bristolz, Dec 15 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Moby Thesaurus Resources
http://www.dcs.shef...esearch/ilash/Moby/
Grady Ward's spectacular thesaurus. [bristolz, Dec 15 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Javascript Roget's search
javascript:Qr=docum...&words='+escape(Qr)
You can place this as a bookmark in most browsers. [bookworm, Dec 15 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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hippo linked to my favorite thesaurus of all thesaureds. I hoped that the principle behind this item would be someday applied to an Othello application. |
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The Cool Thesaurus is fascinating and a masterpiece of design , but there's a flaw. |
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The shimmering effect is elegant but baffling to those with certain eye defecrs. |
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How would the principle be applied to an Othello application? |
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egnor: as a way to play ahead. Hover the cursor at a point and watch the game play. Move the cursor to hover at another node, and the game play follows suit.
Why not just play the game? Well, I do, but I just feel that the visual display would be KEWL! |
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FWIW, I open Word and use its Thesaurus and spell checker. It'd be nice to have these built into a browser, but building them into the OS would be better. |
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Building it into the OS would *not* be better. I don't want to sacrifice storage space or performance just because other people have vocabulary deficits. |
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I believe what phoenix is searching for would better be implemented as a separate thesaurus program that could be called by the user or by other applications--the equivalent of ispell. |
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