Dreamer Scholar Pragmatist: April 2008

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

I believe college students are becoming more aware that what they are being taught is more theory then science in a lot of cases. It appears Ben Stein is advocating for presenting the evidence and letting the intelligent community arrive at the appropriate conclusion. It would be a shame if we squelch good science just because it doesn't support the current paradigm of the scientific elite. I think we might have seen something like that happen in other places where freedom is non-existent. There are a lot of dictators who have tried that. Look out - society is pretty resistant. Enjoy!

I find the premise of this movie very interesting. I am amazed at the resistance to having a variety of intellectual viewpoints on a college campus. I thought that was what college campuses were all about. I am surprised at the responses in this trailer by the "Evolutionists." Aren't these the same people (aka the modern intelligencia) who told us to have open minds? I am in for quite a weekend - Friday night debate between Michael Shermer and Denish D'Souza and Saturday premiere of Expelled. That might be intellectual overload.

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Web Worker Daily » Archive GroupTweet Enhances Twitter «

One of the persistent complaints about Twitter is that it doesn’t
offer any sort of “group” functionality: messages from everyone you
follow come in as a big heap, and anything you say goes to all of your
followers. GroupTweet provides a solution for the second half of this complaint, by layering distribution groups on top of Twitter.

Using GroupTweet is simple: create a separate account on Twitter for
your group, and have everyone in your group follow that account. Then
whenever that account gets a direct message, it pushes it back out for
everyone to see. I expect to be using this to share statuses among some
distributed teams I’m working with.

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