Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Josh Aas writes that Macalester College has switched to Firefox in its computer labs. I can only imagine what it would mean for Firefox usage at Harvard if it became the official browser in our computer labs. As DrunkenBatman notes on his post about Microsoft Office (see the section on "Interface"), users get attached to [...]
Michael Behe's editorial in today's New York Times uses rather unscientific methods to justify intelligent design:
The strong appearance of design allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply [...]
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
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Tuesday, February 8, 2005
From Matt Yglesias comes an interesting website on Pyongyang's subway system. While the public system seems relatively small (only 17 stations), there are indications that the secret military subway system is far larger:
The extent of the secret system can be guessed by the number
of trains purchased from Changchun, more than twice the minimum number
needed [...]
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Jason Lurie writes in yesterday's Crimson about an increase in the number of cases of student plagiarism coming before the Ad Board. While he rightly suggests that faculty members found guilty of having plagiarized should be punished, he attempts to blame them for the increase:
In each case, Harvard took no public (or as best as [...]
Friday, February 18, 2005
Upgraded to WordPress 1.5. Since I had already done of the hard work when I switched to a beta build late last month, the upgrade was ridiculously easy.
So I decided to make it harder, by moving the blog into the root directory of the site. As a result, you can now access the blog at [...]