Stange's Cyber Space Shuttle
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Updated 2008/05/16
| 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. So I’ve decided to leave SCSS up as a place to post my personal recommendations, a place to broadcast my current enthusiasms—for anyone who cares, anyone who finds congruence with my (perhaps) quirky tastes. The list of links will be much, much smaller and will change much, much more frequently—and (I hope) change long before they wink out of existence. Peace in complexity, Ken |
Current 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 Bullshit Reporter: This web site is a corrective to the currently popular (and vicious) creationist propaganda film. We live in era where there are many people trying to reverse the advances of The Enlightment. Link: Expelled Exposed 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 |