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Vagueness and Ambiguity - A little test to help distinguish vagueness from ambiguity (from San Jose University's critical thinking pages).
La mécanique des vagues et phénomnes liés - TPE sur la mécanique des vagues : comment naissent les vagues et comment évoluent-elles ?
Vagueness and Identity - Article by Loretta Torrago presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Makes the surprising argument that vagueness in identity statements is incompatible with vagueness of constitution.
Vagueness - Article in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, by Roy Sorensen.
Russell on Vagueness - Online text of Russell's 1923 article.
Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox - A resource for philosophers and other researchers, including a bibliography on vagueness, plus lists of online articles, homepages of people working in the area and related external resources.
Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox - Site maintained by Justin Needle. Extensive links, and excerpts from his PhD thesis `Ruling Out the Sorites: Vagueness, Rules, Wittgenstein'.
Where Demonstratives Meet Vagueness: Possible Languages - Article by Adam Morton, which appeared in Proc. Aristotelian Society. Argues that vagueness and demonstratives are connected, by means of constructing artificial languages in which the relationships are manufactured.
Les Vagues - Piscine à vagues Valras Plage.
Vagueness, Semantics, and the Language of Thought - Article by Richard DeWitt.

Vagueness - Ambiguity is one way in which the meanings of words and phrases can be unclear, but there is another way, which is different from ambiguity: vagueness. One example of a vague concept is the concept of a heap.
Void for vagueness - Void for vagueness is a legal concept in American constitutional law, whereby a civil statute or, more commonly, a criminal statute is adjudged unconstitutional when it is so vague that persons "of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application," as the United States Supreme ...
Achieving Vagueness - Achieving Vaguess is the title of The Flaws's debut album. It was released on September 14, 2007.
Supervaluationism - In logic, supervaluationism is a semantics for dealing with irreferential singular terms and vagueness. Consider the sentence 'Pegasus likes licorice' in which the name 'Pegasus' fails to refer.
Timothy Chambers - ... philosopher who has written a number of articles which have appeared in the journals Mind (2000, 2001), the Monist (1998), Philosophy (2001), the Aristotelian Society Proceedings(2000), and Ratio (1999). His research interests include Hilary Putnam, time travel, the Ontological Argument, the Doomsday Argument and the semantics of vagueness.