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How to Handle Java Finalization’s Memory-Retention Issues

Propositions | Uncertain is an essay in which the thesis and perhaps 90% of the sentences are false but the essence is true. It is not science but religion that “immantizes the eschaton” - almost without exception and perhaps even especially at its most “mystical”. And to accuse Lennon of this offense demonstrates a lack [...]

Should we get thetyee.ca Free Wireless in Vancouver?
I think so! Not so much for the business traveller (who probably has adequate access at hotel and meeting place) or the poor (who probably don’t have laptops and more likely use free fixed community access points) but for tourists and the rest of us who suffer the [...]

Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don’t change.

EdTechPost: An Evaluation of Open Source CMS Stressing Adaptation Issues

EdTechPost: Unicon provides Sakai ‘Test Drive’ sites

What Good Is Religion? By Richard Dawkins — Beliefnet.com

– This old (2001) article by Gregg Easterbrook at Beliefnet.com attempts to refute Dawkins.
But apparently Easterbrook expects his audience to be so ignorant as to be convinced by a primarily and unabashedly ad hominem argument:
“Which brings us to the first problem with Dawkins’s positions: he is arrogant.”
…Oh well (sigh) what else?
next we have the ignorant [...]

beliefnet: Interview with Richard Dawkins–evolution intelligent design Darwin selfish gene religion science God atheism spiritual Sheahen

Scott Leslie asks EdTechPost: Why does ‘Freesound’ succeed when so many learning object repositories fail? - and of course for me the interest is in the second clause. I have claimed to have ideas about what is wrong with LOR’s so maybe I should look at this and see if we’re on the same page.

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What I Learned by Teaching Real Analysis

Introductory Economic Analysis

Introductory Economic Analysis

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Interactive Java Applets

One morething to look at over the holidays

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Dave Winer Proposes to use URLs for Digital Identity