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Templeton Foundation

Templeton Foundation “Power of Purpose” Essay by Augie Turak

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Plugin Peeve

When pages like THIS require a plugin, after you click the plugin icon, the browser says “After installing the plugin, Click here”, but the installation process requires you to close all apps, including the browser.

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TheStar.com – Just give me that old-time atheism!

TheStar.com – Just give me that old-time atheism! Salman Rushdie replies in the Toronto Star to Dylan Evans The 21st Century Atheistin the Guardian. Evans identifies religion as “a kind of art, which only a child could mistake for reality … Continue reading

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Is the “Learning Object” King naked?

This item by Scott Leslie and its referent sound the death knell for a term that would have been useful if it hadn’t been taken so seriously. I have long argued in particular that the idea of collecting “Learning Objects” … Continue reading

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Definitional Drift: Math Goes Postmodern

Definitional Drift: Math Goes Postmodern says something that I have for decades been telling my students, but ends with an important point that misses the point of what math is all about.

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thetyee.ca Corky Evans on Making the Woods Work

thetyee.ca Corky Evans on Making the Woods Work

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Wiring Java Applications with Spring

Wiring Java Applications with Spring is an article about a way of implementing “Inversion of Control” or “Dependency Injection” which sounds as though it may be related to what I needed to do when implementing Items that kept track of … Continue reading

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AlterNet: War on Iraq: Galloway Goes To Washington

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Galloway Goes To Washington

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The Laws of Identity

The Laws of Identity

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CETIS-The Case for Creative Commons Textbooks

According to a recent survey, University of California students now spend 40 percent more on textbooks than they did six years ago. This paper argues that colleges and universities may be able to significantly reduce these costs by creating a … Continue reading

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Authentication and Identification

In a recent article Stephen Downes makes some good points about the lack of benefit to the user provided by various schemes of “authentication”, but in doing so he slanders authentication by using it’s name to refer to something better … Continue reading

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Bloglines | My Feeds

Bloglines | My Feeds

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my weblog

This is a silly self-referential posting

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Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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