Brad Templeton's Blog

I usually don't link to other people's blogs, but this is a good point that is worth expanding on.

The ability to discern the truth is perhaps the most important skill anyone can ever be taught. Creationists do us an unwitting favor when they insist 'Just a Theory'. It is just a theory, everything is science is just a theory. We should be inculcating our children, not with scientific platitudes, however detailed or certain, but with great and hard won process of scientific acquisition of knowledge. With the ability to use science, use math, use simple uncomplicated things that are hardly worth ten questions on a multiple choice exam, and hardly anyone knows to separate fakirs from researchers at a glance.

Ask ET: Corrupt Technologies in Evidence Presentation

an amusing, and interesting draft on a guide for what to look for in evaluating presentation material.

Highlights some of the difficulties in assessing credibility, as well as communicating effectively and honestly.

http://thinkcycle.org/

An interesting project. I am a student of design, and of new organizational technology. I haven't carefully investigated yet, but this may be of significance.

Google Search add-on

Google Desktop Search is a wondeful thing that you all should be using already(if you're on windows). One of it's weaknesses for hep multifaceted people like myself is that it's constrained to certain nice predictable file types, like microsoft office files, and .txt. But there are many other textual files, like .logs and xml and code you may write. This add-on allows you to specify which files GDS opens in it's scans of your hard drive.

Quite nifty and ratchets up the usefulness of the thing quite a bit. Now all it needs to do is spider network drives and start indexing meta data and labels better, allow constrained exhaustive searches, and increase the maximum size of file parsed.

Regular expressions are unneccesary but would sure excite a lot of people.

AMD announces Turion mobile CPUs

to leaven the realism of dobbs, here is some exciting news. AMD in the front as usual, pushing capabilities.

Your box rox, and will be mobile as well.