] We'll we've gone and done it. In answer to countless
] requests, photo pages no longer use a Macromedia Flash
] wrapper to display photos.

'bout damn time...

Flickr removes annoying flash wrapper.

Mike the Usurper wrote:
] That's not science. Science is all about how things work.
] This is anti-science. "Intelligent Design" says this is too
] big for us to wrap our little brains around."

I have always seen this in the opposite light. Science says you don't know anything to start with, and you only learn things through experimentation. What you can't prove through experimentation you don't know. Intelligent Design says we can know, or rather we're going to go ahead a make a favorite assumption about how things work.

I agree that teaching ID is going to produce stupid kids. Most people don't understand the difference between a law, a theory, and a hypothesis (which is one of the things the ID people are taking advantage of in making their arguements). If we institutionalize the teaching of a popular hypothesis we undermine the whole scientific method. We're going to produce kids who beleive that popularity is truth.

RE: Evolution Dominates Campaign in Pa. Town

] C-SPAN zealously and actively monitors and protects its
] intellectual property, including the video it
] produces and C-SPAN registered service marks and logos.
] C-SPAN is a private, nonprofit organization.
] It does not, and never has, received any government
] funding. C-SPAN video is not in the public domain.
]
] C-SPAN does not permit the following uses:
]
] Any posting or streaming from an Internet site

The above is even if you have a license. Its your government, but its not your CSPAN.

This was Brendan Greeley's point in the podcasting discussion at BlogNashville. We need to be able to retransmit and remix the content of our government's public discourse. This means that C-SPAN is obsolete. We need a non-profit organization with recording devices in both houses of Congress collecting data and publishing it in the public domain. We need it now.

Its not your C-SPAN!

] backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's new developer network,
] providing content feeds for anyone to build with.
] Alternatively, share your ideas on new ways to use BBC
] content. This is your BBC. We want to help you play.

Its my BBC even though I live in the states. Its NOT my PBS, my NPR, and its certainly not my CSPAN (although they don't receive public funding).

BBC Backstage

] A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video,
] map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and
] true.

Kevin Kelly is basically still running the Whole Earth Catalog from his weblog. And its still interesting.

Cool Tools

] Dimensions change drastically as your clump grows from a
] fraction of an inch to a monstrous freak of nature.

Boingboing keeps talking about this so I picked up a copy. Its only $20. If you were ever wondering what it would be like to take LSD while Japaneese, this is your chance. Its a happy, non-violent game with great music and interesting, funny worlds to explore. I recommend it. That is unless you have a problem with flashbacks.

Katamari Damacy

] Downloadable and very printable, I find these PDFs
] extremely useful.

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs

] I have no idea what this is. I can't find anything
] similar on any google map referenced sites. It
] doesn't show up on terraserver and I live nearby so
] I know there are no towers in that area.

A grid of alien space craft comes to take their fountain of youth back.

Google Sightseeing - UFO

] Although the labour market has clearly been improving,
] companies may still feel there is an abundance of workers
] to draw on. By this stage in an economic recovery, the US
] economy would typically generate 300,000 jobs a month.
]
] But even April's bumper gain of 274,000 jobs failed to
] match that. The monthly average for the past year has
] been just 181,000. The labour force participation rate
] though rising recently to 66 per cent is still well down
] on its peak of 67.3 per cent in April 2000.

There is a lot of journalist fluff in this article. Scan for numbers. The job growth last month beat estimates, but that doesn't mean it was particularly good. If numbers like that are sustained for a while it would be a positive sign. However, there are still fewer jobs in the economy today then there were in March of 2001.

FT.com / World - Balance of power shifts to the employers

] William McCardle was arrested by federal authorities in
] 1867 for writing and publishing a series of editorials in
] his Mississippi newspaper. The editorials were sharply
] critical of Reconstruction. McCardle sought a writ of
] habeas corpus on the ground that the Reconstruction Acts
] under which he was arrested were unconstitutional.
] McCardle appealed to the Supreme Court under an 1867
] congressional statute that conferred jurisdiction on
] appeal to the High Court. After hearing arguments in the
] case, but prior to announcing a decision, the Congress
] withdrew its 1867 act conferring jurisdiction.

Ex parte McCardle (1869) []