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The article discusses contending expectations when speaking and writing to a group and use of formal language and have information not possessed by readers and audiences. Topics discussed include decision of car companies on not providing spare tires, role of research in presentations and speeches, and informativeness of formal presentations.

This article discusses the use of Ruby and its built-in XML pull parser to present an alternative approach to XML transformations. The DOM parser is the best known XML parser because it exposes content and structure through a Document Object Model (DOM) API. An XML document is treated as a tree of nodes in this approach. Programs may read or alter the document by selecting, adding, or modifying nodes once a document has been parsed. A W3C specification defines the DOM API and various DOM parsers present a means for validating a document against a schema or DTD.

In this impressive and formally versatile debut, Johnson places the lyric in dialogue with a host of nonpoetic forms, among them diagrams, numbered lists, and maps. Johnson calls attention to his own agency in inhabiting language, "In this moment I realize I have a level of control", framing his practice as a poetics of intervention. The work is filled with self-aware poems like this one, which reflect on their own philosophical underpinnings, and Johnson's formal experimentation compliments the poems, involving and implicating the reader in their critique of linguistic hierarchies. [Extracted from the article]

The author discusses the modeling of structures manually for computer graphics applications. She relates the modeling to systems that are based on formal grammars. She explores the Lindenmayer system (L-system) that applies multiple rules simultaneously in each iteration step. She notes that this parallel string-rewriting mechanism of the production procedure makes it possible to realistically describe the development of branching structures. The author concludes that the L-system is a great example of how innovations of a very distant field, like linguistics, can be utilized in computer graphics.