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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