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Dear
Shuttle Visitor:
I originally put SCSS online back in 1996!—back when dinosaurs
trod the earth and effective search engines had yet to evolve.
Its raison d’etre was
to serve as a useful index of especially impressive or comprehensive or
interesting sites dealing with art and science—and, admittedly,
some of my own idiosyncratic interests. But the evolution of the
beast called the Internet has made such web pages mere vestigial organs.
Nature is profligate, even Cyber-Nature. The proliferation of
sites, and the way they pop in and out of existence like the
physicists’ virtual particles, has made the maintenance of any such index site an onerous
chore for a mere human. And it is a totally unnecessary labour,
for now we have Google.
The effectiveness of Google is such that even personal bookmarks seem
to be on the way to extinction. Why create a personal Web address
book, when you can look up any address just as fast using a universal
Web address book?
So now Web pages that just consist of links are relegated back to mere
personal recommendations. But perhaps I shouldn’t use the
qualifier ‘mere’! Personal recommendations still have
some value—if one shares the interests of the recommender.
I’ve decided to leave SCSS up as a place to post my long-standing
personal recommendations, a place to broadcast my enthusiasms—for
anyone who cares, anyone who finds congruence with my (perhaps) quirky
tastes. However, the list of links will be much, much smaller and
will much, much less frequently.
The reason the Shuttle
now will be updated only occasionally is because I now use "Your Man
Friday's Ideas" to post my current enthusiasms every week. Please
check out Man Friday. It is
updated every (surprise) Friday, and one can join an email list where
each update will arrive in you inbox.
Peace in complexity,
Ken
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Ongoing Enthusiasms:
Good Stuff to Read:
This web site is one my wife (an
addicted web surfer who refuses to go into rehab)
is using as her latest excuse for not working on preparing lectures for
her courses. Still, it is a worthwhile endeavour. Some
great, thought-provoking reading here.
Link: Readable
Bits
Good Science Reporting to Listen To:
This web site has the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation's online audio files from features presented on one of the
best, most intelligent radio shows reporting science in all of North
America.
Link: CBC's Quirks and Quarks
Science Program Audio Files Archive
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Amazing Site For New Ideas:
Twenty minute
(max) videos of lectures from the most eclectic conference ever
conceived. And all available to everyone with no registration
fee. Ideas want to be free, and this site is about freeing them.
Link: TED
ALSO
Please check out Cybershuttle's replacement: Man
Friday. It is updated every Friday, and one can choose to
join an email list where each update will arrive in you inbox.
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