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The New Yorker

May 24, 2005 by Michael Boyle

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]

Inside Higher Ed:

May 19, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Toward a Transparent Classroom [via Dangerous Meta].

Paul Ford,

May 18, 2005 by Michael Boyle

in his great Ftrain.com: The Mechanical End.

If you were going to compile a historical list of the top 10 examples of writing that is native to the web, Ftrain.com would certainly be somewhere near the top of the list. What other sites would be on the list?

Well, they’ve gone and done it.

May 17, 2005 by Michael Boyle

NYTimes.com to Offer Subscription Service. They’re putting MORE stuff behind a pay wall, not less. Discouraging, and I think penny wise but pound foolish. And I guess this voids Times’ pretensions as an organ devoted (partially) to serving the public interest.