A nice one from Dilbert yesterday:
Entries from April 2011
Intelligent File Naming
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April 24, 2011 at 8:51am
by Psybertron
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Templeton for Martin Rees
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April 7, 2011 at 4:48am
by Psybertron
The usual furore when Templeton awards its £1m dollar prize to a prominent scientist. This time it’s Martin Rees. As usual I think this “Quisling” remark says more about Dawkins than anything. Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and one of the most high-profile scientists in the aggressively pro-science, anti-religion ‘new atheist’ movement, once called Rees [...]
Excluded Middles
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April 6, 2011 at 6:23am
by Psybertron
If there are two competing versions of the truth, almost certainly neither is true. David Mitchell soap-box piece from Guardian Comment is Free.
Grayling Heads the BHA
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April 5, 2011 at 7:17am
by Psybertron
Good to see Anthony Grayling appointed president of the BHA (British Humanist Association). He may not be my favourite philosopher, but he is streets ahead of Dawkins when it comes to understanding the arguments. For the first time, I see I am not alone in seeing Dawkins as part of the problem. Andris Rudzitis and [...]
Bandwidth of Trust
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April 5, 2011 at 4:45am
by Psybertron
Seems I’m not alone. Karl-Erik Sveiby, founding father of knowledge management, says: Trust is the bandwidth of communication. I like that. Thanks to David Gurteen for the link. Interestingly, Sveiby also records aboriginal Tex Skuthorpe (in Treading Lightly) saying: We don’t have a word for [knowledge]. Our land is our knowledge, we walk on the [...]
