All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

Did Justice Clarence Thomas Really Say It?:

As Atrios and Ignatz say, if this is true, it’s a very big deal: An Alabama SC justice claims, according to a Birmingham News reporter, that Clarence Thomas told him: [A] judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds…

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supreme court justices have one job to hear cases of the court and in that job they do not reference their personal opinion or beliefs, they

reference the constitution, case law, and its interpretation. many people confuse some references to god and interpretation in the constitution, let me assure you… the constitution does not mention god at all, and few if any other documents in u.s. history do in any sense other than in the universalist sense of people likeThomas Jefferson

and Joseph Priestley

Literary tests for a digital world:
The Information and Communications Technology literacy assessment is intended to measure students’ ability to manage exercises like sorting e-mail messages.
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is this something we really want measured by testing?

Ethics for the Robot Age:
Jordan Pollack argues that the ethical questions surrounding robotics ŠŠ should robots carry weapons, how closely should humans and robots be integrated, etc. ŠŠ should receive much more attention now before the robot revolution hits.

interesting…. some of the questions are central to our consideration of what constitutes an ethical subject, combined with our notions of control.

Ethics for the Robot Age:
Jordan Pollack argues that the ethical questions surrounding robotics ŠŠ should robots carry weapons, how closely should humans and robots be integrated, etc. ŠŠ should receive much more attention now before the robot revolution hits.

interesting…. some of the questions are central to our consideration of what constitutes an ethical subject, combined with our notions of control.

Google comfort button : ‘The infamous “I…:
Google comfort button: ‘The infamous “I feel lucky” is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.’ [via visakopu.net]

This is very interesting…. it seems to me to be sort of like when you walk down the street and something is missing, like a store closed, or perhaps they moved the newspaper machines or something, just something ‘not quite right’.

Researchers discover European genetic twist: printer friendly version:
It is particularly surprising that the same genetic element should promote fertility and longevity since most organisms are obliged to follow a strategy either of breeding fast during short lives or of living longer and having fewer children. “Usually people think of there being a trade-off between fertility and longevity,” said Alan Rogers, a population geneticist at the University of Utah.

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ok…. wouldn’t a better explanation of this be that with increased fertility there is a greater chance to spread the gene and thus it should grow as a percentage of population over time?

Bare Bones Guide to HTML:
Award winning resource for HTML development, available in multiple languages.
this could be handy

Development Gateway Launches Software Tool For International Relief and Development Coordination:
January 11, 2005 – The Development Gateway Foundation has launched an open source software tool that organizations can use to coordinate international relief and development efforts. Called the Local Projects Database (LPD), this tool can be downloaded from the web. See http://lpd.sourceforge.net/

very interesting……

i’ve finally put up my movies that i’ve made for quite some time at http://pictures.tmttlt.com/movies/ there are some interesting images and some interesting clips, and stuff.

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