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August 28, 2005
"Heat is not made of tiny hot things."
What better to start off this blog's design category, than a link to Daniel Dennet's op-ed in today's NYT regarding the pseudo-theory of "Intelligent Design."
Beyond correctly stating that there is no science in Intelligent Design, Dennet makes the point that "[t]he designs found in nature are nothing short of brilliant, but the process of design that generates them is utterly lacking in intelligence of its own."
But nature has (at least) two things going for it that humans don't: a nearly unfathomable amount of time in which to test countless prototypes. We, however, will have to put some intelligence in our designs. More on that as the category develops...
Posted by ttalbot at 3:31 PM
August 26, 2005
Flu:1 TJT:0
Never fails, you're cranking on the code, much of life already on hold, and just when you're ready to really come up for air and dash for the finish line, you get sick and spend a week on the couch. Yuck. It's going around LA. I finally got it. I don't want it anymore. 8 days of this. Enough.
Just had to get that, and it, off my chest.
Posted by ttalbot at 3:07 PM
August 12, 2005
Bloggo-Linko-Bloggo
We've gotten Sandvox back to a state where we can publish Karelia's website directly from the app. This is a (logical) commitment Dan and I had made to ourselves and the major reason, by far, why new posts on the Sandvox Weblog, and this one for that matter, haven't been as frequent as I'd like.
But, thankfully, that milestone was reached. You should start seeing more frequent postings as things continue to firm up. It's also a great testbed for us, as it should be. Today's update adds permalinks, commenting, and trackbacks. Let's see how they work.
Posted by ttalbot at 4:08 PM