Michael Boyle's weblog
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One of the things I’m going to miss most about moving away from here is that in the park in front of our house there are 6 beautiful sakura. When they bloom – for only about a week every year – they enliven the whole neighbourhood.
the only coherent contribution that I have seen supporting the NYTimes.com decision to start charging for content: The Times they is a’chargin’. He correctly notes that the Times should, in order to be successful, do several things to mitigate against the negative public effect of hiding articles behind a pay-wall. For me, absent those modifications the new policy is a negative one for both the web and for the Times – but if they were to take his advice seriously, I would definitely reconsider my feelings about this kind of thing.
has a good piece on evolution vs intelligent design by H Allen Orr.
The Alan Lomax Database is now available on the web. Lomax, if you aren’t aware, was obsessive about scouring the US and around the world for authentic folk musical expressions and recording them for posterity. To have this available on the web makes the world a better place. [via Mobtown Blues]
