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Mark Johnson is Associate Professor of Theology at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) and author of the “Tommaso d’Aquino Newsletter and RSS newsfeed.” He keeps his Curriculum vitae, projects list, image gallery and blog on this site. More…

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Tuesday
01Dec2009

PIMS = science of the dead???

So I’m typing an e-mail to a prospective PhD student and wanted to use the acronym PIMS (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies [Toronto, Canada]), but wasn’t altogether sure that this student would automatically know what “PIMS” meant. Figuring that the student might just punch in “PIMS” to a search engine, I fired up Safari, and in the Google search box I typed: PIMS. The very first return was a nice and tidy PIMS hyperlink, with no further comment or description. Heartened by my efficiency, I clicked the link thinking, “well, the student will get what he needs easily enough.” Then my clicked link brought me here (click on the picture below):

Whaaaaaaaa? I then noticed that the hyperlink was to http://pims.edu, and not my beloved http://pims.ca. Life is good.

PS: What the heck to you think is in the Picture Gallery in the photo???

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Scientia • Sollertia • Servitium
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December 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLupambulus Berolinen.

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