Monthly Archives: December 2005

How to Handle Java Finalization’s Memory-Retention Issues

How to Handle Java Finalization’s Memory-Retention Issues

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Propositions | Uncertain

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 “immanentizes the eschaton” – almost without exception and perhaps even … Continue reading

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thetyee.ca Free Wireless Fever

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 … Continue reading

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Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don’t change.

Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don’t change.

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EdTechPost: An Evaluation of Open Source CMS Stressing Adaptation Issues

EdTechPost: An Evaluation of Open Source CMS Stressing Adaptation Issues

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EdTechPost: Unicon provides Sakai ‘Test Drive’ sites

EdTechPost: Unicon provides Sakai ‘Test Drive’ sites

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

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

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Easterbrook on 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 … Continue reading

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

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

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EdTechPost: Why does ‘Freesound’ succeed when so many learning object repositories fail?

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 … Continue reading

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Online Rights Canada

Online Rights Canada

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What I Learned by Teaching Real Analysis

What I Learned by Teaching Real Analysis

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Introductory Economic Analysis

Introductory Economic Analysis

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Introductory Economic Analysis

Introductory Economic Analysis

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Declan Butler, reporter � %u2018Thin blogs%u2019, RSS and %u2019social bookmarking%u2019

Declan Butler, reporter � %u2018Thin blogs%u2019, RSS and %u2019social bookmarking%u2019

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Information20Theory2C20Excess20Entropy20and20Statistical20Complexity

Information20Theory2C20Excess20Entropy20and20Statistical20Complexity

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Squashed Philosophers

Squashed Philosophers– Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein

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Interactive Java Applets

Interactive Java Applets

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GodelBook

One morething to look at over the holidays

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

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

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